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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ace on March 09, 2001, 03:15:00 pm

Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Ace on March 09, 2001, 03:15:00 pm: Below is a low resolution .gif of a work which contains a flight of Dark's SF Gorgon near a Shivan cruiser formation.

(http://www.adamantpacified.org/grafix/gorgoncain.gif)

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Darkage on March 09, 2001, 03:45:00 pm: sweeeeeeeeeeeet!! mate (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)verry nice job (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Setekh on March 09, 2001, 05:23:00 pm: Beautiful job. I particularly like the planets in the background, though the Gorgon in the background flying towards us (lower left) is glowing a little too much compared to the rest of them. Reduce the glow radius and you'll be fine (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) Care to make us a high-res jpg? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Griffon UK on March 09, 2001, 05:30:00 pm: i *REALLY* like the bump-map type effect... gives it a real nice effect of depth...

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Setekh on March 09, 2001, 05:35:00 pm: I was slightly interested by the moon in the middle-ground. There's that gas-giant in the background, but that moon has so much detail I can barely tell where it belongs. Still nice though (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Fineus on March 10, 2001, 01:40:00 am: *Faints*
Wow dude - you've definitely got some skillz there! My only complaint is the resolution (1024x768 so it can be my background please) and that everything seems a bit to bunched together, but apart from that it looks awesome!

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Ace on March 10, 2001, 02:22:00 am: The planets were originally Dark made, with some tweaks by yours truly.

No bump-mapping or rendering at all, it's all photoshop and FS view. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)

As for some of the glows looking uneven, that is due to the .gif compression.

I do have a 1024x768 original on my hard drive in .bmp format. I'll use a different .jpeg compression and get a copy of the image that is an acceptable size and without heavy color bleeding when I have the spare time.

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Fineus on March 10, 2001, 03:22:00 am: Your kidding right - there must be bump-mapping there... look at the Cain nearest the picture... Unless theres some feature of Photoshop that I dont know about?

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: NeoHunter on March 10, 2001, 04:30:00 am: Nice picture!! (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif) Especially the Shivan Cain-class cruisers. I think there's definitely bump mapping there.

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Ace on March 10, 2001, 01:26:00 pm: All I did was some light tweaking as well as sharpening the image. No bump maps, period.

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Jabu on March 10, 2001, 02:35:00 pm: Sharpening would probably cause the effect.
Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Setekh on March 10, 2001, 05:33:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Griffon UK:
i *REALLY* like the bump-map type effect...

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Originally posted by Thunder:
there must be bump-mapping there...

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Originally posted by NeoHunter:
there's definitely bump mapping there.

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Originally posted by Ace:
No bump maps, period.

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Title: FreeSpace Art
Post by: Fineus on March 11, 2001, 03:25:00 am: *Grumbles* looks like bump-mapping to me (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)

Either way, I love it - great job, more please! (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)

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