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Ha, don't talk to me about scaly finishes!

It's certainly not subtle, but that is sometimes good. And there is plenty of prior art - this Trans-Am being a nice (if OTT) example.

spud42 wrote:

what do you think? too much? might work if the pattern was smaller? or just a really bad idea?

Fine pattern details like this are only ever going to be seen, in-game, in the gallery. Which is fine, if that's what you want, but for 99% of actual encounters, it'll just look brown. Big, bold, and high-contrast patterns work best, I think: I'd say make the pattern much, much bigger!

bigger? not a problem... ha ha

took me 2 nights to figure out how to texture a model in wings! thats after the design flaw was spotted and fixed...

its not actually a Mulga snake skin but i only did a quick google for snakeskin .....and it is a brown snake after all...will try different size patterns and see how it looks. might not go for a snake skin after all.. you would not really see it in the actual game most of the time as Disembodied said. but hey someone was talking about a tartan ship!

I like the look.. as to reducing the pattern size, I think I'd have to see it to be able to compare.

An actual mulga snake pattern probably wouldn't stand out as well, even though they look quite nice. There's a lot of variation, of course, but here's a good example:

Looking at the picture that Diz posted, if you can get that red-yellow colour and colour proportion of a Mulga snake scale onto a scaley plate texture similar in size to Smiv's basic Moray rework, then it could look quite striking... er no pun intended

Also, so as not to infringe on the Moray's patented look, the scales could be more diamond in shape (as they are on the snake)

Just musing, as you would understand much better than me how much work that involves

spud42 wrote:

...but hey someone was talking about a tartan ship

Tartan can be quite blocky and contrasting, just ask the Bay City Rollers... oh, I see... OTT

now i know the scales are backwards but this is just to get an idea if this sort of thing would be better?

spud42 wrote:

now i know the scales are backwards but this is just to get an idea if this sort of thing would be better?

I think it would be better.. not thrilled by the colour, but guessing that was just for the sake of a quick'n'dirty test?

If you could match the shape of the mulga's scales though (big job, I know) it would be brilliant.

Way back, my Moray had fishy scales very much like these. See my post here on the Classic Ships thread for a pic and more info.

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Nice.. lots of little details there I like, too.. good job, sir!

Thanks dizzy, it doesent have the details of the original but it was way too complex to UV unwrap!!

now i need help gentlr folk.

im stuck again at converting this into a .dat file.

I have installed python 2.7.9 , i have the obj2datTexNorm.py script and i have exported from wings as a.obj with a .mtl file.

I have put the script in the folder with the model and when i run the script it gives a windows error of python is not a recognised command.
this is what i typed python obj2datTexNorm.py Mulga.obj

i looked online and it said to add python to the environmebt variables and i did so but it didnt help.
win 7 64 bit..

spud42 wrote:

python obj2datTexNorm.py Mulga.obj

Try this!

Rorschachhamster wrote:

spud42 wrote:

python obj2datTexNorm.py Mulga.obj

Try this!

cheers, i copied the line directly from the source but now i cant find it . must have been a wiki page i got that from because i searched the forums and couldnt find where i got that... now lets hope that it works for me this time. i couldnt get it to work on the other ship.

I:\########\Program Files\wings3d_1.5.3\Mulga>obj2datTexNorm.py Mulga.obj
Mulga.obj -> mulga.dat
Material library file: Mulga.mtl
Material Cube1_auv -> Cube1_auv.png
File does not provide texture coordinates! Materials will not be exported.
Done.

ok not sure but i think this isnt going to work........ the error message i got when trying to comvert wings model to dat.

Try to do it again, from externalizing the texture to exporting to .obj in wings. This means, of course, I don't have a clue, but this worked for me more than once...
Oh, and I would change the textures name into something like mulgatexture.png while externalizing, because of readability and compatibility with other oxps. If every oxp ship had that texture...