The Open Part Mod - Week of 4/11 project started

[Orionkermin]

Awesome parts so far guys. Here is something simple I`m working on:

http://i.imgur.com/LZyHLlE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0ClJmVh.jpg

Awesome! Don't suppose you'd mind sharing how you did the foil effect and how you set it up in unity would you? I've had trouble getting mine to look right. For instance it tends to look better in unity than in game.

[mordin86]

Awesome! Don't suppose you'd mind sharing how you did the foil effect and how you set it up in unity would you? I've had trouble getting mine to look right. For instance it tends to look better in unity than in game.

Edited April 15, 2014 by mordin86

[Tiberion]

Uncheck "Create from Creyscale" and it won't alter the bumpmap like that. (It should give you more control over the results then.)

Not that it looks bad, mind you. That would be a pretty swell foam insulator texture too.

Edited April 15, 2014 by Tiberion

[mordin86]

here's my entry, I think it looks ok:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7e3m83y3tnbnqek/mlabauxtankv1.rar

Uncheck "Create from Creyscale" and it won't alter the bumpmap like that. (It should give you more control over the results then.)

awesome, thanks for the tip!

Edited April 16, 2014 by mordin86

[mordin86]

here is updated cfg tht makes my tank smaller (just replace the old one): https://www.dropbox.com/s/7e3m83y3tnbnqek/mlabauxtankv1.rar

it fits better now:

Edited April 16, 2014 by mordin86

[frizzank]

Also if you turn up the specularity in unity and give it a high contrast spec map in the alpha channel, you will also get better results.

[Orionkermin]

OK here's an update of my part. I want to thank mordin86, tiberion, and frizzank for their help and input regarding better foil. (Even if not all of it was directed towards me) I learned a lot today about normal maps and specular maps.

I also wanted to say thanks again to Nathenkell for his crossfeedenabler plugin, my part now works with it and I've included it in the download.

fixed the link

Edited April 16, 2014 by Orionkermin

[blackheart612]

OK here's an update of my part. I want to thank mordin86, tiberion, and frizzank for their help and input regarding better foil. (Even if not all of it was directed towards me) I learned a lot today about normal maps and specular maps.

I also wanted to say thanks again to Nathenkell for his crossfeedenabler plugin, my part now works with it and I've included it in the download.

http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y477/morrowindorion/2014-04-15_00001_zpsb712f73b.png

https://www./folder/undefined/

This looks epic, man. ._.

[NathanKell]

Neat! (And you're most welcome, obvs!). One thing though--the "crinkles" on the foil look rather large. It gives the effect of a quite small tank, which, since those tanks appear about a meter long each, might not be what you intend?

Maybe you could overlay that with a weaker, smaller set of crinkles?

[mordin86]

here is the the final version of my tank with the great crossfeedenabler plugin by Nathenkell (all included in the download). Just ignore the previous links.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7e3m83y3tnbnqek/mlabauxtankv1.rar

OK here's an update of my part. I want to thank mordin86, tiberion, and frizzank for their help and input regarding better foil. (Even if not all of it was directed towards me) I learned a lot today about normal maps and specular maps.

I also wanted to say thanks again to Nathenkell for his crossfeedenabler plugin, my part now works with it and I've included it in the download.

http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y477/morrowindorion/2014-04-15_00001_zpsb712f73b.png

https://www./folder/undefined/

You could try smaller set of crinkles but it looks nice as it is now too.

Edited April 16, 2014 by mordin86

[pizzaoverhead]

You could try smaller set of crinkles but it looks nice as it is now too.

I think their scale is pretty close that of the Apollo lander as they are now, though the high-contrast specular map that frizzank mentioned would make it look less like a crushed pipe.

[Orionkermin]

I think their scale is pretty close that of the Apollo lander as they are now, though the high-contrast specular map that frizzank mentioned would make it look less like a crushed pipe.

