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Offline Carl

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Offline Taristin

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Beautiful lasers... now howsabout some of thm hitting that WAC?  
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Offline Carl

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how does the bump mapping look? it's my first FS bump mapping render, although i have been using it for over a year.
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Pretty damn good. Those Arrays™ even looked textured in the reflections.
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Offline Setekh

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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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Offline phreak

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

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

 

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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  

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!  


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Offline Carl

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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...
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