[mikhael]

Narol, what video card you have is absolutely meaningless when it comes to a render. Renders are all about the CPU and the math coprocessor. Your video card just displays the image once the render is done.

Listen to Steak on the composition hints.

Oh and Steak, please, please, please don't tell me you don't like the ships themselves. I worked HARD on that hull!

[Setekh]

*agrees with Mik on all counts* Having a crummy graphics card will not be a detriment to your render quality at all - I have relied on that fact for every single one of my renders.

Originally posted by mikhael
Oh and Steak, please, please, please don't tell me you don't like the ships themselves. I worked HARD on that hull!

I hardly even needed to say I love these models. Hopefully, I'll be able to steal those meshes when I get SPIRE up and running again - just can't wait to play around with it, I already have some ideas for them in my head.

[mikhael]

ROCK. ON.

I'll definately supply them to you. Heck, maybe I'll hook you up with slightly higher poly versions.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by mikhael
ROCK. ON.

I'll definately supply them to you. Heck, maybe I'll hook you up with slightly higher poly versions.

Now we're talking. That said, I'm trying to avoid good stuff for rendering right now - getting SPIRE out for the first time in a year would be a disaster for my exams. November 13, that'll be the day.

[Gloriano]

i like those:)

[Taristin]

Also, what the AWACs said about the explosion you can do in TS too.  Take a Plane, and texture it with the explosion map and use the filter tool to make it transparent. You can even take several explosions mapped on planes from different exp0*.ani's and make some pretty convincing explosions.