Hmm I thought that I did have a high contrast specular map. Does it not have to be in the texture's alpha Chanel?

[The Space Man]

OK here's an update of my part. I want to thank mordin86, tiberion, and frizzank for their help and input regarding better foil. (Even if not all of it was directed towards me) I learned a lot today about normal maps and specular maps.

I also wanted to say thanks again to Nathenkell for his crossfeedenabler plugin, my part now works with it and I've included it in the download.

http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y477/morrowindorion/2014-04-15_00001_zpsb712f73b.png

https://www./folder/undefined/

Link appears to be down.

[Orionkermin]

Link appears to be down.

This one should work

Don't know what happened sorry.

[frizzank]

I think the scale of the crinkles if fine, remember these are small parts. I think we all put way more detail in them than necessary, myself included, but that's ok, it was a modeling exercise.

Edited April 16, 2014 by frizzank

[DMagic]

Most of the time your not going to zoom in any more than this when playing the game. So they should look their best at that distance.

That's exactly what I was thinking. They look fine at the relatively normal levels of zoom in your other pictures, it's only the closeup where the crinkles look a little bit deep.

If you're like me this problem of adding too much details is exacerbated by the way I work in Blender. Because I find it hard to work with small parts I do everything at 10X scale in Blender and spend a lot of time zoomed in very close. So by the time I get the parts into KSP I realize that a lot of the detail isn't even visible or noticeable at regular zoom levels.

Edited April 16, 2014 by DMagic

[Silvester]

I get a headache making my model low poly since it has many poly to reduce

small rcs tank has 10k vert lol

[Orionkermin]

A lot of my art experience prior to taking up modding comes from miniature painting. Often times with that the most important details are often the ones that you can see across the table. I think this may be the reason I tend to enlarge detail elements a bit as well as exaggerating highlights a bit much at times.

[frizzank]

Exactly, if your going to put detail in something make sure you can see it. Sometimes that means an unrealistic scale of parts but that is ok for a game like Kerbal.

[Naf5000]

@Orionkermin

I don't suppose you might make a version of that with non-foil plated tanks? I really, really don't like the way gold foil looks. On anything. I just sorta ignore the way LV-909s look. You don't have to, obviously, since that's the only problem I see about the design and it's a problem only I have, but still... Please?

[Nertea]

All of these parts are really pretty . I wish I had time to contribute a model - perhaps for the next part.

[Tiberion]

Alright, I took some time today to remap the tanks, split things up so that middle section can be higher rez for the text. Looks good in game now, with bumpmapping. At this point I am calling it done for this one.

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Re: scale; It probably needs to be smaller to be appropriate for the specified amount of fuel, which is a simple config edit. That tiny amount of fuel is pretty useless though, so I didn't bother with it. I actually plan to use the part for the basis of something later, anyway.

I'll pack up everything and attach it to this post later.

Here's the image to link: http://i.imgur.com/zqx7nbj.png

Here's the download with part folder + UnityPackage. Cfg file has the module for Nathan's xfeed plugin, URL for that is in the README if you can't find it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46506740/OpenPartWeek1-Tiberion.zip

And again, I'm not really entering the contest, I was just playing along at home. I need to work on being more efficient, it took me longer than it should have.

Edited April 17, 2014 by Tiberion

[tygoo7]

Nice parts guys! I'm waiting for the next challenge to contribute to this mod.

[mordin86]

When attached to the small tanks my part was not touching their surface.

Small cosmetic issue but it was bugging me a lot lol so

I`v made tiny model update:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/14qek6ubtuzgoow/mlabauxtank%20update.rar

here is how it should look on small tanks now:

[CaptainKipard]

When attached to the small tanks my part was not touching their surface.

Small cosmetic issue but it was bugging me a lot lol so

I`v made tiny model update:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/14qek6ubtuzgoow/mlabauxtank%20update.rar

Another way would have been to move the node attach inward a bit.