Oolite Bulletins

overmage wrote:

I suggest G6 and G8, those are so deserted mission-wise.

Okay, that seems sensible.

I'm going to rock the very foundation g6 was created on - or something like that in - classic movie trailer voice over style.

yeah, I was thinking of some sort of hunt, like a treasure hunt or something, maybe you have to look for clues for the next destination. that might be good fun.

I'm going to have a go at writing a mission, and I was wondering which galaxy to set it in?

those new thargoids look great!

The station in the background looks good too, where can I get hold of that?

except I think the boosters on the Anaconda look stuck on now (I'm going to go back and re-do that ship again - at some point).

@Ahruman, thanks for the link that looks very useful. And thanks for not telling me off for not checking the threads first

Thanks Ahruman. I'm just getting my head around this (I normally just model for TV and have never worried about converting to games), but yeah I realise now what the AO is and I did just bake it in the end (seeing as that was the most sensible thing to do - thought I'd give sensible a try). I've gon...

drew wrote:

Still think it was just done for laughs - which is a bit 'weak' for Trek.

I think it was done to get him to press the emergency release button, there by alerting the bridge crew to intruders, there by moving the story along at a decent pace. And....it was quite funny.

that looks really, really nice.

and to be fair, they do try and explain why it all looks different. Not sure if I should say - it might be considered a spoiler.

saw it today. I went to the cinema thinking it was going to be okay, not brilliant though. I was wrong thankfully - it's one of the best films I've seen in a long time.

Hi Thargoid,

Thanks for sorting this out. The Mosquito Trader was the first craft I ever did and at the time external views weren't even an option!

And thanks Hemlock for flying the ship, you're the first person I know who has, yippee.

yeah i think that's right. i just stuck a white texture on the ship and rendered the UVW map out then stuck it on top of my diffuse map in photoshop and now have this. looks quite nice:

what's the poly count on it?

I've gone and bought myself a new book and in it it says 'Ambient occlusion (AO) maps are an industry-standard method of baking subtle lighting information into models.' I've rendered the Asp I'm working on (no normals yet, and the diffuse map is nowhere near complete) with and without the AO: http:...

wow that looks really nice. you've captured the cheap and chunky look of the adder perfectly. I could tell what ship it was straight away.