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Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Carl on July 27, 2001, 09:50:00 am

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Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Taristin on July 27, 2001, 10:00:00 am

Beautiful lasers... now howsabout some of thm hitting that WAC?  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)

Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Carl on July 27, 2001, 10:03:00 am

how does the bump mapping look? it's my first FS bump mapping render, although i have been using it for over a year.

Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Taristin on July 27, 2001, 10:13:00 am

Pretty damn good. Those Arrays™ even looked textured in the reflections.

Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Setekh on July 27, 2001, 10:30:00 am

The bump-mapping looks good. As for the subject... well now we all know you have the skills, you actually have to do something with them. I've said it before, but you can add a huge new sense into your renders by giving them a story. A wing of Maras flying off in the distance, an AWACS, and a wing of Hercs flying by, one of them shooting at thin air. Time to put it all together and make something of it.

Oh, and one more thing - JPG compression! Use it! I know you might want to get the highest quality in your pic, but that image there is more than half a meg. You can make it a third that with no visible image quality lost, until about 300% magnification.



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Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: phreak on July 27, 2001, 12:14:00 pm

or just save it as png and make it even smaller with no quality loss.

Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Joey_21 on July 27, 2001, 12:23:00 pm

 

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Originally posted by PhReAk:
or just save it as png and make it even smaller with no quality loss.

Heheh, ummm, saving as a JPG file makes it smaller. I just now tried it.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Stryke 9 on July 27, 2001, 06:45:00 pm

Make more things going boom. You need things going boom.

Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Fineus on July 28, 2001, 01:17:00 am

 

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Originally posted by Stryke 9:
Make more things going boom. You need things going boom.

Congratulations, thats going in the quotes section of SoT for being so damn funny  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)

Great pic dude, I like the bump mapping and the lighting on it, you need to develop backgrounds a bit more if possible, nothing drastic but it adds something to the picture. And Setekhs right, time to start giving these pics some meaning!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)


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Title: Pathetic AWACS
Post by: Carl on July 28, 2001, 06:36:00 am

thanky Thunder. And there was a story but the power went off right as i finished typing it. The GTVA discovered a new jump node and sent an AWACS to do long range scans of the new system it lead to. an escort wing of Hercs were sent with it. when they were half way through scanning, a wing of maras and a wing of manticores (not shown in pic, this is what the Herc is shooting at) jump in. get ready for part 2...