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The visible poly angles are pissing me off too. I need to find a way of smoothing only small areas, as Maya always seems to want to smooth the whole object, which destroys the texture.fractalsponge1 wrote:There is still very noticeable segmentation; is this for a game? If not, up your poly budget and make the geometry live up to the texturing; it's a very nice design so far.
It's a problem of the new polys being slightly out of sync with the UV map. When I make my next smoothing attempt I'll take some screen shots.salm wrote:Smoothing only small areas is usually not very recomendable.
How does it fuck up the texture if you smooth after unwrapping it? In Max this usually works pretty well. I´m sure you can do that in Maya somehow. Can you post a picture of the ship with the fucked up texture?
Reduce size of running lights
Fix cockpit rim?
Fix cockpit control panel clipping
Smooth rough areas without ruining textures
Thicken landing gear doors
Rotate missiles 45 degrees
Perfectly align tattoos
Drop height on sticker bump
Retexture guns/add flash guard
Setting: A filthy workshop. The wreckage of a fighter plane is suspended from chains at the center. A woman's legs, clad in coveralls, stick out from underneath.
Parik enters wearing a full suit of formfitting power armor
(This armor will be updated.)
Parik: Kalea?
Kalea: Down here.
Parik: Come out. I have something to show you.
She climbs out from underneath the fighter.
At, like, 2% post production on this image.
Kalea: >Laughs<
You look ridiculous.
Parik: Hey!
Kalea: How much did you have to pull from the resource pool to build that?
Parik: You and I are practically royalty. We're allowed to buy ourselves birthday gifts.
Kalea: Your sense of entitlement knows no bounds Parik, and you don't get a birthday. You weren't born, and you've never even seen "day."
Parik: True, but exactly 20 "years" ago, you and I breathed air for the first time. "Spawning Vat drainage and Lung pump for dry incubation stage" just doesn't have the same ring to it as "birthday" and besides, the Enforcement caste celebrate birthdays, hell, even the Vagabonds do. Why should we deprive ourselves?
Kalea: Well then, happy Birthday.
Parik: You too... What do you suppose the council would say if they knew you were doing the work of a common grease monkey?
Kalea: What they always say, that "My purpose is greater than that." Why you can't have great purpose and still get something done is beyond me.
Parik: And what have you gotten done?
Kalea: Unfortunately, nothing. >sigh< She'll never fly again Parik. Nothing left to do now but turn her in for recycling.
Parik: Let me show you something.
Kalea: If it isn't a shower and a sedative I'm not interested.
Parik: Come on Kalea, it will only take a moment.
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Scene change. They enter a hanger platform overlooking the heart of the city.
I'll need to add detail to the down town area.
A shiny new fighter sits on the central landing platform (see above.)
Kalea: Is that-?
Parik: Yep. Based on your blue prints and reviews of the S-11 series, but I added a power reserve system for extended range, the new MK8 shield projectors, and I cannibalized those rocket pods from an old gunship. They're dumb fire, but fast enough it shouldn't matter. The missiles though, are AI controlled, and high yield enough to take out just about anything. But, yeah, it's you're design. 90 percent. Maybe 85.
Kalea: So, you've been hacking into my personal terminal.
Parik: True. I also read your journal.
Kalea- >Arm punch<
Both: Ouch!
Parik: So do you like it?
Kalea: I love it Parik. Thank you.
Parik: Happy birthday little sister.
Kalea: Hey- watch it with the "little." If anything we're twins.
Parik: And when you're taller than me, you can call me little brother, until then- where are you going?
Kalea: Where do you think?
She climbs on board.
Parik: Okay, but have her back soon, they still need to tweak some things before the next operation. We're headed out to the borderlands.
Kalea: And when was someone going to tell me? What's the target?
Parik: The factory by the old solar station.
Kalea: I've never been that close to the Dayside.
Parik: Me neither, and I don't want to take any chances, so have her back soon okay?
Kalea: Stop worrying, and don't wait up.
Parik: Remember she's never been flown before, and watch the stabilizers, they might be a bit touchy, and I'd leave the afterburners alone for now, and we haven't tested the shields yet, so don't-
Kalea: Parik!
Parik: Right. Sorry. Just be careful.
Kalea: I will. See you soon.
