OK , so the uv mapping is kinda scewed on the pipes , so they're now black xD, just plain black, like charcoal y'know.. also it's kind of a bit too waspish now ...

Rad Ished wrote:OK , so the uv mapping is kinda scewed on the pipes , so they're now black xD, just plain black, like charcoal y'know.. also it's kind of a bit too waspish now ...

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the ends of the pipes closer to the barrel should be glowing red hot..as they get closer to the opening, they should even get white..

Rad Ished wrote:OK , i kept the mesh manifold and played with seams.. for a long time

A note/clarification, you don't need to keep the mesh as one continuous mesh over the whole thing, with all vertices welded together. You can and should separate the mesh along edges that are around 90 degrees so that they shade correctly. When you do this you are also essentially creating seams in those places, which will make some seams unnecessary.

But like I said earlier, you still just don't want alot of intersecting surfaces and surfaces covering surfaces facing in similar directions.

This is only a preliminary texturing. Just playing with ideas atm, it's my first weapon (kinda) so im in no hurry.

Once you are geometry complete, you should bake a much, much higher quality ambient occlusion map, like 16 or 32 for your final. But first set the Energy value up to 2.0 instead of the default 1.0. You'll use this in the texture.

Rad Ished wrote:OK , so the uv mapping is kinda scewed on the pipes , so they're now black xD, just plain black, like charcoal y'know.. also it's kind of a bit too waspish now ...

If you post your .blend file I could take a look at the pipes.

Also, remember to separate the parts of the texture that are actually glowing into a separate "glow map" or luma map, whichever it is called around here. These areas shouldn't be part of the diffuse texture in the end.

cortez wrote:

just playing a bit with textures

Is there a finished version somewhere? This looks very promising. I never quite liked my texturing in the original version.

Hey flying steel, thank you for offering to fix my mesh, but i managed to do it.
I'll start a thread when I've got something new to post.
A good point about separating out the glow maps.
I decided to start texturing again from scratch, I am not really to happy with it so far.

2 different design concepts

The one on the left looks cool.

cortez wrote:2 different design concepts

yes, indeedily. I can has downloads links, if available?

Cortez - I prefer the left/red it goes with the lava

Looks nice though

I like the right one better

C.Brutail wrote:I like the right one better

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Rad Ished wrote:OK , so the uv mapping is kinda scewed on the pipes , so they're now black xD, just plain black, like charcoal y'know.. also it's kind of a bit too waspish now ...

amazing! i love it can be devastator-gun?

Huh? Are we now adding a 16-colour mode to Nexuiz? o.O

It's. . . um . . . well it's . . . beautiful?

In 1990 you would have called it photorealistic

So are we implementing a MS DOS mode?

env/newskies/asteroids

JUST WOW!

awesome sev.

Nice background sev!

divVerent wrote:In 1990 you would have called it photorealistic

And the media back then would have called it-

"Has VR gone too far? Nexuiz, the Murder Simulator"

cortez wrote:

Texture error. The top of the entrance is spanning 4 stones, but the bottom face of the top entrance have way bigger stones than the front depicts.

fun with terrain

http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/viewer.php ... 1shoz3.jpg

some bloodrage updates

cortez wrote:some bloodrage updates

BTW: i really like bloodrage

So i'm not really DOING anything, but well... testing multiple monitor support eh? I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and for the first time, my video cards were all set up properly with xinerama and shit within ~1 minute... So I decided to open Nexuiz and see what happens.. And well, I have 3 monitors... at 1920x1200 each. Basically, this happened: http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/images/0hksg9oxp846x9p55tns.jpg

I believe that qualifies for the AWESOME award of the month.

it most certainly does.

so much beautiful screen real estate...i envy you!