is crawling along at full: 92.93% Elapsed: 57h 5m

Weird mixture of excitement, anticipation and frustration. 

nice, is this some portal joke? 

i just wanted to post 

hi, welcome to func. is this your first time? 

Even at 93%, your still not that close from it being done. Just keep hanging in there. 

it's just a temporary thing, like the christmas logo. 

Finally remembered to link the CrazyBump tool at work since I haven't been texturing recently.

Very well received, thanks for the link. 

Demo is out... go play it! 

... but read the smallprint. 

Send me cake!!!

http://steamcommunity.com/id/generic_maps 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZvxYHp8FvI
Quake Mission Pack I & II promo video 

thanks spirit. I like how they made sure you accept no substitutes, by blowing up the word "substitutes". I won't accept any, thanks! Far too dangerous to do so. 

im looking at spaceship designs (the realistic scifi stuff) atm for level design inspiration - why are spaceships always designed in a way that the surface is so rough and uneven, but still has some sort of hull? http://www.artships.com/2005/rbr_top_quarter.jpg http://www.artships.com/2005/exelon_front_side.jpg

this freighter seems to make some sense: http://www.artships.com/2002/truck_front.jpg

im trying to look at things this way: how would large scale invasion spaceships work and look? 

one thing that real spaceships already use and will need in the future is radiators to get rid of the waste heat that is produced. For example, when you generate electricity, there will be waste heat. And usually, the bigger the ship, the less surface area it has in relation to mass so more of the surface must be covered in radiators.

ISS has radiators protruding from the trusses, they are somewhat smaller and more "cranked" than the solar panels and have fluid flowing inside them. Shuttle has the radiators on the back side of the payload bay doors, so the doors have to be opened on orbit. 

the boiler-plate detailing is intended to imply functional, mass-production manufacture and construction that belies deeper technology beneath all those panels and stuff. fancy slick things that are all one smooth shape don't feel so real and accessible - they're more fantastic. 

you need to open up places to exchange components... Like in ships. Yet the hull that is in the water is quite smooth, for obvious reasons. The changes have to be done from the other side. For spaceships there can or then perhaps can not be reasons for that. Heat or micrometeoroid shielding comes as one that would facilitate building a big smooth continuous shield on one side and having all the greebles and hatches etc on the other side... 

Shuttle has the radiators on the back side of the payload bay doors, so the doors have to be opened on orbit.

So how do they keep the bats out? 

http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10826 

why didn't anyone else notice that, I guess spaceship conceptual design has been completely wrong for forty years, good call bamz! 

they wouldn't look as cool. That's why Star Wars et al >>> Star Trek. 

If there are magical force fields then you don't need any physical shielding on the ship. Or if the ship stays in space and doesn't go to atmospheres. Or doesn't move very fast so debris isn't a problem. One of the problems is that when you move at significant fraction of light speed, even tiny debris hits will destroy you unless you have some shielding. Probably everybody knows about Arthur C. Clarke's idea of flying a disk of ice far in front of the craft's flight path. This all is for interstellar journeys of course. Also you might want to minimize the frontal area so make the craft long and thin.

But if you assume some jump / teleportation technology, then all that doesn't matter, as it's possible that you never have to physically move that fast.

So before looking at what the spaceships would be like, you have to look at what they are used for and what technology is available.

And metl's moths: if someone had made that up, everybody would dismiss it as impossible. Who would have thought?! 

great, exactly the kind of stuff i wanted =D

The scenario would be as realistic as possible in my case. 

The scenario would be as realistic as possible in my case.

That rules out artificial gravity, except as created by centrifuge. 

You don't need centrifuge if you're ship has a constant acceleration of 1g, just gotta turn the ship around at the midway point, or walk on the ceiling for the second half of the trip! 

I'm interested in this stuff so come to irc if you wanna discuss...