Model
- Is there any limit for a full detailed model (vertex-count, poly-count)? What is it for a small ship, a big ship, a space station, something small flying around (cargo items etc.)?
- How many low detail versions (LODs) do I have to provide? What are the size recommendations for those? What filename should they have?
- Should the full detailed version and the low detailed ones share the same textures/maps?
- What else should I provide? (shield-mesh, shield-texture?)
- Which image formats are supportes and recommended?
- What is the maximum size of images/maps? Should I always provide as detailed textures as possible?
- How many texture files may I use, what filenames should they have?
- What maps should I provide (specular, glow, ...)? What features are currently supported? What should be the filename for those pictures? What does a certain black/white value mean of such a map?
I don't want to convert around with mesher. I just want to make my model and skin it with my favourite 3D-art program (blender, wings3D, etc.). When it is finished (fully uv-mapped and skined with all possible maps and looks fine with my favourite 3D-art program) I would very much like to hand it over to you guys to port it in whatever way necessary to your game-format (hopefully not destroying any uv-mapping). Are there any known problems with that, e.g. when a model is uv-mapped and skinned with blender, does the model look similar in vegastrike and when rendered with blender? I don't want the game developers to have to tweak my model and put further remodelling/retexturing work into it, they have probably already enough stuff to do.
Blender specific
How do I indicate mount points for guns and thrusters with blender?
How do I indicate docking points?
Does the ship need to head a specific diretion, have a specific size in blender?
Copyright stuff
Under what licence do I have to submit my work? Do I get mentioned in the credits?
Please also tell me what I forgot to ask in order to provide a complete model.
And finally: Where do I have to send the finished model?
Thanks!