[wEvil]

That ship is still a *fairly* early WIP..

im going to add some butressed edges all along it, specially around the hangar holes.

I found the V concept pics to make them look a little to..err.."terran"..so im trying for a compromise between them both.  Have to see what it looks like when its' finished.

On the downside--i just got my bank statement through.

£935 overdrawn.  Yipee..i love the way this govornment handles student loans.

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Remember, when someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and ***** slap them upside the head.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by RKIF-DragonClaw:
In Lightwave there is an option to save all frames of an animation as #.extension

So you could make an animation and save it as 0001.pcx, 0002.pcx.. etc so it's already set for conversion to .ani

 

-Max too: rather than save as avi, you choose bmp, pcx, or wahtever you want and hop, you'll have each frame saved as a pic  

-for me, a mix between the two are the vasudans, no?

[wEvil]

nope, the vasudans seem more cracked mud/black corrugated piping style texturing.

Shivans= Arcane butressing, weird exposed piping and lots of red glowy things

Terran=Metal Hull Plating, Chipped paint and heavy guns.

I render all my animations out into .TGAs - gets the alpha channel for compositing.

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Remember, when someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and ***** slap them upside the head.

[Nico]

how do you save the alpha channel? I'm obliged to make a screen cap coz Max will save all the colour channels...

[wEvil]

render out to an image format that supports it, then go to the "setup" tab.

.TGA
.TIF
.PNG

all support 32bit colour or more.
they're not very compressable, though.


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Remember, when someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and ***** slap them upside the head.