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My view on re-imaging the Zolons into a more alienish/advanced setup








And yes, firepower firepower FIREPOWER!!!

and again:
droooll

[X(][X(][X(][X(][X(][X(][&o][&o][&o][&o] Awesome! Freaking AWESOME!!!!
This is the way Damocles!!![:-][&o][&o][:D]
You are scoring homerun after homerun... can't wait to see something like this implemented in SS...[:D]
A big salute to you!!!

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last shot just scream B5 ...Two huge Green cannons lighting you up... [:-]
Now don't make them so God awful powerfull [:D]

Just the start my friend

going to redo them all.. using this texture set.

and I"m going to build those ellierium whatever aliens we never saw

i"m thinking they sound like uber advanced aliens... maby city ships or something along that way
they sould like they are thin too.. gangly

Yeah! That should be great, flying cities, etc.
My wife thinks that ZZC looks "Macabre" so you are obviously on the right track!!![:D]
Zolon ships don't have point defense, but their shields and beam weapons are the most powerfull in the game (even their fighters and LCA have shields).[:D]
Looking forward to see the Zolon fleet recognition guide![:D][&o][8|]
Any ideas on the Ele'an?

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Uhh... the Ele'aan Fusion is off limits if you want this story to make any sense at all when it gets to the end.


And the Fusion is not... "gangly"... in the usual sense of that word.

... an answer from God!... wow tell us more please.... [:D][&o][&o]

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now that sounds good


btw

do these pics look dark to you guys? I gues checked them at school and I could barly see them, yet here at home I can see every detail fine?

I have my gamma on default... maby its something else?

The third Pic is a bit dark here at work, but the rest look just fine to me.

ya that one is ment to be, its showing off the areas of the ship that would glow.

They look fine, it must have been a gamma issue.

a bit dark, but then again I use a Mac monitor. Better color vibrance this way..PC monitors are so washed out....

I guess all monitors are different even if they are same model. In school some of the monitors are too dark even when brightness and contrast are set to max. Colour temperatures too low I guess or then monitors are crap. In my dad's monitor those looks nice, but I'd guess this is too bright. I don't remember what they look on my high quality 19" CRT (cost me almost 350 € ).

Pheagey, I honestly didn't know it isn't possible use one monitor in PC and Mac...

what the hell!

Those are awesome textures!

ORIGINAL: Pheagey

a bit dark, but then again I use a Mac monitor. Better color vibrance this way..PC monitors are so washed out....

It depends on the monitor, not if it´s MAC or PC. The "darkness" (you probaly mean the gama, that´s what different between MAc and PC) is a matter of your monitor calibration. If you have a proper calibrated monitor then the colors etc. etc. are the same on a "MAC Monitor" and a "PC Monitor" [;)]

I for example use a hardware calibrated NEC MultiSync LCD 2180UX (one of the few LCDs that you can actually use and pay if you work in design and print), and I have to say that the textures are just right.

ORIGINAL: Matti Kuokkanen

I guess all monitors are different even if they are same model. In school some of the monitors are too dark even when brightness and contrast are set to max. Colour temperatures too low I guess or then monitors are crap. In my dad's monitor those looks nice, but I'd guess this is too bright. I don't remember what they look on my high quality 19" CRT (cost me almost 350 € ).

Pheagey, I honestly didn't know it isn't possible use one monitor in PC and Mac...

True, even same monitor models vary, sometimes a lot.

That´s where hadware calibration comes into play.

If you buy a hardware calibration kit then you could calibrate all monitors to a certain target value. That way you will have matching colors and gama on all monitors.

Correct colors is pain in the a.. And only very few consumers have a calibrated monitor. Most poeple simply plug it in and adjust it to their likings, which in most cases is way of the "real" color. And then their come all the bad influences into play too. Like a light source from behind, or the front, light clothes (that reflect on the screen), bad ambience light and tons of other factors.

Holy bumpmaps!