Oolite Bulletins

I've been working on Far Arm ships texturing, mainly fiddling with Oolite materials.
Here are some results (expect Far Arm shps 2.0 - normalmapped release soon), click on the pics to see 'em bigger:

Tanker


the mighty Titan


A couple of more atmospheric shots:

Scow (not so 2D viewport anymore )


Cruiser

Nice work Z!

nice work. Is the Titan supposed to be some kinda mega Viper variant?

Thanks .

Killer Wolf wrote:

Is the Titan supposed to be some kinda mega Viper variant?

Not really. Even if it ends looking like one, the concept comes from elsewhere.
See here:
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Far_Arm_Ships
and here:
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Far_Arm_Titan

Getting to make the Baakili look more like its description, thanks to 1.74.x material model / shaders:

Feeling a lack of love for the screenshot thread, so I took one of my own. Quite boring, but it shows the new Deep Horizons, sun, and the excellent Deepspace textures on my Mk III Cobbie.



On second thought, how does one resize pics? I found a website, but it reduces the quality considerably.

Download GIMP (if you haven’t already got it) and resize them there first.
GIMP is really good for playing with pics… and other stuff.

Or Photobucket does resizing quite well.

El Viejo wrote:

Download GIMP (if you haven’t already got it) and resize them there first.
GIMP is really good for playing with pics… and other stuff.

Are you completely insane? (don't answer that)

Gimp is a bit overkill to resize an image. That's like saying buy the latest ironass AlienWare gaming system worth $3000 to play the original Elite!

I use the freeware image view IrfanView, it does a pretty good job. Also, saving the images as PNGs will ensure better quality, you start to get lots of artifacts in the image when using JPGs.
XNView is another good (and also free) image viewer that is growing on me like a baby trumble.

Can I just say while I'm here, some of this artwork is simply breathtaking btw. I'm utterly in awe. Fantastic work guys (and gals).

Oh! Very cool.

Thanks.

Ragged wrote:

This is Missy. She'd look even better if the game didn't scale up her images to the hight of the screen.

She could do with a stint at the NovaNice'n'Easy Tanning Salon, but I would.

Darkbee wrote:

Gimp is a bit overkill to resize an image.

Yeah… but GIMP is fun (and free). You can end up doing all sorts of stuff with it… like custom decals.

OneoftheLost wrote:

Feeling a lack of love for the screenshot thread,

Ha… any excuse to post a pic. How about a nice eclipse:

Who needs excuses? Nice eclipse
Hands up, I did pose this one a bit.
The Boa Clipper Bilbo Maru having just dropped out of hyperspace, passing a Space Bar with the planet in the distance.



(OXPs :- Boa II Clipper Class, Random Hits, System Redux (Capt Kev)

Nice shots .-)

El Viejo wrote:

Yeah… but GIMP is fun (and free). You can end up doing all sorts of stuff with it… like custom decals.

Don't get me wrong, I like Gimp. I never used to though, it's taken me a while to learn to "love" Gimp. My search for a simple image editor that supports transparency and layers has taken years, trying out (and rejecting) Gimp several times along the way. I loved Paint Shop Pro but didn't love it enough to pay for it. I also used Serif PhotoPlus along the way, another commercial program, but didn't like the proprietary format it saved in (which I couldn't use in anything else). Eventually, I gave up since I now try to run open source software where possible (I don't even buy many commercial games anymore; thank Aegidian for Oolite!), and so Gimp it is!