Oolite Bulletins

Wohoo, looks great!

Sweet paintjob crow!

Cor! those latest screenies look amazing! and you say your only halfway through painting the texture? man if that was my work i'd have pushed it out in an oxp and filled about 6 pages of the screenshots thread with pics of it!

At scarecrow - that's a fantastic ship!

Is the domed cockpit using the flipped normals you described? If yes, excellent effect! Is that how it will appear in game?

I'm presuming (for those without shader support) that this is an un-shadery version of the ship - are you planning on adding eye candy bumps and glows at any point?

Keep up the fantastic work!

Aw shucks.

I'm finding the black and white paint job a bit dull though and the cockpit area needs mucho work still. I've remodelled and retextured the pilots now so they're improved, at least.

DH, yes I am intending on doing all the fancy eye-candy gubbins for it (shaders, normal map, specular etc). It's probably at that point I'll start badgering Griff for much help and advice

Also, yes that is the reversed normals effect that is still yet to be tested in the actual game. Theoretically it should work but until I see it with my own eyes, it's a "known unknown"!.

Crow

Scarecrow wrote:

I'm finding the black and white paint job a bit dull ...

I like the idea of black-and-white for the police, though ... maybe all it needs is a higher contrast between the stripes and the bodywork? And possibly a red jam-sandwich stripe behind the word "POLICE"?

Disembodied wrote:

Scarecrow wrote:

I'm finding the black and white paint job a bit dull ...

I like the idea of black-and-white for the police, though ... maybe all it needs is a higher contrast between the stripes and the bodywork? And possibly a red jam-sandwich stripe behind the word "POLICE"?

Nah, This is what you need.

Captain Hesperus

....It's .... colorful....

Captain Hesperus wrote:

Disembodied wrote:

Scarecrow wrote:

I'm finding the black and white paint job a bit dull ...

I like the idea of black-and-white for the police, though ... maybe all it needs is a higher contrast between the stripes and the bodywork? And possibly a red jam-sandwich stripe behind the word "POLICE"?

Nah, This is what you need.

Captain Hesperus

Ah yes, the "Battenburg" model of colouration...

Captain Hesperus wrote:

Nah, This is what you need.

Looks like a toned-down version of current Swedish livery.

Ahruman wrote:

Captain Hesperus wrote:

Nah, This is what you need.

Looks like a toned-down version of current Swedish livery.

Urghs! Have the police forces in these countries no taste?!?

I think the point is that they're supposed to look vile so that you notice them - the UK car posted by Cap'n H is a "patrol car" i.e. out on the roads - British Police believe it's more effective to have a car that's clearly visible and therefore everybody (briefly) obeys the laws, speed limits etc that way they only chase the idiots who still tear past them at warp snot - based on the assumption that if they're oblivious to a police car that looks like that - they're oblivious to everything else as well...

Commander McLane wrote:

Urghs! Have the police forces in these countries no taste?!? :?

Police liveries have two goals:
1. High visibility. The Swedish one, at least, achieves this well. (Both the blue and the yellow panels are retroreflective.)
2. To invoke appropriate emotions (i.e., propaganda). There are two perspectives on what emotions are “proper”; you can either aim for imposing/awe-inspiring, or friendly and harmless. The Swedish design goes for the latter, and I think it’s reasonably successful.

Being pretty is not one of the goals. ;-)

I think GalCop should be aiming for the imposing/awe-inspiring (not to say threatening) livery more than the cheerful-local-bobby look. After all, this is a legal system where a bounty of just one measly credit is enough to make your summary execution, either by the police or by any member of the public who happens to be passing, entirely legitimate... Evenin' all ... zzzap! BOOM ... mind how you go sir ...

Disembodied wrote:

I think GalCop should be aiming for the imposing/awe-inspiring (not to say threatening) livery more than the cheerful-local-bobby look. After all, this is a legal system where a bounty of just one measly credit is enough to make your summary execution, either by the police or by any member of the public who happens to be passing, entirely legitimate... Evenin' all ... zzzap! BOOM ... mind how you go sir ...

I don't think there's anything more awe-inspiring/threatening than copious laser burns and row after row of kill markings on the hull......

Captain Hesperus