Tie Texturing Initiated

Tie Texturing
19/11/2016
Vasil Nikolov

Hello one and all again to the blog, For the next 3 blog posts, I will be discussing how the texturing of each ship went. The reason for the shortness of this section is that similarly to the update section there were not that much items to be done.

So let us start with the smallest and probably quickest ship to be textured.

 For the model, the two most important materials to be used were the "Blin" (Seen around the entire body and outer/Inner solar panels on the wings) and the "Phong" (Used for the creation of the lovely glass panel). The reason for using the Blin material in stead of the standard Lambert was that the Lambert made the fighter look very bland. Also in all of the Star Wars Books, the imperial navy was always portrayed with vehicles that were always clean, polished or shiny. This is why it was more appropriate to use the slightly more expensive (come rendering) but still light material, known as blin. This made the fighter look more polished and closer to the real model.

 The front glass panel of the Tie fighter was done with the most expensive (come rendering) material from the 3 that one used for his models. The "Phong" is known to give the effect of polished glass or metall of the chrome alloy. This is why, it was used for the window panel. It was possible to use the Blin as well, however, it did not give the same polished effect as this one did.

 Finally the back of the fighter received the same treatment as the front of the cruiser`s tower. For more info, check the previous post.

 Overall the model look very nice and realistic with the current colours and is worth some brownie points.