[Scooby_Doo]

How are you doing the HDR on the last rendered pic?

[Colonol Dekker]

That last one made me actually drool a little. 

[Vengence]

LOL, the last pic is NOT HDR. In fact its NOT even INGAME!!!  Its a "render"

Pic 1: "Classified Level OMEGA. Name will NOT be disclosed"
Pic 2: Meh, a cel shade test
Pic 3: High poly Bolt Adv Fighter with a Lens Glow as a bloom effect.

[Scooby_Doo]

I know its a rendering I was just wonder how you did that.

[Vengence]

I set the material ID to 1 and went into video post and activated Lens Glow and set it to be applied to materials with ID 1. I set the color to white gradient and set the effect to be applied to ONLY very bright surfaces. Remember, not HDR. Its post processing. Though this looks great in pics, in movies it looks unusual because it isn't smooth. Its like thousands of glowing circles placed in the right places constantly blinking. But I used 3ds so I have no idea how to do this in other programs besides Maya. Btw, Maya does glows simpler but more limited.

[Colonol Dekker]

Cinema 4D is quite good at glowy stuff i reckon.............

[Vengence]

Its a tad bad thing that I don't know it and I think I'll stick to 3d Studios super easy camera and geometry contols. Really, the only thing I don't like about Maya is a somewhat harder UI and the fact that all geometry created is a default model placed in the center of the scene while in 3ds I can control geometry placement and shape easier.

[Colonol Dekker]

Hard Interface = Lightwave every flippin' time, It makes me ill. Just thining about it........

[Vengence]

... ... ... I never knew such an emoticon existed .

[Scooby_Doo]

LOL Dekker does the same I do

[Harbinger of DOOM]

Right-click, view image.
Its from another forum.

[Scooby_Doo]

Suuuuush.... Your giving away all our secrets 

[Colonol Dekker]

*chuckle* Only Lightwave brings out the chunder, Other progs i'm patient with.....

[NGTM-1R]

I fear I must dissent and state those ships look like ABSOLUTE UNMITIGATED OVERSMOOTHED CRAP ingame.

[Flipside]

 

Hard Interface = Lightwave every flippin' time, It makes me ill. Just thining about it........

Odd, I get on really well with Lightwave, but never liked 3DS Max. I always liked the way it kept the modelling program and the rendering program seperate, it wasn't a Jack-of-all trades, but the UV Mapping tools point-edit tools I found incredibly intuitive

[Scooby_Doo]

I fear I've been using Max so long that lightwave might be too odd for me to learn lol

[Colonol Dekker]

The seperate renderer is a good idea, but you can get dedicated rendering solutions that take mostfile formats anyway.

[Vengence]

I fear I must dissent and state those ships look like ABSOLUTE UNMITIGATED OVERSMOOTHED CRAP ingame.

Uh, which ships? The dready is NOT smoothed at all. I used 8 sided cylinders and worked from there to make the horns and for the spheres I just used simple Geospheres with some extrusions. The Lightning Destroyer has no smoothing either. I used a spline and turned into a polygon then beveled it . The Blizzard2 used spline based cage modeling with no topologing so its not smoothed either, the Thunder fighter used the same method and again no topologing. The SerDek was made in maya by my friend next door so its probably just polygons too. The Meteor used a spline cage style with little topology to begin with. The Tornado cruiser used a spline cage too and has no topology.

Or perhaps it is the skins. I didn't make custom textures, I just blended some textures with noise, smoke, marble, ect maps and rendered to texture. Seeing as how I got the ram and power to handel it I don't really care how inefficient the models are considering they are practically Alpha stage models and are not suited for release yet. The Dready may look smooth, but it actually fits in pretty well ingame.

If your talking about my Bolt Adv Fighter, that is a high polygon model suited for rendered movies and scenes, not for gameplay. If it was in the game, it'd kill my pc. Thats what happens when you have a 20,000 polygon model in your sights.

And so that you know, my models are part of a unique, custom, and original universe I created so my ship will NOT fit in with FS ships at all.