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[WIP] Look What I Made!

Majestic

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Pretty cool non the less, few modders give our Naucassian friends much attention.
 

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So not only do the Taubat look a lot better with proper material lighting, so do my experiments in new Talarian ships
 

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Hello:
They do look better indeed! May I ask what are ytour settings in the Materials' tab?
 

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Ambient and Specular at zero, Diffuse and Emissive at 100

Also make sure your materials are prefaced with !phong lighting instead of !lambert, which is what mine were originally
 

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So Ambient and Specular to black, Diffuse and Emissive to white, and the texture name as !phong_name_!opaque

Cool! that should work magnificently.
 

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So Ambient and Specular to black, Diffuse and Emissive to white, and the texture name as !phong_name_!opaque

Cool! that should work magnificently.
I did !phong_name_!alpha but it might still work fine
 

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I use !phong_name_!opaque for most ships and !phong_name_!noalpha for when I need transparent areas, I currently do that with emblems :thumbsup:
 

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Looking good mate, the Talarians look great here, such a underused faction.
 

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My first tentative steps toward trying to do something for the Garidians. Probably gonna pitch the red down a bit and might add some more structure to the 'claws' to make them more wing-like to look better but it's a start
 

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Pretty cool design mate :)
 

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More fleshed-out ideas in-game
 

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Hello:
The ships are quite nice! I particularly like the Ori-like cylinder in their designs :thumbsup:
 

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You've pumped those out quickly :)
 

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So apparently the back burner is where stuff actually gets done, like this...
 

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Hello:
They look great! I wonder what are they up to :angel: .
 

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The pursuit for profit is getting a little overboard now lol, that is a badass fleet of greedy opportunists!!!
 

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Looks like someone took the rule "War is good for business" a little bit too literal... :D
 

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Decided I wasn't pleased with my original take on the Garidians, so I reworked the idea of Vulcan/Romulan warp tech hybrid...and came up with this, flipping a warp ring ninety degrees to orient it like a tire
 

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Hello:
I like that decision, because it's like giving them their own identity :thumbsup: .
 

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They're pretty cool. Really like the Vulcan influences I had planned something similar to an old project that I never got off the ground. Awesome work mate.
 

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Tons of experimental builds tonight. Only one or two for each faction for now, *might* try to expand some into larger sets way off in tomorrow land
 

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The rotated ring gives off a very different feeling. Still, my favorite part is the profile similar to the White Star from B5.
 

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My first attempt at Son'a ships. I think the hull in general needs to be thicker and the yellow color washed out a bit
 

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Small change, but made a world of difference
 

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Hello:
Indeed, sometimes a small change is all what is needed :thumbsup: .
 

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When all the cats are looking at one bird
 

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