Models giveaway

Were you really ignored at A51? They’re a friendly bunch there, at least they always have been in the 5 or 6 years I’ve known them, admittedly you have to be among them for a while in order for them to get to know you but once you’re in, you’re in for life there. Good community, hope they manage to make it back, Glock deserves it for his efforts over the years.

As for Flak, Plasmafire, it’s all good stuff I’m sure, but I’m not angling for a mod to play here, it was a sugestion I thought might well benefit the entire community really, not me.

This game has a better chance of surviving if the community pools it’s resources, I know everyone agrees with that, it’s not often that someone like Sol comes along that seems so selfless, yet so talented at the same time, so if he could achieve something that benefits everyone, it would be a good testament to his nature. It’s a general feeling I get from this site, look at Adoxa, knocking down the obstacles that stand in other peoples way, people seem to be really pulling together here for the benefit of all, like some kind of last stand where the real genius’s are all together finally in the same room banging heads together, no surprise the boundaries have been pushed further in the last year than in the five years before.

Best of luck to you all I say.

For clarification on alpha channels, Freelancer uses in-texture alpha channels to determine opacity/transparency, not illumination (like 90% of other games do).

The way Freelancer works is it uses a second texture (Et), applied over the diffuse texture (Dt) which tells the game what glows and what doesn’t.

The only downside to “glow-mapping” is you lose specular highlighting. It is for this singular reason that Freelancer utilizes separated textures on its assets so that windows can glow while the rest of the ship still gets specular highlights.

Just FYI, in case you didn’t know.

When I get the opportunity later today I’ll post up a few pics of a FULLY glow-mapped ship.

Perhaps if you added some sensors, they could be used in Infinity….

Looks cool, considering it looks nothing like anything from FL, it can be used for practically anything.

Okay.

Very cool. I’ll be using this one for sure

HOT!!! :pint:

Oh, I likes that one. It may find a how in FW:ToW. Thanks Sol

Hooray for the Mass Effect series!

Only crit, element zero is supposed to be dark blue.

For those who don’t know:

Element zero, also known as ‘eezo’, is a substance that, when subjected to an electrical current, releases dark energy which can be manipulated into a mass effect field, raising or lowering the mass of all objects within that field. A positive current increases mass, a negative current decreases it. This ‘mass effect’ is used in countless ways, from generating artificial gravity to manufacturing high-strength construction materials. It is most prominently used to enable faster-than-light space travel. When humans discovered the Prothean ruins on Mars, they also discovered refined element zero that the Protheans had left behind. It enabled research into FTL ship drives before the Charon Relay was discovered.

Eezo is generated when solid matter, such as a planet, is affected by the energy of a star going supernova. The material is common in the asteroid debris that orbits neutron stars and pulsars. These are dangerous places to mine, requiring extensive use of robotics, telepresence, and shielding to survive the intense radiation from the dead star. Only a few major corporations can afford the set-up costs required to work these primary sources. Some planets have small eezo deposits or coalesced around a larger deposit during their formation. While these secondary sources are safer to mine, the yield from the ore is not as large. There are rumours that the Nemean Abyss has particularly rich eezo deposits.

Element zero forms the basis of many advanced medicines throughout Citadel space. The biotic drug ‘red sand’ allegedly has element zero as its base - according to urban legend, it was created by criminal triads on Mars from the eezo samples recovered there. The Normandy’s massive Tantalus drive core cost 120 billion credits because of the amount of element zero needed to power the ship’s specialized stealth system.

I believe the limit is actually in the range of 21,XXX polys. However, for the sake of simplicity, everyone throws 20k around because it is easy to remember, it’s a nice round number, and sticking to that as a guideline always means your models will be just fine as far as detail levels go.

Now I just need to finish the custom Normandy model sitting on my HDD and hopefully get that thing out for the community to use (and I need to write a detailed permissions readme too to prevent it from being abused).

Actually I was shooting for something like “ALWAYS ask me before using” lol.