The Excelsior
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Polygon Count (triangles): 9,456 - Now we're talking!
Defuse Mapping: Er... no!
Light Mapping: 100% - Read bellow.
Normal Mapping: Not this time.
Ship Builder Hardware Mounts: As always.
In-Game Hull Size: Large.
Hours on "the machine": Hard to say. On and off, about 10 hours.
This is the first model with which I am actually satisfied with the polygon count. I set my goal at < 10,000k right from the start, and I had to hack and slash like a good 80ies horror movie in order to get the count down to that level.
Now I need everyone’s input here. I am using a different way of lighting this model in GalCiv. I have actually bypassed the entire lighting pass of the GalCiv2 engine (for the hulls only), so you no longer see any change in lighting from different perspectives. This allows for a more overall ambient lighting which I think is better for game play, but at the expense of realism (in the sense of actual space directional lighting). I want everyone to compare the in-game images of model with my previous conversions. Which in-game lighting style does everyone like? The previous method involved using only defuse textures and allowing GalCiv2 to apply its own lighting to each model, resulting in some of the model going black when unlit and becoming somewhat difficult to see against the void of space. Now compare that method with this model that uses textures as light maps, overriding GalCiv2’s lighting engine. I think that I prefer this method best.
This ship is shown at its proper scale (large). Again, please post if you are interested in using this mod. I’m always trying to see how many people are going to download it.
Here is the ship list so far:
| Cargo: |
 Oberth Model A (120m) | [WIP] |
| Oberth Model B (120m) | |
| Tiny: | Shuttle (~10m) |
[Finished. link] |
| Delta Flyer (~10m) |
[Finished. link] |
| Small: | Danube Runabout, MAYBE! <mumbles something about ds9 fans> | |
| Medium: |
Magellan (?m) |
[Finished. link]
I might redo. |
 NX (225m) | |
 Miranda (Reliant) (243m) |
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 Defiant (120m) |
[Finished.link] |
| Large: |
 Intrepid (344m) | [WIP] |
 Excelsior (467m) | [Finished.] |
 Prometheus (414m) |
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| Huge: |
 Galaxy (643m),
 Sovereign (685m),
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Cheers.
-Brian
spleeze@gmail.com
