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yep. i always had a problem with joining toegether two meshes. most of the time, i had to risk a boolean (and do a very tiresome clean-up operation afterwards) or just connect them (which doesn't look that good, especially if you want a really "joined-together" look). The answer was staring at my face the whole time 
. Cut both meshes and join them. 
the adding parallel polies for better shading was also something i didnt know. Thank you. ) and I think i may have included the ships. but i can't find it. ill just replace them. anyway, it's just the shenzong, the rest have links posted in here.I'm not involved with VS, myself, at all; just with WCU.promise i'll do something for VS soon.
Do you still, use my server? If so, don't worry too much about space usage there; I have 50 gigs space; and I'm only using 5 or 10 gigs.btw re: missing ships. sorry, i moved a lot of files to cd-r's recently due to low disk space (and i cant afford to buy a new HD,)
That was the last feature I really needed from my Blender-wishlist. Seems that one of these days I need to compile me a new svn-version of Blender.- baking: object-to-object ray normal baking (baking hires object into lowres)
... or just get Blender 2.44-RC1 hereWell the part in parentheses says it all really.chuck_starchaser wrote:What's "object to object" baking?
Wow! Thanks!DualJoe wrote:Just read your UV-unwrap WIP and it's very impressive so far. If you keep this up it'll be the best tutorial I've ever read on the subject. I especially like the fact that you explain the technical reasons behind some of your advice, like the placement of uv-islands in relation to GPU-processing. It took me forever to figure out most of the stuff you put in there. I wouldn't have known most of the technical stuff if you hadn't mentioned it.
When you're done, maybe you should consider posting a link on blenderartists or blendernation. I really think this could be helpfull to a lot of Blender users.
I'll do so; far from done yet, tho.Yes, I ended up blending (in Gimp) render bakings and radiosity bakings, to produce a glow texture. Quite a mess. Anyways, my tutorial took a detour: I decided to do a rough UV mapping (using ArchiMap) and a set of textures, really quickly, just blendings of baking, just to get the show on the road, and for starlord and the other WC0 guys to have a ship they can start game-testing with. Here's a PR1.2 in-game screenshot, near Achilles base:Btw, emissive materials in Blender only work as lightsources in radiosity-renders (and some external renderers like YafRay). You're way of faking them is one solution. You could also fake them in the textures diff and glow.
Indeed, that's given me no end of trouble; but I'm still adamant on physics and optics realism. I think the problem is not so much the light's fall off, as much as the more general problem of displays and gamma correction and all that; and I have a plan to try and come up with a set of shaders to do a sort of automatic gamma adjustment --like a mini-HDR, without the fancy effects. I think the problem of gamma needs a global solution, rather than tweaking every light on every ship and unit.The falloff of the lights you use for illuminating the gangways and such is still to great IMO. I think it would help sell the illusion of size if you decreased the falloff.
Yeah, same here; ditto; not Blender's fault, IMO.Thats one of the areas where I'm still struggling with Blender, I'm always having to change all the light settings quadratice/sperical fallof and light-distance and intensity before I get it too look right.