[USS Alexander]

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 http://www.geocities.com/thebeastproject/Deimosrender.jpg

Please don't laugh, i just got lightwave and this is the first i ever made, so any suggestions on how to improve it are welcome.

[This message has been edited by Thunder (edited 12-09-2001).]

[Fineus]

Ok, first of all: JPEG Compression! that thing is 283Kb, I ran it through a compression program and got it down to 38kb with no quality loss. Something to bear in mind for the future  

Now onto the render. It looks really good for a first attempt. You've managed to get the engines and the beam looking very convincing, although obviously a little work needs to be done.

Good use of background, the planet looks neat (although the bright atmosphere edge looks a little dodgy). Nice clear nebula as well.

You've even gone to the trouble of changing the alignments on the guns (something I can't seem to manage at the moment) attention to detail is good - nice one.

All in all - an excellent first render, good job  

[Nico]

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[Sandwich]

I like it, too, except for 2 things (one of which is nit-picking):

1) The Deimos looks like there was a noise filter involved in there somewhere - When you bumpmap, you must have some anti-aliasing as well.

2) I thinnk that from the camera angle, there should be a bit of the beam's warm-up glow in view. Also, the edges of the beam are a very slight bit too hard for my tastes.(That was the nit-picking..  )

Good job, all in all.  

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[Nico]

my two only complaints: the inside of the engine should be bump-free, and the planet is kindda out of the place.
Otherwise you did a perfect engine glow, not too much, not too less (?).
And the Deimos really looks real  

[CODEDOG ND]

Sorry had to deface and try something with it.  Sucks having truespace on a computer 30 miles away and the other have the paint proggie on it.  So I took the image and erased your front beam and charged up the back one instead.  The back beam would look better IMO and that camera angle.
 http://www.angelfire.com/co4/clan-night-hawk/pictures.html

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