@ Freestalker.fr

Yeah, but it’s just not the same.
Though a peek at some waiting in the
wings. It might even raise someone from
the dead.

The Liberty Dreadnaught is a full retexture package using 3D rendered textures.

All these are months old now.

To Freestalker.fr &Helloween
You’re right and I was wrong. Political comment even in jest as the model was done in has no place on this site which is a respite from it. Not a platform for it.

And I was perhaps wrong about the last model you’ll see from me here. There are many more models, but promised to another mod in development. Only that mod might not happen. The main Dev has been off the grid for some time. If the mod is scrapped then since they’ve been already packed up months ago, they’ll show up here. However as I said, I won’t (can’t) produce new ones.

@ Freestalker.fr
??? No in fact the opposite.
Politics aside I did that texture job on a stock model becasuse I to see… well I can’t see the point. Literally. I can’t see the points (unless I get nose prints on the screen) Macular Degeneration. Nasty business. Yes I feed my display into a wall sized HDTV, still no good.
That texture job was poor at best too, but I done my best.

Hey I haven’t been gone really. Just that I can’t even play the game anymore. I use a text 2 speech program to LISTEN in.

Thanks for being concerned.

Hi again people.
Yes I was gone for quite a while. I’m still around but modeling is sort of out of the question.
Though it’s not a star ship and I didn’t do the model I can still slowly work at texturing.

Edit: I took this down after realizing politics is the
wrong topic to drag into this site. It should be (And is) a respite from such divisive issues and a place to
come together.

Sorry it took so long guy.
Really glad the site was around to
to get my models to the community
when I did. My eyes are too bad to
model very well anymore. So as long
as I’m around I’ll lend my support.

@ w0dk4
Besides the gateway errors I emailed you about I was surprised to find the download and wiki page came up okay.

Here the whole site just came up. Thanks.

Hi. Still here. Can’t see much so I listen a lot.
(text 2 speech. Ha)

Old Rockers that still have it:

King Crimson - Starless (…And Bible Black)

https://youtu.be/FhKJgqxNDD8

Yes - Roundabout (2017)
(With Geddi Lee for a bit of a Rush )

https://youtu.be/t1-NsnlPc54

Carlos Santana - Corazon

https://youtu.be/t6omUxqhG78

Edit: Oops almost forgot these old folk 2

Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin

https://youtu.be/MjUqfRrWwcM

This weeks newsletter from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had an item that hit home for those looking to build asteroid fields. A real close look at 100 near earth objects. So here’s link:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7146&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=weekly20180601-6

Follow the other links and get a look at the real rocks zipping along up there!

Europe gave us so much data from the Gaia project that it’s taking teams of astronomers to wade through it. There’s massive ancient black holes, white dwarfs zipping through space at C fractal speeds and millions of new stars to catalog. Fun, fun.

If you care to step away from Virtual outer space and into Real outer space, here’s your gateway:

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2

(Warning: You’ll have to put your science hats on)

Welcome.

Yep, been fielding email all day and taking down links.
Looking for another cloud sevice. Other mobile users in same boat. Last post on this. will submit asteroid textures to the dowload section later in the month. Bye.

Hi. All my links suddenly needed those email permissions becase an update zeroed everything and gave me only the option to allow people to “view” files. Let’s see then. Never used Google drive on PC.

Link to Asteriod.zip:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SzseCoUg8iNK8ekWcx5zsizSHiosY8VA/view?usp=drivesdk

As example here’s screenshot and that download only applies if I wanted to download the file off the drive:

Might be on PC. Isn’t on the Andriod app. In fact it’s a totally different program interface. Won’t waste time on a screen shot. Sorry I didn’t specify that. Believe me, it changed big time or it wouldn’t have been an issue. Though what I got back from Google summed up to oops. Sorry about stepping in to try and hand out freebies. I’ll crawl into my hole again.

Sadly is the word. It descibes the run around Google is giving it’s users too. Something really botched cloud computing and nobody wants to admit it. Google’s update yesterday made the situation worse. XBox’s Microsoft cloud crashed losing users data, the IRS’s cloud services crashed causing their websites to go down on Monday. So I’m sorry. 17mb is too big a file to transfer over my 4G with my data cap aleady busted for the month. I’ll take the link down as I’m doing with the 20+ others I’d shared data elsewhere with and on the 27 I’ll submit it for download. The only solice I have is I’m not alone in this, my design sites’ data sharing is basically screwed as of Monday.
Everybody’s getting permission requests and pulling their hair out too.

