[Hades]

The high-poly Lucifer is closer to the cutscene version than the FS1 Lucifer.

And I was talking about the CUTSCENE ARCADIA not having the detail as the last three versions of IceyJones' Arcadia.

So?
It doesn't have to be low poly...
Besides it has normal maps.

[Ghost]

Personally, I prefer the 4th Arcadia posted. Looks the best to me.

[Cobra]

The high-poly Lucifer is closer to the cutscene version than the FS1 Lucifer.

And I was talking about the CUTSCENE ARCADIA not having the detail as the last three versions of IceyJones' Arcadia.

So?
It doesn't have to be low poly...
Besides it has normal maps.

That's the thing though, I think IceyJones wants to make the cutscene moderately FS-ish.

[IceyJones]

as i dont liked the clean look of the vasuda-movie, i experimented today with scene-motion blur.....i fear that this whole detail discussion became worthless unfortunately, as the scene blur terminates a lot of detail but leads to a more realistic look and a great sence for the speed of the ships in this whole thing....tomorrow i will post some examples....

but thanks a lot for your input here.....

[IceyJones]

okay....just saw, that it is already "tomorrow"



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[Ghost]

Definitely looking very, very good. Keep it up.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

slight rework of the interceptor....finished now

 

Woohoo! That's awesome! Put it up as a wallpaper, won't you?

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They're looking good, you're looking good, the birds are singing, and the sun is (not literally) shining. Keep up the good work. Those are some grand images indeed.

[IceyJones]

when i find some time i make a beautyrendering of the interceptor....

but first of all the nebula, lucy will emerge of.....the volume-cloud i tested was not possible in the scene. the rendertimes exploded, as the scene itself is HUUUUGE! damn capital-ship sizes in FS . this leads to real huge shadowmaps generated by the renderer......and these need time for calculating. and it´s getting even worse, when we habe volumetrics in the scene like fire. nebulas, etc....

so i fear my pyrocluster-explosion will also not work and i will have to go back to volumetric lights.....

regarding the nebula:
so i made a polygon-mesh of the nebula and set a nebula/transparency/alpha-texture-mix on it.....i´m pretty happy with the look. i think it´s okay also this way....


EDIT:
does anyone know, how long an interceptor-missile is?!

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[Vidmaster]

that's it! that's the scene!      no add a majestic looking Orion 

[Cobra]

The nebula looks... weird.

[CKid]

looks like a liquid more then gas.

[IceyJones]

we have to go the way with the geometric-based nebula, as vol-lights are to bright in the required mass, real clouds kill my rendertimes, so thats the only solution....but i will tweak the colours a bit more....nevertheless this type of nebulas are quite common in space. filaments, no fluffy clouds...like this hubble shot....only with colour

[Cobra]

It looks too hard to be a nebula, soften up a little.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

when i find some time i make a beautyrendering of the interceptor....

but first of all the nebula, lucy will emerge of.....the volume-cloud i tested was not possible in the scene. the rendertimes exploded, as the scene itself is HUUUUGE! damn capital-ship sizes in FS . this leads to real huge shadowmaps generated by the renderer......and these need time for calculating. and it´s getting even worse, when we habe volumetrics in the scene like fire. nebulas, etc....

so i fear my pyrocluster-explosion will also not work and i will have to go back to volumetric lights.....

regarding the nebula:
so i made a polygon-mesh of the nebula and set a nebula/transparency/alpha-texture-mix on it.....i´m pretty happy with the look. i think it´s okay also this way....


EDIT:
does anyone know, how long an interceptor-missile is?!

Hmm, maybe...one-fifth the length of a Herc?

we have to go the way with the geometric-based nebula, as vol-lights are to bright in the required mass, real clouds kill my rendertimes, so thats the only solution....but i will tweak the colours a bit more....nevertheless this type of nebulas are quite common in space. filaments, no fluffy clouds...like this hubble shot....only with colour

That looks too much like smoke.

[IceyJones]

lol guys.....thats an HUBBLE PICTURE!
as this one is:

[IceyJones]

many thanks to Styxx for the mesh:

[Androgeos Exeunt]

many thanks to Styxx for the mesh:

AHH! A SHIVAN IN MY ROOM!

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(turns around and runs into a wall)

[IceyJones]

coward 

in order to safe your little life, i turn around, catch an fire extinguisher and trow it towards this dump something....

[Androgeos Exeunt]

coward 

in order to safe your little life, i turn around, catch an fire extinguisher and trow it towards this dump something....

Ooh, that just looks weird. I like the original (and what I meant was that the Shivan render was very nice).

I'd like to remind you that we would've been killed a long time ago if it was real.

[IceyJones]

  err....that was a joke