Black Templar vehicle skin ideas.

[MadMaffMan]

After asking on the Relic forums about the cause of the colour bleeding it turns out that it's a 'problem with the UV coordinates' on the original model, there is an overlap area on the top of the vehicle.

Mel Danes suggested a heavy dirt effect to help cover up the overlap area, i think it's much better now rather than having the middle of the Templar icon removed.



Think i'll try and spread the dirt out a little more to break up the 'dirt stripe' but at least that damn glitch is gone now.

[IBBoard]

Yeah, it's a pain when they UV things strangely, but such is life. A bit of tweaking on your dirt layer there and I'm sure it'll look fine though

What's it say on the front 'bumper'? Looks like AUDACIOUS or something

[MadMaffMan]

Well spotted.

Any idea where i got the name from.

[IBBoard]

Not a clue. I've got a general understanding of the meaning of the word, but I couldn't give you a perfect dictionary definition Something to do with the BT's style of battle?

[MadMaffMan]

I'm going to use the names of 'Ships Of The Line' that served under Nelson, guess i've been reading to much Patrick O'Brien lately.

[IBBoard]

Wouldn't have had a clue with that then! I wonder how many other people will notice it and make the connection Guess it depends how close they look!

[MadMaffMan]

Ooops.........see i forgot to supply you with screenies. My bad.

Thats what you get for working into the wee hours of the morning.

[IBBoard]

No, you did, I just remove them from the downloads so as not to waste bandwidth (most people will just want the texture, not an additional few hundred KB of screenies as well). I'll get round to cropping them to thumbnails and adding them soon

[MadMaffMan]

Thats ok then, there's no rush, just thought i'd left them out of the zip.

Good idea to remove them from the zip.

[IBBoard]

Yeah, its one of the things that always struck me as slightly stupid about DoWFiles - they'd have a 16KB banner, a 12KB badge and a 1KB .teamcolour and then leave in the three 500KB+ screenshots that someone had submitted. Now call me crazy if you want, but I'd rather download ~30KB that compresses down to ~15KB than somewhere around 1MB+ just for a single scheme!

I'll see if I can get them up tonight, but I'm not promising anything

[MadMaffMan]

I don't want you to waste the last of the weekend messing about with my screenies.

I've just noticed that you've moved to Hereford, you've not joined the SAS have you.

[IBBoard]

Yeah, and I know where every forum member lives - I can track it down from their IP address - so beware of my SAS leet skillz!


No, I'm not in the SAS - they'd never take me for one thing (unless they needed a programmer!) I work between Hereford and Worcester and since I drive but my fiancee doesn't then we kinda needed to live in one or the other. Hereford was a little further from work, but we got more for our rent and it's a nicer place than Worcester.

As for screenies - they're now up on the BT Rhino page It won't be the last of my weekend, only til 8pm when Abi'll finish writing for the night and we'll go and watch CSI.

Now to do some of the others that I've got backlogged!