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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Razor on March 05, 2003, 09:39:19 am

Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 05, 2003, 09:39:19 am: I made this render here.

As you can see, there is a little thing missing here. That little thing is or are, explosions. How do you make those? Is there a plugin for Photoshop for those or is there another alternative.

By the way, the mjolnir on the left is hiing a ship on the side, not on the top and the Artemis is dodging that beam there.
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Nico on March 05, 2003, 10:08:11 am: RTFT!!!!!
aslo: get rid of the turret debris, check that grey square under the orion, and put some shadows. what prog are you using?

as for the explosion, extract a frame from the FS2 anis, and use it on the render, new layer etc.
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Ashrak on March 05, 2003, 10:11:48 am: beams in PS????
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 05, 2003, 10:14:58 am: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
RTFT!!!!!
aslo: get rid of the turret debris, check that grey square under the orion, and put some shadows. what prog are you using?

as for the explosion, extract a frame from the FS2 anis, and use it on the render, new layer etc.

Waoh woah easy there. The program is lightwave by the way.

Yes i know about that layer trick but it doesn't work. Can you give me some details on how to make those? I am not really fammiliar with layers you know. Thanks.

Quote
beams in PS????

Didn't you know about that?
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Warlock on March 05, 2003, 10:17:37 am: You can always try layering them in Photoshop. I'm not familar with Lightwave but I'm sure there's tutorial's online somewhere for doing explosions. Try : www.scifi-meshes.com I know alot of the stuff there is LW.
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Nico on March 05, 2003, 10:51:36 am: Quote
Originally posted by Razor

Waoh woah easy there. The program is lightwave by the way.

Yes i know about that layer trick but it doesn't work. Can you give me some details on how to make those? I am not really fammiliar with layers you know. Thanks.

Didn't you know about that?

mmh? well to be honest when I do explosions I do them directly in max: I map a quad, add glow, opacity map, self illu, put it in the right place, and put a light.

btw: rtft here means "rotate the ****ing turrets" :D
fed up off all those renders with GTVA ships which have the hardon :doubt:
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 06, 2003, 04:57:21 pm: Ok. I have been working a bit on everything and here is what I did so far. Mind you, this is my first attempt at making explosions. Well just tell me what you think of them ok?

(http://www.geocities.com/zaki_no/expl.jpg)

By the way, here is the render that I did yesterday and of course with little improvements. Any opinions suggestions?

(http://www.geocities.com/zaki_no/kg_4.jpg)
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Pera on March 06, 2003, 05:17:59 pm: The explosion itself is nice, but it looks a bit "pasted on" on that render.

Did you make the explosion in photoshop or LW?
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 06, 2003, 05:20:23 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Pera
The explosion itself is nice, but it looks a bit "pasted on" on that render.

Did you make the explosion in photoshop or LW?

Actually it is not pasted on. I used layers.
The explosion was made in lightwave and without particles, hyper voxels or anything like that.
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 07, 2003, 05:36:55 pm: Oh come on is it really that bad? :sigh:
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Knight Templar on March 07, 2003, 05:40:30 pm: Its so bad, I can't see anything but a red x...
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 07, 2003, 07:00:46 pm: Sorry. I had to post it at Geo****ies because fattonys was off line yesterday. Try now :)

My first explosion:
(http://www.fattonys.com/images/upload/expl.jpg)

The improved render:
(http://www.fattonys.com/images/upload/kg_4.jpg)
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Knight Templar on March 07, 2003, 07:44:36 pm: Render : Bettar :yes:

Beams: Bettar! :yes:

Explosion: ghey :no:
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 08, 2003, 02:49:32 am: eh..ok
But which explosions are you talking about?
The one on the seperate canvas or one on the render?
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Riven on March 08, 2003, 06:17:48 am: the orion isnt textured right!
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 08, 2003, 08:51:59 am: Actually it is. :)
I didn't use the ordinary Orion maps. I used glow maps instead, plus did some tweakage.
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Ulundel on March 08, 2003, 08:57:26 am: Turrets are still unrotated.
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Knight Templar on March 08, 2003, 10:23:02 am: The explosion... on the render...with teh beamage..
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 08, 2003, 12:08:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ulundel
Turrets are still unrotated.

Geez what's with the rotating turrets? :mad:
Is that the most important thing in the render?
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Ulundel on March 08, 2003, 12:31:24 pm: Yes, if they're next to the camera.
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Razor on March 08, 2003, 02:45:11 pm: Well they aren't practically next to the camera but how do you rotate them in LW anyway?
Title: Need rendering help
Post by: Ulundel on March 08, 2003, 02:59:24 pm: Dunno. I'm using Max. You might try searching for pivot point options though...