- Mining missions now re-appear after shorter intervals.
- Three new mining missions added: Premium Ishik, Lanthanic, Apicene.
- New Advanced Training mission added: Welcome to Combat License 3!
- Updated Queen, Heavy Assault Cruiser and all bot textures.
- More compressed textures to lower video memory usage.
- NPCs can now enter bars.
- Fixed client-side memory leak.

Sounds good. Big download...

Anybody with a workable graphics card wand to post before-and-afters of the new textures?

Nice.
When I updated the changelog said "Vendetta 1.8.80" though... ;)

This is gonna take me a while...

But I'll wait with pleasure!!

NPCs can enter bars? Can they buy me drinks?

yes, but you have to ask the right way.

lalala ..another comparison. Some ships look totally different!

hac:
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/hacold.png
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/hacnew.png

queen:
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/queenold.png
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/queennew.png

smaller version:
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/queensmallold.png
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/queensmallnew.png

milanear transport:
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/milold.png
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/milnew.png

observer:
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/obsold.png
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/obsnew.png

overseer:
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/overseerold.png
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/overseernew.png

dentek assault:
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/tycorpold.png
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/tycorpnew.png

dunno what's up with the last one. Maybe it's a quirk in the modelview thingy. I'd have to find one in te wild.

edit: nope looks ok in the wild
edit2: ah I got the name wrong. That's a dentek assault. The golden overseers are also missing textures.

I like the new rusty looks on the queen.

Thanks for the mining missions inc , though local ishik price will often be 675 / cu .

I noticed an Aputech-17 Guardian I encountered looked like your dentek, spuck.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/53/dump0004.png

yeah ..looks like all the golden bots got whitified.

Also queens have orange lights now. That's so wrong ..the color of evil mutants is green not orange!

I think spuck is just confused about how to use the viewer, and his viewer's shaders are way out of date.

The big difference (aside from normal maps and stuff) is that the bot-ships are dynamically colored now. So you have to use the dynamic coloration feature to match the earlier color. Most of these "before and after" shots use different dynamic colors, which gives the impression that the color changed. It.. didn't. The queen isn't any more "rust" colored now than it was before. The overseer is not "gray" now. The queen's lights are not orange, they're just whatever color is dynamically defined for the whole object.

I dunno what the deal is with the blank Guardians. I emailed Ray.

I'll post some actual before-and-after shots next week, when I get a chance.

Huh ..I use the same widget that shows the rotating ship in the ship selection tab. I guess I'd have have to set the color now ..that makes sense. I left it at white in those shots.

edit: Shading wise I never really saw a difference between ingame shots and the ship viewer widget... other than that it's missing the engine glow

anyway .. I don't know the actual color so ..fear the green mutant overseer of doom!
http://kitchen.nfshost.com/ven/overseergreen.png

Yeah, all the gold bots will show up white for now. I patched the server to fix it in-game (not necessarily your mesh viewer).

The gold bot ship meshes are deprecated in favor of the blue canopy bots with dynamic coloring of gold.

Love what you've done with the textures. Goes a long way towards making VO's graphics look more "modern".

Wait: You can change the graphics now?

Nice differences :o