Kexikus 995 Posted March 2, 2015 View File High Quality Ravager Backdrop I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who was always bothered by that ridiculously low resolution texture used for the Ravager and the Sith Fighters during the final battle of the game, so I decided to make this really small modification that replaces this 256x256 pixel texture with a high quality 2048x2048 pixel version. The models I used to make the texture were done by Jeronimoe. Big thanks to him, you can check out his Empire at War mods over on moddb. INSTALLATION Place TEL_Rav.tga into your Override folder. UNINSTALLATION Delete TEL_Rav.tga from your Override folder. CREDITS Ravager and Sith Fighter model used to make this texture: Jeroenimo (http://www.moddb.com/members/jeroenimo) Additional Ravager damage detial: Malkior Final texture assembling: Kexikus THIS MOD IS NOT SUPPORTED BY LUCASARTS OR OBSIDIAN. USE THIS FILE AT YOUR OWN RISK. NEITHER THE AUTHOR OF THIS MOD NOR THE COMPANIES MENTIONED ABOVE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER WHEN USING THIS FILE. YOU MAY NOT REDISTRIBUTE THIS MOD AND/OR MODIFY IT TO USE IT IN YOUR OWN MOD (Simply because I used work by Jeroenimo, so I can't allow you to use them ) Submitter Kexikus Submitted 03/02/2015 Category Skins TSLRCM Compatible No Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kexikus 995 Posted March 17, 2015 As some people noted in the review section, my texture doesn't quite show enough of the Ravagers damage, so I made some edits. What do you think? If you have any ideas how to improve this texture, feel free to tell me and I'll try to incorporate them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kexikus 995 Posted March 21, 2015 Does that look better to you? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Malkior 476 Posted March 21, 2015 It might look better, but you seem like you're not dealing with the key issue of actually showing/adding more damage to the ship. Adding the shadows or darkening parts is only making it harder to see, for me anyway. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sith Holocron 2,480 Posted March 21, 2015 This is damage . . . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kexikus 995 Posted March 21, 2015 Well, the problem is certainly not that I don't know what the damage should look like but more that I'm really, really bad at making textures from scratch, so that makes creating the damage pretty difficult. If anyone who's better at doing this wants to improve the texture we can probably work something out. But I feel like I can't do anything more to make it look better :/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sith Holocron 2,480 Posted March 21, 2015 You should probably ask the guy that made the model if he could create a damaged version of the Ravager. Show the guy the pictures above. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Malkior 476 Posted March 22, 2015 SH with the animated images. I agree that a high quality model will, in turn make for a higher-detail texture. However, if you want to make some damage for yourself, try to first find either a good reference or build for yourself, the "skeleton" or innards of the Ravager first, then blend it using a layer mask with the original high rez Ravager you made. I apologize if I sound a bit rude or pretentious. Your texture looks quite frankly incredible (especially the fighters). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kexikus 995 Posted March 29, 2015 Creating a skeleton and blending it with the texture would probably be the best way to create the damage but I really don't know how to make such a skeleton, so I'll guess I'll leave the texture as it is until I find a way or someone else makes a better one Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Malkior 476 Posted March 29, 2015 I.... Could find some time to whip up something for you. For some reason, I really like creating "guts" for mechanical devices. Blame the Incredible Cross Section books from my youth. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kexikus 995 Posted March 30, 2015 That would certainly be cool, if you want to do this. And if you could, please use the picture in my second post here as a basis since I'd prefer to use this shot of the model which has a slightly different perspective compared to my original release. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kexikus 995 Posted April 26, 2015 It took a while, but version 2.0 is finally up A big thanks to Malkior, who created the additional damage detail for the Ravager. I highly recommend to redownload the mod, since it looks sooo much better now. Hope you like it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
