looking forward to your next ship set drop!

I guess the starting point would be to understand what the channels do in each texture.

The Specular file is:
Red - recolour map
Green - Spec
Blue - Metal
Alpha - Gloss [inverse of rough]

Normal is:
Red and Green - normal red
Blue - emissive
Alpha - normal green


PBR texturing is half art and half science. You need to get a feel for how different values look in-game. Stellaris' metalness for instance is a little different than how Blender might render it.

Keep in mind you can make changes to textures during the game and reload with the console command:
"reload texture"

I know this is a time consuming process which most would not bother to explain, but if you could, what would be the checklist of things to do in order to achieve a textured model in stellaris. I understand how to place it in game with a texture, but the technical steps, I can't piece together, Blender > Texture with nodes> export as just a diffuse> make norm and spec maps with image software > tweak the channels > jorodox to apply. something like that idk I've modeled the SDF ships from Infinite warfare but I'm not sure what to do next about textures. The tools i'm mainly use are - Gimp, Blender and jorodox. help would be appreciated

You've got a couple of options depending on how much money you want to spend!

You can look for any PBR based texturing tool. On the cheap though, if you look for a height to normal map converter you can 'easily' make a greyscale height map from your textures in Photoshop or something and then convert it that way.

Hi there, im working on a custom shipset for my mod and I was wondering how you made your normal and specular maps? I'm using Gimp.

I also have an unorthodox suggestion for a shipset. I suggest the hysperians due to how unique their stuff looks. Might need more creativity for them since I think they only have one ship the monaveen but it looks cool.

On a priority list where would the shipsets for the Orions, Tellarites, and Andorians be currently?

Weird request if you're ever up for it, but, a Herald/Iconian ship set would be cool

Are there any downscaled ships patches anywhere?

Possibly, but preparing for 4.0 is my priority right now.

i mean ships

do we get more species soon like voth vaadwaur 8472/undine Turei Iconians

Picture 2 and 3 is when a PC Case Company makes a Star Ship

Zionus - I'm not sure. A lot of the designs included here were never released in STO itself, but were shown off as concept art during the community vote events.

Urban - thanks! Andorians will probably not be too far off, other work dependent.

These look amazing, I'd love to see some Andorian or Breen shipsets in the future to use outside of New Civilizations. These are all so well done and I had to get all of them and every new one that releases

Is ST online stilll doing stuff with these guys? I quit playing when they took the foundry down.

@anton would be the one Walshicus shipset I don’t download. I like a couple of their ship designs, but most of them are so drastically different, I have to force myself through their era in NC

Disco Shipset

ah, jeeze. another one with no compatibility for the 4th most downloaded mod on stellaris.

@KayinDreemurr yes i think the same ^^

Oooooo. This one is pretty!

Very much hoping the Andorians are next.

I have no clue who the Lukari are, but these still look cool~!

Very nice!!!

I don't know who the Lukari are, I'm guessing from Star Trek Online. But regardless, this is a fantastic shipset. Excellent work!

HELLYEAH! Thanks! One more shipset for my Playset(s).

Ack, heh wrong link. Thanks for the heads up, it's changed now.

This organization can't accept donations right now.

Tzenkethi need a lot of work to get a set out of.

Next standalone set might be Andorians, but it'll be a while away due to some STNC content that's taking priority.

So are the Tzenkethi ships planned for the near future?

Om nom nom good shipsets

Lukari who? LMAO. Walshicus is the Uber-Grand-Ship-Architect-Of-The-Universe! It really doesnt matter if I know what a Lukari is, I just know a freaking good shipset when I see one! Yeah Buddy! Hey Walshicus, I am looking for some Battlestar Galactica Ship-set Love, any interest? also NSC compatibility is really a good thing. Thanks Buddy, be well. Happier already.

These standalone shipsets are always a joy! Excellent work!

nice

Great Job!