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Textures still look ugly on some parts of the ship, the antenna on the top and bottom front. And I get the impression someone sliced the Hyperion in half and tried to glue it together.

IMHO this needs more work.. or is there some DEV that could shed some light on this? I always get the impression that the bigger the ship is the more ugly the textures turn out to be.

Or are the art DEVs still working on the battleships?

(Just noticed the new exhaust graphical animation, must admit... very nifty)

The new V3 Textures are awesome nice shiny. One request. Please redo the engine fire.

i mean more heat texture appearance instead of engine trails. The new textures aren't good enuff for the VEXOR.

the uppon texture of the cockpit seems to be stretched around the corner. It is unsharp just a bad paint job.

On the topic of textures, could we please get the turrets to change textures to match faction ships, too. Right now, they change per race, but not for pirate faction ships. Like the gold lasers on the nightmare for example. I know the pirate faction guns have a varied color themselves, but a lot of us would like our t2 turrets to match our ships also XD

CCP stated somewhere that remodeling one ship (and all variants) takes almost two months. To remodel every ship in the game would take a tremendous amount of art resources. Years of work involved.

Instead, they will V3 all the ships and objects in space (stations, LCOs, drones, stargates, etc), and remodel a ship or two here and there. Eventually they'll rework all the ships, but that is a long long ways down the road.

As for the mismatched color schemes. Yes, it's a bug. Yes, they've already fixed it. It just hasn't been updated on SiSi yet, but it looks correct on the private Dev servers.

Read what I wrote again please.

I said they are remodeling a ship or two here and there. Not all of them. Not yet. That will take too long. For now, they are just V3'ing everything.

In addition, they aren't doing some single layer texture in photoshop/GIMP, and no, it does not take twenty seconds to skin an EVE ship.

All of this must be redone for every ship in the game, and again for every faction/T2 variant of the ship. The Tech 3 ships need that done once for every subsystem. They're also adding ship skins, which requires more variants to be done.

Then they have the starbases, stations, asteroids, drones, stargates, LCO's, and more to do. All based on this new texture system. It's Trinity 2.0, with even more work than the first one.

Granted, they've streamlined the process a lot by using newer technologies, but the fact remains that it's a lot of work. You can't just fire up GIMP, spend twenty seconds smearing some shiny gold around with the paintbrush, and end up with an Apoc skin. Sorry, but it doesn't work that way.

The smile is still there, it's just creepier now.

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/Davidshky/20111105141433.jpg

they aren't really separate. remodeling is part of the V3 project, but it's the most work intensive part and isn't something they're trying to do on a large scale. Just bit by bit.

id love it if the deimos wasnt camo'd. cuz the phobos looks fuckin badass son.

i think v3ing is a good initiative to get ahead with those design wrecks but can't be an excuse to not remodel the ships - it's the vast part that needs a makeover badly;

please revert the exhaust color for amarr and gallente - it now has a hue towards violet which is just not pretty;

the 'water' effect on caldari engines is great though - especially close up;

The Rokh texture is not correctly aligned, and has a clear join line down the entire centre of the ship which breaks the cosmetic appearance of the wonderful new texture for it.