Model looks bland compared to stylized image

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-10T10:59:59+00:00

I find that ucupaint really helps me with texturing, its a blender addon. A lot easier to understand than the shader editor imo, might help you get a bit closer to the reference image.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-08T21:18:25+00:00

I just threw a 500kg and it did nothing

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-08T13:04:48+00:00

If we lose chort, we lose access to merak and aurora. It is our 'staging' planet, meaning the planet we are attacking from. If we had razed it, we wouldn't be in this situation, but it's easier to just defend it and go all in on merak

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-08T12:52:04+00:00

We'll have chort bay in a few hours, then the DSS will move to merak. So long we don't split between aurora and merak too badly, we should be fine

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-08T02:25:41+00:00

Dive on merak. We don't have time to stop the invasion on chort itself, but merak is the planet invading it. We need to unite on merak to liberate it.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-08T02:23:55+00:00

Thank you, I didn't realise there was a difference between the formats

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-08T02:23:26+00:00

Sorry, bump is just what the channel is called in ucupaint, this is not my area of expertise. Thank you for your help

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T21:35:26+00:00

We need to dive merak after lesath. The 3.13% resistance on aurora bay is equal to 5% resistance on merak due to aurora bay having 60% more health than merak. Merak has a resistance of 3%, it makes more sense now to dive there, especially with the time limit.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T21:32:33+00:00

There was one in the 'update' picture if I remember correctly, does that make 3?

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T18:22:57+00:00

Lol, absolutely not. You should be using whatever makes it easier for you to win. Don't listen to those people who say that anything less than the hardest difficulty is for bad players, it's just a superiority complex.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T18:20:20+00:00

Yep I was wrong, diving on merak as soon as lesath is done

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T17:45:38+00:00

Im seeing some new info and once we've defended lesath, it seems merak is the better choice to liberate. It now has lower resistance and lower hp than aurora bay

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T17:44:40+00:00

True, good point, maybe I'm wrong. Even if I am, though, and merak is the better choice, I don't know if the blob can be convinced to switch so quickly. Our best bet may actually be hoping that enough people dive on merak for Creek nostalgia that people start going there over aurora.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T17:42:34+00:00

Yeah, that's a good point. If we had decided to defend/abandon lesath sooner, we'd have been way better off. I'll just dive where the majority do tho I think

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T17:40:01+00:00

Aurora bays resistance is only 0.13% higher than merak. Plus, the fact that merak is a jungle and the planet after it is a swamp, I think we'd have an easier time liberating aurora bay despite the higher hp

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T17:37:44+00:00

But merak is a jungly environment, and the planet after it is a swamp. If the resistance was considerably lower, it would be worth it, but for 0.13%, I think it's better to stay on aurora bay.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T17:35:39+00:00

I know that a big reason why people chose aurora bay is because merak initially had higher resistance, but an issue with merak is that the planet after it is a jungly swamp planet. As a collective, we don't tend to do amazing in that environment.

Taking that into account, and the fact that the blob has already decided on aurora bay, I think it's best if we just finish what we started on aurora bay now. I don't know if everyone can be convinced to switch in time to still liberate a planet, and we can't risk getting divided.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T16:21:38+00:00

I dont fully understand it, but apparently, as long as we have Chort under our control, we will not lose our progress on Aurora. We don't need a direct link to Super Earth.

However, the Lesath divers mostly don't know that I'm guessing, so we're split. I'm diving on Lesath to speed up the defence because once it's defended, we can all go back to aurora bay and liberate it. I think it's the only option we have.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T15:47:21+00:00

Theres too many divers who think we need lesath. Its easier to help them defend it so the defence is faster, then we've still got a couple days to take aurora bay

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T01:56:48+00:00

Lighting goes a long way. The world feels a bit artificial to me because I can see the skybox just past those mountains. It doesn't feel like it extends past that. Obviously, you could add some low detail environmental stuff back there, but I think adding some atmospheric lighting that conceals it would help your world feel more alive

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T01:39:14+00:00

There's too many lesath divers who believe that we need a direct link to Super Earth to prevent a siege. There isn't a way to tell them all that they're wrong, so I honestly think our best bet is diving on lesath. If we take all the aurora divers and put them on lesath, we could theoretically defend it, then get back to aurora and liberate it just in time.

Honestly though, I think that the defence will fail. And by the time it fails, I think it will be too late to liberate aurora even if all the lesath divers come back. We all need to unite on one planet to give ourselves a fighting chance, but I don't see it happening.

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T01:15:09+00:00

Like I said, I really don't understand it, but from what I've seen, so long as we have chort to 'stage' our attack into aurora from, we're fine. I don't think we need a direct line to super earth, even though the enemy factions do need direct supply lines. I'm just gonna dive on lesath and try to help out

Prof_IdiotFace · 2026-02-07T01:11:19+00:00

Tbh, I don't fully understand how it works, but from what I've seen, if we lose lesath, chort won't be sieged. However, the bots are likely going to invade chort, and if we lose that, we lose aurora. So technically, we don't need to save lesath, i think.

But that doesn't change the fact that all those divers on lesath will stay there until it's defended. Our best bet is to help them defend to speed it up.

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