Author Topic: An interesting idea that was done in STO.... (Read 4987 times)

flarespire · « **on:** July 16, 2011, 01:03:36 AM »

what im on about here is the appearence the prototype reman shield gives your ship being made for the KM galaxy class, i myself will be...attempting this, heres an image of what im aiming for

if anyone else wants to give this ago then do so, i may need help on this anyways

though is this effect even possible in BC before i jump in ahead of myself?

ACES_HIGH · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2011, 01:21:50 AM »

I'm pretty sure it can be done to the individual ship textures easily, but if you mean as a procedural texture for any ship (like the shield in STO) I'm not sure you can do that.

flarespire · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2011, 01:31:17 AM »

i mean individual ship textures using the same style as the reman shield. and i was on about the slightly glossy effect the shield gives the ships, i suppose that could be done with the speculars?

ACES_HIGH · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2011, 01:43:09 AM »

yeah, that would be fairly easy to do with speculars if you tweak them just right.

flarespire · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2011, 02:04:34 AM »

well if started work i did the nacells bussard and grille textures first so i could be sure to get a close match, attached is my efforts so far.

Centurus · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2011, 01:14:11 AM »

I like it. Although I think you might want to give the bussards and warp grille one shade of green lighter, that is if you're trying to get as close as possible to the STO Reman color scheme.

Question, are you gonna try and do the honeycomb effect as well?

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2011, 03:03:47 AM »

I love the Reman shields in STO! They actually make a Luna-class look bad-ass!

flarespire · « **Reply #7 on:** July 17, 2011, 06:33:00 AM »

i am gonna try the honeycombe patterns, but as im not very good at making textures i may need help.
also because this is BC im only going for a close match, not exact, so if shades are slightly off dont worry, it actually looks better in BC when the alpha channels are in effect.

X_TheUnknown_X · « **Reply #8 on:** July 17, 2011, 07:45:16 AM »

Quote from: flarespire on July 17, 2011, 06:33:00 AM

I am gonna try the honeycombe patterns, but as im not very good at making textures i may need help.

I think I can offer some advice here: when creating the hexagonal hull plating for my Kessok ships, I found that Google Images contained a whole bunch of tessellated hexagonal grids you can use. I just imported one into photoshop and removed the white sections with the wand tool. They're quite easy to tile across as well.
Something like this might be usefu: (just say if you want the image removed)

flarespire · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2011, 08:01:09 AM »

Actually that hexagonal grid is gonna help alot, thogh now im gonna have to spend hors looking at my ship on STO to see how im gonna do this.

EDIT

was just looking on the net and found the texture file Cryptic used for the reman shield look, wonder if theres a way to get it to work in this project?

ive attached it as some source material so people can help me figure this out.....

Bones · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2011, 09:21:53 AM »

I've got an idea how you could implement this stuff without baking it into textures/ alphas or speculars ;) you should try to add that new glow thingy ;)

flarespire · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2011, 10:07:32 AM »

yeah like i could even do that....i mean ive attempted it on the solaris, but had no luck.

bones could you look into getting this texture to work with the KM Galaxy?

ive made a start by replacing parts of textures to get the nacells done, but im really struggling.

Bones · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2011, 10:24:08 AM »

dunno, I never tried that new glow method myself, could give it a try but not this week, tomorrow afternoon I have a flight to Canada and most likely it will be a week of sightseeing

I could try next week tho...

flarespire · « **Reply #13 on:** July 17, 2011, 04:57:48 PM »

ive made more progress, ive made the alpha channels more up to date and have Slowly managed to edit the textures, im only going for as close as possible here, so enjoy so far, spec maps are gonna take some time to do, but heres what ive got (ingame)

CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 17, 2011, 05:50:02 PM »

good progress thus far!
cookie!

Centurus · « **Reply #15 on:** July 18, 2011, 09:57:30 AM »

Very nice progress.

flarespire · « **Reply #16 on:** July 18, 2011, 04:14:27 PM »

ok im on to doing the saucer, but heres where im gonna struggle, so my guestion is, can ANYONE use the texture file i poster to do the saucer textures? my attempts have not been the best.

anyways heres my work on the stardrive (one texture left to do....)

086gf · « **Reply #17 on:** July 18, 2011, 04:44:40 PM »

Oh that actually looks kinda cool! Keep at it.

tiqhud · « **Reply #18 on:** July 18, 2011, 05:31:32 PM »

HMMMM, looks mean.

flarespire · « **Reply #19 on:** July 18, 2011, 05:45:50 PM »

HELL Yeah, though the saucer textures are a pain and i have no idea how im gonna do em....

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