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Offline Setekh

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on: November 14, 2003, 05:51:57 pm
I know I've got a lot of comments on this already (cheers!), but since I announced this render in the depths of my exam blog, I imagine it hasn't been seen by a few people here and there. Thus:



It's just a warm-up. Expect more. :nod:
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Offline Razor

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Reply #1 on: November 14, 2003, 06:21:45 pm
I saw it on the other thread and yes it's a good pic. Keep it up. :)
Oh and make them more high res. ;)
 

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Reply #2 on: November 14, 2003, 06:24:20 pm
*watches as the AWACs enters oblivion*

I should try to do a good render some day. Instead of these cheapies I keep pumping out.
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #3 on: November 14, 2003, 06:56:06 pm
Thanks, Razor. :) I dunno, I always loved little snippets - my focus is always better with those - but don't worry, I fully plan to splash out on some big ones in good time. Array 300 is approaching, for instance. ;)

Actually, Raa, in that render I'm not meant to be entering oblivion - I'm returning from it. That red nebula back there is meant to represent the huge place which HLP has become... red? Get it? ;) When I painted that nebula, it originally looked like this, but I changed it once I thought of the symbolism and stuff. :)
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #4 on: November 14, 2003, 07:05:34 pm
You made that in Photoshop?  Another thing I need to learn to do...
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #5 on: November 14, 2003, 07:44:10 pm
I don't have Photoshop, but with the techniques I use I imagine I could adapt it. Greg Martin has an excellent tutorial on painting starscapes, but by the looks of it he published it a year and a few months after I started doing mine this way. :)

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #6 on: November 14, 2003, 08:40:45 pm
Have it bookmarked already. But I always make them funny looking.

I generally use a generic starscape background, and use TS to render nebulas over it.
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Offline Ashrak

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Reply #7 on: November 15, 2003, 02:53:06 am
hand painted nebs look better.... i just dont have the time to put all that effort into it .... me deigning my webbie etc :)
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Offline Fineus

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Reply #8 on: November 15, 2003, 05:17:23 am
Agreed, comparing the difference between the hand painted and most of what Glitteratio(sp) can pump out - well the difference is clear.

Oh, and I have this message from Setekhs conscience for him...
Psst, Setekh, Make it WinX compatable...
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #9 on: November 15, 2003, 06:25:52 am
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Oh, and I have this message from Setekhs conscience for him...
Psst, Setekh, Make it WinX compatable...
;)


Hey, you of all people know I've been trying and am trying to get the blasted thing on a Windows box. :)
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #10 on: November 15, 2003, 03:18:30 pm
Yes, but would you release it? That is the question...
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Offline Kamikaze

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Reply #11 on: November 15, 2003, 03:51:05 pm
In the meantime can you release it to us *nix hackers? ;7 :p


By the way: You could try making it open source. Because blender is so lacking the oss community would welcome a good renderer. Development would go nice and fast too.
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #12 on: November 15, 2003, 05:18:35 pm
I am literally hundreds of steps ahead of you. The problem is not releasing it. The problem is getting it to work. I've been trying for years to get it into Windows - no go. :blah:
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #13 on: November 15, 2003, 05:33:55 pm
Can't use system-neutral code? Like Kazan is?
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Offline Stryke 9

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Reply #14 on: November 15, 2003, 06:28:55 pm
If you can't get it to work on a Windows machine, you're quite obviously not cursing hard enough. Microsoft products respond solely to obscenity-and-kicking- based input.
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Reply #15 on: November 15, 2003, 07:21:03 pm
you also need to sacrifice goats to satan
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Reply #16 on: November 16, 2003, 05:27:25 am
Aww, didn't mean to start all this :)

Sorry Setekh, you know how much I want the blasted thing. But then I also remember from days old the reasons why it was so damn hard to convince it to port! It does sound like a somewhat tricky job.
 

Offline Setekh

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Reply #17 on: November 16, 2003, 05:41:43 am
I'll kick you next time, Kal. ;)

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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Can't use system-neutral code? Like Kazan is?


Too late for that, sorry. I could build the thing from the ground up, but it'd take me... at least about a year if I was undergoing the same process, but probably a lot longer, since my brother's field of expertise is Unix and its derivatives. Seriously, Raa, I've already gone through all these alternatives.
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Offline kasperl

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Reply #18 on: November 16, 2003, 06:48:39 am
you know, Shi has a point, if it is open source, there would be an army of coders ready to help port it, and some of them would have some usefull experience....
just another newbie without any modding, FREDding or real programming experience

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Offline Gloriano

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Reply #19 on: November 16, 2003, 07:17:47 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
I don't have Photoshop, but with the techniques I use I imagine I could adapt it. Greg Martin has an excellent tutorial on painting starscapes, but by the looks of it he published it a year and a few months after I started doing mine this way. :)

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html


i must check that some time:)

but beatyful work Steak:yes:
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