[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/feature-requests/474 Item 474] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 20:20:07

First I have to tell you folks that the big U.F.O.s look beautiful & are a work of art & top design. I love the looks.
But now that I am making the new animations & see the possibilities experimenting & programming the material system, I would like to have some of the textures in the U.F.O.s replaced. Please do not misunderstand me, I love the whole design, but in some cases the same textures for the monitors are next to each other.
This has the effect that there will be the same material on them applied & I cannot program them seperately. I do not want the textures even to be replaced with different textures, I just need the same textures there, but with names changed, so I can program a new animation 4 them...

@kildor : I should be ready with the first wave of the new textures Sunday & I would be very happy if you would use them for the new gunship ;)
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====== mcr2010 (2010-03-23 18:00:56) ======

I hope it is no problem if I assign this one to you, Kildor, but I think you are the U.F.O.-man in charge ;)
====== mcr2010 (2010-03-23 20:30:37) ======

Examples.jpg
====== kildor (2010-03-24 04:22:02) ======

Are you sure in this screenshot? it looks ugly and undetailed.
====== mcr2010 (2010-03-24 09:18:20) ======

The screenshot is ugly indeed ;) I saved it with full jpg compression...
I made this picture only to show you which textures I mean ;)
If we would replace those with the same textures, but with different names, we could program each monitor individually via the material system...
How is the gunboat work going ?
====== natewr (2010-03-30 09:26:33) ======

MCR, if you make the textures swapping them out on the UFO map file will be pretty easy. Just be clear which textures are to go where.
====== mcr2010 (2010-03-30 15:52:45) ======

Thanx, Nate.
I will make the replacements, put them into tex_ufo & post screenshots here of the textures which have to be replaced ;)
I have no time & am lacking experience to mess around with UFORadiant (yet) ;)
I just want (more or less) copies applied to the textures of all the monitors & control-panels, which are used more than once on the same U.F.O.
Then I would be able to play different animations on each monitor & control panel...
I will make the replacements, so that there will be small differences to to be able to differentiate them, when 'programming' the material system...
Greetinx.
====== mcr2010 (2010-04-15 20:08:22) ======

Will close this as this is not necessary anymore...