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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Carl on May 24, 2004, 10:13:28 pm

Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Carl on May 24, 2004, 10:13:28 pm
And they're 100% CG. No photos used. They were all made with particles in 3DS Max.

(http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Carltheshivan/nebula01.jpg)
(http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Carltheshivan/nebula02.jpg)
(http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Carltheshivan/nebula03.jpg)
(http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Carltheshivan/nebula04.jpg)
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: kasperl on May 25, 2004, 03:37:45 am
Those look pretty nice, but a bit blurry compared to LS's pretty crisp stuff.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: ARothers on May 25, 2004, 03:51:52 am
It is a bit blurry and well...not as good as Lightspeeds but not bad and looks more like a nebula than Volition's original.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Fineus on May 25, 2004, 04:31:34 am
At this stage it should be pointed out that Lightspeed uses photos taken from real life scopes / satellites / etc. to create his nebula files. It's hard to generate photo-realistic work like that without any previous template such as the original nebula to work from.

With that in mind Carl, very good start indeed! If you could add more detail to them then perhap it might help. Definitely a good bit of work.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Setekh on May 25, 2004, 06:10:12 am
Fantastic for totally CG work. I think it needs a an overlay of more cloudlike textures in Photoshop, that would be nice. :)
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Lightspeed on May 25, 2004, 10:11:02 am
What I think is that you should do a whole load of them which we can then put in instead of the volition originals. Mine use a whole different system of combining them so using those is not applicable. Yours however, both look like a great improvement, and look like a suitable replacement to the retail ones.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Fineus on May 25, 2004, 10:32:13 am
On that note, is it possible to have them appear in the same shape as the originals? I'm guessing it is since it's particles...
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: KARMA on May 25, 2004, 12:48:13 pm
I think you can get better results drawing by hand in photoshop, but admittedly it's much longer. Those doesn't look bad, but are a bit blurry, as the others said
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Kazan on May 25, 2004, 01:26:17 pm
they suck, and im not just saying that because your an asshole
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Fineus on May 25, 2004, 01:32:20 pm
Kazan, shut the hell up or be banned - your choice. I'll be monitoring your future posts to see if you get to give me a source of amusement in banning you - or if make the sensible choice and deny me that pleasure.

That is all.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Rictor on May 25, 2004, 01:48:41 pm
See, I'm a big fan of the "unlocalized" (well, you think of a better word) style nebulas, like Lightspeed's. These look much closer to the V originals, and they are an improvement to be sure. But LS is right, these would be a more suitable to replace the one in vanilla FS2. What I would like, and this may just be me, is a larger area of nebula "stuff", but not necesarilly as vibrant as these. So, imagine putting a coloured, though barely visible layer behind this one, and these would serve as the "hgihlights". I don't know how much sense that made :D:D
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Kazan on May 25, 2004, 02:05:56 pm
*Sighs*

I'm tired of this

*points to his signature*
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Fineus on May 25, 2004, 02:09:05 pm
Keep the thread on topic please, we're covering your problems via personal messanging.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Lightspeed on May 25, 2004, 04:32:21 pm
Hmm hmm... theres too much testosterone in the atmosphere :rolleyes:

Seriosuly, let out your aggressions at the AI - that's the way I do it, and it works.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Gloriano on May 25, 2004, 05:02:12 pm
Good start Carl looking good :) :yes:
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Post by: Sheepy on May 25, 2004, 05:05:34 pm
stupid red x's, will check again later
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: ionia23 on May 25, 2004, 05:17:40 pm
Stupid question:  Has anyone had any success with adding motion to nebulas?  Spinning black holes, pulsars, blah?
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Ulala on May 25, 2004, 05:25:25 pm
:yes: Good work Carl. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Carl on May 25, 2004, 06:18:16 pm
getting them to both match V's nebulas and have more detail than V's is gonna be hard. only so many shapes will actually look good when done with particles. I can always see how it turns out.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Lightspeed on May 25, 2004, 06:42:59 pm
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Originally posted by ionia23
Stupid question:  Has anyone had any success with adding motion to nebulas?  Spinning black holes, pulsars, blah?


Well, most things will be too slow to notice anyway, and other stuff is kinda limited as ANIs are stuck to 8-bit for now.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Woolie Wool on May 27, 2004, 04:19:31 pm
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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Kazan, shut the hell up or be banned - your choice. I'll be monitoring your future posts to see if you get to give me a source of amusement in banning you - or if make the sensible choice and deny me that pleasure.

That is all.


Has he always been acting this way? I've noticed it ever since the circumcision flamewar thread.

*notices Kazan's "Don Quixote" title*
:lol:
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Fineus on May 27, 2004, 05:54:07 pm
Please, just leave it alone. Things have died down a bit now and I'm hoping the matter can be laid to rest. Hard to do that if people bring it up over and over :) Keep on topic.
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Kazan on May 27, 2004, 06:38:47 pm
*FLAME* *FLAME* *FLAME*

j/k
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Ulala on May 27, 2004, 11:40:42 pm
So um... think we'll see some more nebulas?
Title: More Nebulas!
Post by: Rictor on May 28, 2004, 12:15:55 am
Woolie, what you are looking for is the [l][ L ][/l] tags, not the [l][ s ]  tags[/l]

[ l ]   [ /l ]