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PBR does do a good job of showing off how much some of the ships need an improvement in their textures.
PBR is looking good as a system, but only gets a 7/10 from me because of how bad some of the textures are. Some of the ships look off color (even if it is more accurate to what was painted, some ships, especially pirate ships, have become much less accurate to what we are used to from all these years and come to expect), or plasticky.

Speaking of related things, what do you guys use besides just textures? I thought you guys used bump and normal maps, but after examining a few ships (eg. kestrel), some of the details appear to be just painted on and not corrected for with a normal map so are still obviously flat from an angle (eg. the hardpoint greebles on the kestrel)

Also, how IS that ship repainting coming along?

That dev blog was oddly arousing. Those math and technicals....

I smell a min spec increase on its way.

You have no idea how much I agree with your whole post

I'd rather wait for new POSes! Its more likely to happen first, and in my opinion there are a lot of very cool possibilities to do with them.

"dynamic dirt levels (older ships showing their age?)"

YES PLEASE! I can also think this would allow dynamic damage on the hull, right?

On the dirty ships idea, I've always thought about what EVE would be like with a system that allowed a ship to "get old". Sort of like that trusty Corellian freighter that looks like crap but can still make the Kessel run in only 18 parsecs! It's not a gamechanger, but I think it would add a whole new dimension to ship ownership. It's the little things that make me excite! :)

If you dont mind me asking, do you see if the player is using Linux being played through Wine or does it just pop up with the emulated copy of Windows?

[quote=Sailor Antimatter]Wonderful!! It's lovely to see the math and explanations behind this :)[/quote

For me, the maths looked like abstract art.

And meant about as much to me.

So, my ATI Radeon HD7970 GPU runs this stuff no problem at max settings using DX9, because dx11 crashes regularly. Everything looks great... except shadows. Shadows cast by solid physical objects onto another portion of the same object, ie the new Blackbird/Falcon/Rook models, are mottled like they were cast by the sun seen through the leaves of a tree, or overhead camoflage.

I sincerely hope that in the future, normal space rending will omit or tone down the brightest star / sun auras and nebulae. Some of these sun spots... if I may be permitted, are so damn bright I am temporarily blinded by them, as contrasted by surrounding space. The background brightness is so bad that I cannot read much of 'white' text that accompanies items highlighted on my sensor's overlays.

When I look upward towards a night-time sky... all I see is black. I have never seen a ruddy brown star field, or crimson red, or a golden yellow. Please apply some 'real world' rendering in your next overhaul... and maybe place more 'emphasis' brightening up the 'objects' that are contained in space rather than the areas of space themselves.


Respectfully Submitted,
LTC Vuvovich