Quanon

Read it all Fair Strides. I get the feeling that all the things that happened with your family, is catching up. You say you supress the feelings and emotions. This takes a ton of energy. I'm not blaming you, what I get from your story is you had to grow up FAST. Decide major things that have a serious impact on your life. It's far from odd you have these on and off periods. Feeling tired by it all. And not sure what to do about it. I think writing this out in a blog is a good step. You can let it out, doesn't matter if it's a bit cluttered or rambling on. At least you let it out and it can give you some insight on what's going on in your head. I admire it, it's brave to start digging in yourself. Though it does take time and you should take your time. Take time, but also take good care for yourself, keep eating and drinking at the right times, you can feel very tired and worn out, by not eating enough and not drinking, causes headaches... ect, hold on to some structure. Could write a whole lot more, but I got the feeling I would be talking to much about myself here; I've gone through difficult periods myself, about myself. Still fighting with it at times. But I don't want to take away your "thunder". Feel free to PM me anytime; I don't think I can help much, but you got my ear

Been working on the other structures for the Manaan skybox. Very much WIP, ugly shadows, need to fix up the smoothing groups and further tweaking the mesh. But here's a quick preview on how it looks so far.

Lol, I was planning on doing these waaaaay sooner. But I never got to it. That's life I guess; it throws things in the way, so a modder can't get to his business So, I spend most of my time creating a new texture to go with my model, closely eyeballing that one picture you posted. To get the same feel and look; as best as I could. I'm not really all that well in the texture department. Then adjusted the UVWmapping a bit. Playing with the render settings Picture time! Also many thanks to Jorak Uln, he created the window texture; and I really love it! Hope you don't mind me using it on this project Jorak

Had a good start on that "circle" the landingbay is located. The detailing is simple, since this is a distance shot. But I can't find a good texture from Manaan areas, that matches better, to the one seen in the real skybox. It's close, but far to cluttered/ busy to work. Anyone any idea what texture would be a better fit? Redoing the color to match, isn't an issue. But so far it doesn't look good enough to me. Here are some preview shots, the fins in the background are a quick mock up Oh, and this is just 1/4 of the full circle/ tube shape

Time to pick this up and run with it! Spend some time on another city, I can visit Manaan as well.

For the Dejarik game, why not, do the same like you did for the billboards and commercial signs Add a small circular plane, as a placeable, fit it nicely in the center of one of the tables, so you can pick a table or 2 to change and the other remain untouched. Since it's a placeable you could perhaps add in a tiny Rancor with a hologram effect applied to it. But that would suck up polyies. Perhaps; we could render out a few game beasties with the hologram effect, stick those to small planes on top of the Dejarik tables. Just thinking out loud though ^^ Overall, Nar Shaddaa has always been my favourite planet, since I visited it in Dark Forces 2 for the very first time

Here you go! One TGA file with said texture. I double checked, but my PSD file is the same as the TGA; I collapsed the layers. The quick run down of things I've done, by just seeing the texture: Used the Smoke/clouds render effect, black and white. Then applied a glass/ ocean ripple effect. Using that as a top layer I made a bottom layer, with just a gradient in it. Going from this orange to red. I then changed the layer mode of the the top layer to multiply, overlay or something. I might have used a copy and another mode. Last step was to make a clipping mask and apply a bevel&emboss effects by just double clicking on the layer mask. And then setup the options for the bevel stuff. I can't give any specific numbers and tweaks I did, that's lost to history, lol http://www.mediafire.com/download/4xleq9m3b9sd769/QKor_Data.tga

I found a render back and a zip file with all the stuff for this Korriban Temple thing I started once. The texture is very basic really

I made a texture that looked like it for a Korriban area; a few years ago. It has an orangy glow to it, but I never got to animate it. I was back in the day looking into it redo it anyway; since I wasn't really happy how it looked thus far. And I can't seem to find it back on my PC for the moment. Not sure if I still have those areas installed for my Kotor games.