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Title: On Approach.
Post by: Darkshear on April 16, 2001, 06:18:00 am
  (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/pics/RYg2.jpg)  

Rodger Young on approach...

Next glory shot will be the Young and sister ships in battle with bug plasma and such...maybe some dropships, if I get around to making them   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: On Approach.
Post by: NeoHunter on April 16, 2001, 06:22:00 am
What about fighters? I thought they had fighters too.

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Title: On Approach.
Post by: Nico on April 16, 2001, 07:01:00 am
engine glows on the roger young are brighter I think, azur like, and... in fact I'm wrong lol, there's no glow, just the blue lines on the exhaust I think. I found this effect to be easily found by making a plane in the engine, and applying a blue colour map with trans-fallof centered inside, and full self-illumination( 3ds3 terms sorry, I'm still searching how to self-illuminate a map in 3ds max2.5  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif) )

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Title: On Approach.
Post by: Fineus on April 16, 2001, 07:13:00 am
 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/eek.gif)

Its so pretty!

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Title: On Approach.
Post by: Setekh on April 16, 2001, 07:17:00 am
That looks amazing...  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/eek.gif)
Title: On Approach.
Post by: Darkshear on April 16, 2001, 07:23:00 am
Venom, yeah I know...but I really engine glows :P
And I was going for a very 'glowy' type of shot here anyway...:P

I can't help it...large amounts of bright energy have to glow...cause ti looks better that way...and I get to take a little artistic liscence  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif) Besides, if they had hired me to do th eeffect in ST, they would have had engine glows :P
Title: On Approach.
Post by: Nico on April 16, 2001, 07:49:00 am
Lol you're right  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
artistic liscence? Yeah, next year I'm definitively going to work on this (already taken in an art school  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif) )(damn, I'm always wondering if what I'm saying in english makes sense lol).
For more glowing effects, Yoda would say:
"Plasma bug you will put, big ships explosions there will be !"
Rasczak would say ... hem, I better not tell what he would say, or the topic would be owned :b

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Title: On Approach.
Post by: Shrike on April 16, 2001, 06:05:00 pm
Y'know those engines?  The top-left engine on the biggest set we see looks the best....it has the panel bright glow and the exhaust dark glow.  I know that's it's an artifact of complex lighting, but IMO that should be the standard look.