Z's FO Conversions.

[Adm_Z]

As my last order of business, I thought the midway needed some escort company.

My God :Y

She looks sweet all she needs now is a flight of KD-56 Gryphon class Air/Space superiority fighter streaming out of her fighter bays

Turns out you were right.

 

[Majestic]

Beautiful work mate, she looks fantastic.

 

[Hellkite]

yep when I'm right I'm right

 

[USS_Excalibur]

cool, I'll probably do that.

Anyway, moar light.

That is excellent work....

thanks! Here is my final ship texture. I know the other one was good, so I kept it also, I just changed this one to match all the others.

Hmm... looks like you softened the warp nacelle colours... Oh well, I can revise it I guess. But it looks great otherwise.

 

[Adm_Z]

yeah, thats what happened, but add a little glow there and it will look much better. I had another texture that I kept that was much better, but I figured I would do one just to match the others.

 

[USS_Excalibur]

I hope you don't mind the competition with the Galaxy EVO. I too have been giving her some work. And I am pretty close to a stage where I can test it under stock. FO is a different story however.

Maybe someone can compare our textures and give a Pros and Cons comparison.

 

[Adm_Z]

Go ahead and post them here if you want. The pictures that is.

Here is a tip on testing ships ingame.

If you have just edited a model and/or want to test it in-game without having to mod anything, a simple solution is to name the model something like fed_saber.sod and put it in the addon folder.(textures in the texture folder)* Then, just place the saber or selected ship on a map through the map editor and you can test it out.* You can see the model, size, effects, textures ect. without even opening an odf. In-fact, it would even be buildable if you wanted

In this case, I just put the textures in the texture folder and took the model and put it in the addon folder and named it fed_galaxy.sod.

 

[Majestic]

I always add it to the map editor build menu, it's what I did with the Dawnstar, Galor and Keldon ships I've showed off in my thread recently. It also means you don't override anything either. Although this is in standard A2 and not FO.

 

[Adm_Z]

yeah, the cool thing with the addon folder in FO is that you can test it, build with it, ect, without overriding anything perminatly, and you don't have to edit a single odf.

Here are some more shots of my EVO edit. I might do more with it if we are to have some fun with this.

 

[USS_Excalibur]

Nice... how are the borg textures?

 

[Adm_Z]

I would use regular borg textures, but I don't think they work for FO. I think FO used sprits and other things to add borg textures, not just textures. I"ll have to look into it though.

 

[Starfox1701]

nice wotk there

 

[CABAL]

FO uses the A2 system for assimilation but they also took advantage of the fact that the A1 system is still in place in the engine. The A1 system used mesh groups that had their corresponding nodes located in Root -> Damage -> Borg on the tree.

 

[Starfox1701]

Yea the technice is often refered too as 3D borg textures.

 

[Adm_Z]

Yeah, verry cool to look at also. but difficult to recreate...

 

[Starfox1701]

not really check the tutorial 10th down.

A2tuts.de.vu - Armada 2 Tutorials

 

[Majestic]

Considering that link is to Fahres Tutorial site I'll let it pass, however next time I'd mind if you ask a staff member before posting a link to a non-affiliate, non-wiki, forum linked site.

 

[Adm_Z]

not really check the tutorial 10th down.

A2tuts.de.vu - Armada 2 Tutorials

Too bad thats a bit beyond my ability as is.



As sort of a heads up, I sent in the pack last night, so it should be up as soon as Majestic gets to it.

 

[USS_Excalibur]

Too bad thats a bit beyond my ability as is.



As sort of a heads up, I sent in the pack last night, so it should be up as soon as Majestic gets to it.

.... (-_-) *feels like as if he is beaten at the competition for the Galaxy EVO*

Well, I can only say that Once your Galaxy EVO goes up. Who'd bother trying mine when yours looks better? I think I have definitely lost my chances now.

 

[Adm_Z]

I for one am still curious to see what you have come up with. Don't give up just yet, I am sure that you can still put a unique spin on them.

 

[USS_Excalibur]

All I really did was darken the textures, light up the lightmaps, and then create a FO based Borg texture set (optional).

Unless....

 

[Majestic]

Adm_Z your file is up, sorry it took so long I downloaded it last night then totally forgot about it thanks to be so darn tired.

MSFC Ship Re-textures FO Style

 

[Adm_Z]

No problem man, take your time and get some sleep.

 

[thunderfoot]

Z, the new textures frakkin' RROCK! Thanks for sharing them

 

[Adm_Z]

Thanks Thunder, that means a lot.

 

[FahreS]

Considering that link is to Fahres Tutorial site I'll let it pass, however next time I'd mind if you ask a staff member before posting a link to a non-affiliate, non-wiki, forum linked site.

Thank you

not really check the tutorial 10th down.

A2tuts.de.vu - Armada 2 Tutorials

Thats actually not the best way to do it.
It works without errors but one could do it better.
If you add the borg mesh to the joint "h_borg" you dont need this little white/transparent texture. Everything connected to the h_borg joint will appear after the assimilation. This feature was brought to us with Armada 1 and works in A2 too.
The advantage is, that you can use lightmaps on the borg mesh

 

[USS_Excalibur]

Thank you


Thats actually not the best way to do it.
It works without errors but one could do it better.
If you add the borg mesh to the joint "h_borg" you dont need this little white/transparent texture. Everything connected to the h_borg joint will appear after the assimilation. This feature was brought to us with Armada 1 and works in A2 too.
The advantage is, that you can use lightmaps on the borg mesh

Would it work similar with other Races, like assimilation meshes of other races simply listing their race name?

 

[Adm_Z]

Would it work similar with other Races, like assimilation meshes of other races simply listing their race name?

Thats actually a very interesting idea. What if, when you captured a ship and were klingon, it had visible extra armor, and maby like a gun mounted to the top You could do cool race specific things to it.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Thats actually a very interesting idea. What if, when you captured a ship and were klingon, it had visible extra armor, and maby like a gun mounted to the top You could do cool race specific things to it.

I don't know whether it is possible in stock A2, but maybe someone should suggest it to the FlOps makers. Maybe they could implement something like that.

 

[Adm_Z]

well, they actually use a form of it called mixed tech. they disable the ability to steal construction ships from other races, but instead allow you to use that ship to build a mixed tech yard, which can build ships that have weapons and tech specialized for attacking that specific race.

I know they have a ton of other things planned as well.