[WIP] Star Maps Revamp

[djh269 264]

Manaan - Blue

Kashyyk - Green

Korriban - Red

Tatooine - Yellow

Dantooine - Silver

[CarthOnasty 214]

1 hour ago, djh269 said:

Manaan - Blue

Kashyyk - Green

Korriban - Red

Tatooine - Yellow

Dantooine - Silver

Nearly exactly what I was thinking. I was going to use a saber color for each, so for Tat I was thinking yellow or orange. And then Dan, possibly purple, but I like the idea of silver...

[djh269 264]

Orange is a great shout for Tatooine!

And purple's a great colour it'd stand out in the ruins

 

 

 

[Sith Holocron 2,480]

4 hours ago, CarthOnasty said:

Close as I could get before it triggered.

Might I suggest using GLIntercept if you wish to get closer without triggering in the future?

[CarthOnasty 214]

Been a hot minute, but I have been working on this. I've mostly been working on the feet, so hoping to have something soon. Here's what the base texture is looking like at least.

[GNihilus2 88]

4 hours ago, CarthOnasty said:

Been a hot minute, but I have been working on this. I've mostly been working on the feet, so hoping to have something soon. Here's what the base texture is looking like at least.

a-ma-zing progress so far. I wonder if you would finally release not only HQ but MQ (middle-quality) textures of this aswell, running this myself still on a "half-end" rig, you know .... 

[Zhaboka 91]

Gorgeous!!

[CarthOnasty 214]

Finally back to working on this. I lost everything so I'm starting from scratch, so give it some time. 😉

[DarthParametric 3,790]

30 minutes for a remap, an hour for the texture?

[CarthOnasty 214]

1 hour ago, DarthParametric said:

30 minutes for a remap, an hour for the texture?

More than enough time.

[Salk 375]

Welcome back.

I am sorry to hear you lost all your previous work. It must be very frustrating.

[CarthOnasty 214]

Back in business.

[DarthParametric 3,790]

It may not matter, depending on how you plan to texture it, but I'd suggest relaxing the following verts:

[CarthOnasty 214]

I'm not sure I know what you mean?

[DarthParametric 3,790]

Ah you can disregard that. I thought the shape of the arms was slightly different, but it seems like that layout is already in the most relaxed state.

[CarthOnasty 214]

Finally fixed smoothgroups and UV maps.

[HK-47 84]

AHA! I knew the Selkath had a Star Map in Ahto City! Darn Force visions... making me go to the ocean floor... risking going crazy... almost get eaten by a shark... <trails off mumbling>.

My these look good.

[DarthParametric 3,790]

Is now a good time to suggest scrapping the original model and making a completely new one?

[KnifeMaster 33]

Glad to see you're working on this again  version 1 was a massive improvement over the stock star maps. A new model would be neat, but I think the low-poly floating ball thing is the only bit that's really in need of improvement.

[CarthOnasty 214]

On 10/20/2020 at 4:23 AM, DarthParametric said:

Is now a good time to suggest scrapping the original model and making a completely new one?

How dare you. What were you thinking? Just a rebuilt model in general or redesigning the structure itself?

16 hours ago, KnifeMaster said:

Glad to see you're working on this again  version 1 was a massive improvement over the stock star maps. A new model would be neat, but I think the low-poly floating ball thing is the only bit that's really in need of improvement.

Thanks And YES, that damn ball. Working on figuring out what to do with it actually. I really despise it.

[DarthParametric 3,790]

Mostly joking, but it's not exactly a high poly object. If you are going to replace the ball, might as well replace the arms and base while you are at it. I don't think it needs anything crazy, but some simple bevelled edges probably wouldn't go astray.

For the ball itself, you could maybe do something like a "cage" type object. An open polyhedral shape.

[CarthOnasty 214]

3 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

For the ball itself, you could maybe do something like a "cage" type object. An open polyhedral shape.

I was original playing around with punchthru back in v1 to try to get that effect actually. UVs needed work, but certainly possible now.

[DarthParametric 3,790]

I wouldn't recommend using transparency. Save yourself the grief and just use geometry. I was thinking something along these lines:

That's just shy of 1,600 tris. Since it wouldn't need a fancy texture, the UVs wouldn't need to be complex and could be just stuffed into a free corner of the map.

[CarthOnasty 214]

Be careful you don't invert your alpha channel.

[CarthOnasty 214]

On 10/21/2020 at 9:38 AM, DarthParametric said:

Mostly joking, but it's not exactly a high poly object. If you are going to replace the ball, might as well replace the arms and base while you are at it. I don't think it needs anything crazy, but some simple bevelled edges probably wouldn't go astray.

So I've been thinking about this idea more and more. What do you think is easiest, building a new model? Or using what's already there and manipulating the structure of that?