General Question Galaxy Development

[The Shadow]

sorry about the lack of organization, my computer was acting up

 

[MJR]

I'll try it out.

 

[The Shadow]

by the way, i've been looking at your Atlas ICBM, it looks good from what i've seen.

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have you tried the ship yet?

 

[MJR]

Thanks. I haven't been able to fix it. I'll keep trying.

 

[The Shadow]

all right. i've started work on upgrading the textures, so that i'm not just copying the tutorials.

 

[MJR]

THats good. Texturing can get hard though. It takes time to get good at it.

 

[The Shadow]

i'm learning, spent all day yesterday doing just that.

so far i've located the docking port locations on the texture, i was think of making an indicator for where the docking ports are, they are tiny compared to the behemoth and an astronaut could get lost in there trying to find the docking ports.

 

[MJR]

Make them stand ot by different colors.

 

[The Shadow]

yeah, i was thinking blue but it looks odd since that color is not used anywhere else

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also in order to make it stand out well and not super blocky i'm going to have to increase the resolution of the texture

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question: on the default texture there is a white field around the edge that does not show up in orbiter. can i remove it?

 

[MJR]

Show me a picture real quick.

 

[The Shadow]

here it is

 

[The Shadow]

it's not all that important really, i'm just curious as to why it is there and yet does not show up in orbiter

 

[MJR]

I have no idea.

 

[The Shadow]

ok, just wondering, i'll leave it on untill i find out for sure

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the Mainbody texture is finished, i added bright yellow docking guides

UPDATE:finished the booster textures, added the name of the ship to the side. it wil look corny unless you manually rotate each of the boosters 90 degrees, i could not figure out how to move the whole texture to the side and then tile it.

 

[MJR]

How is your progress on this?

 

[The Shadow]

i sorta messed up one of the textures, but i cannot work on it right now

 

[MJR]

Are you almost done?

 

[The Shadow]

the old textures will work fine but i have not worked on it lately.

did you ever figure out the problem with it falling underground on launch?

 

[MJR]

I think it was because of the size of the spacecraft.

 

[The Shadow]

at least i never meant for it to be launched from the surface.