EDIT: I copied this from Google Clouds new help file:

“With Google Drive on the web, you can view things like videos, PDFs, Microsoft Office files, audio files, and photos.”

Note “View”? No “file sharing” is mentioed any longer.
Zip files or any archive files are not mentioned now either.
In fact when I try to download my own zips it tells me “Unsupported Format”. It want’s a “viewer”.

@$!# Google cloud put new “policies” in effect yesterday.
I have it set up as I always did. The upshot is I don’t think there’s anyway to turn this off. I’m going to probably submit it for the downloads page. I griped to Google, haven’t got a response. I know XBox’s cloud crashed recently and lost all my Solitare Collection data. It could be the respose to some threat to cloud computing. Wait till tomorrow and try again. As Douglas Adams put in sky high letters: Sorry For The Inconvenience!

Edit: Par for the course, Googles reply said load update. So I did and it’s really jerked around the interface and Googles docs and their learning pages for their cloud are for the old interface.

Now try it. HOWEVER the option “Can Access” is no longer there and only “Can View” so I’m hoping it doesn’t mean what it says.

Somebody try it and get to me on the result. I have many links to my cloud I’ll have to take down if they’ve made their drive “invitation only”.

I’m beating my head with other projects just now, but rather than creating new rocks, I’ll edit this post later with some new asteroid textures and let you all put them on the “Spaceballs”. I would suggest a bit more “crumple” on them. I’ve seen the real thing enough to know most asteroids in FL are a bit too spherical.

Edit: OKAY! Had a few textures for spacerocks. 17.5 mb of them so I zipped those puppy’s up. If you want to know what to do with the bump, normals, specularity, etc maps just slap them into a material, render them on a flat plane and render the result out as a single texture and use that on the asteroids.

Edit: Here’s the link. Enjoy the new “rocks”;
(Had to take link down as Google Cloud no longer file shares. Will submit textures to download page on 27 April. So far I’m hearing most cloud drives have closed file sharing as of Monday.)

GREAT TIME for Google to change their policies for the cloud drive that reset all my cloud links. Above should be open without enailing my permission. This happened right after I posted this on Mon. 15 Apr. If it’s emailing me still then do so. I’ll deal with it.

Yes the are whole tex package for asteroids and planets from X3, so you might already have them.

On asteroid textures if spherical mapping looks off, go to a cubic mapping.

Decided to enter this fray using science. So taking averages of the dimensions of several Near Earth Objects and creating a 118 poly mesh that conformed to the result, I then created a single dds pseudo-seamless texture to place on it. In theory you can reduce this texture 3x before tiling appears.

The last table is for Vesta the largest “Asteroid” since the larger Ceres is now classed as a “dwarf planetoid”. Note the size. Hardly what we see in Freelancer which amounts to “Space Dust”.

No I’ve been trying to put the characters into 3DS Max and give the bods and animations an upgrade. From what I’m getting Digital Anvil ran the original files in .chr format out of early Character Studio in Max through early Delphi to create the UTF format for the FL engine. Back in 2004-05 we were hoping to get and input/output through Milkshape, but it never happened. I’ve gone through the files in XML and extracted parts the conform to MAX’s chr format, but the geometry still needs a way to covert in and out.

If and when the FL dfm files get figured out, THEN character modelers and animators like me can start to work and start creating new and better characters for FL.

Think of it if FL characters had more than a handful of heads and bodies and better than those hand flapping fidgets? It’s possible if we could load the dfm’s in and out.

Care to share the way into the .dfm files? Or did you?
If you did, then I could amimate a bit better than that.
(Not bragging just saying). Depends on bones, but I have mocap libraries too. PM Me.

Your very welcome!

The site might be “old” but the “new” sites
are pains in the butt.

I was interested if some of that stellar noise
isn’t the cosmic version of Satellite Radio
running down the top ten from Planet X.
If that’s “The Music of the Spheres” then
I’ll stick with good ol’ Terran Rock and Roll.

And what do THEY think of all the radio noise
we’re spewing at them?