[Shrike]

A Cyclone missile cruiser and an Orion attack frigate escort a Munin fleet scout through the middle of a nebular cloud.  In the lead the Cyclone has its lidar scanning system active, the laser beams visible in the nebula's gas and dust.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

That's very impressive!:yes:

Reminds me of the Borg.

[kasperl]

very nice!

[lobsterclaw]

Cool lasers!:yes:

[karajorma]

Very cool.

[Thorn]

mmmm... fractal.....
Good stuff... sun seems a bit bright though...

[Turnsky]

even though, they're all the same ship(the farthest two),

at first glance the most distant kinda reminded me of the 'pillar of autumn'

nice one shrike..

renders have been few and far between ever since steak went on hiatus..

hey jfk? holidays coming soon in NSW isn't it? if so, perhaps you could persuade him to at least have a look around..

[pyro-manic]

Nice.

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Turnsky
hey jfk? holidays coming soon in NSW isn't it? if so, perhaps you could persuade him to at least have a look around..

Soon as in 3 weeks soon. (Week 8 begins this coming Monday; Week 10 is our last week.) I'm sure he'll come of his own accord anyway, but posting would be a different matter - the kind of person he is, whenever he gets slightly involved with something, he commits all his free time to it. Neither of us can really afford to do that this year, unfortunately.

Render's nice, Shrike. I guess you design your ships to be realistic (unlike the FreeSpace designers), huh?

[Turnsky]

ask him what he thinks of my stuff when you get the chance..:thepimp:

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]The ships look quite deadly for some reason, the 'whiskers' are clever though, in design as well as in realisation.
[/color]

[Carl]

Good idea with those lasers, Shrike. In Real life, however, even nebulas (planetary or not) wouldn't make lasers visible. The gas in them is many times thinner than the thinnest vaccum we can create in a lab.

[Turnsky]

depends really, what the neb is made of, particle debris(i.e ICE) may make lasers visible...

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Carl
Good idea with those lasers, Shrike. In Real life, however, even nebulas (planetary or not) wouldn't make lasers visible. The gas in them is many times thinner than the thinnest vaccum we can create in a lab.

Yeah. I agree but renders are always done in a strange version of real life where you get lens flare without a camera, asteroid fields of unrealistic density and nebulae so thick you can't see your hand in front of your face

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by karajorma
renders are always done in a strange version of real life where you get lens flare without a camera

Well, hey, maybe they didn't render them but actually flew out to Delta Serpentis and took a few happy snaps with their Sony Cyber-shot cameras. Or not.

[Turnsky]

Detonation of the capella sun: a kodak moment:p

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Turnsky


Detonation of the capella sun: a kodak moment:p

Share Moments. Share hideous death. Hmmm maybe they could use that for their next ad camapign

Anyway so as to not annoy Shrike I'll say that it's a nice render again

[Nico]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]The ships look quite deadly for some reason, the 'whiskers' are clever though, in design as well as in realisation.
[/color]

yes, the idea is nice, but it's really dependant on the speed of the ship and the range of the laser... better not go too fast for instance, if the lasers don't go too far.

[Sandwich]

*wishes he could see the picture*

[Shrike]

Meh, was cleaning out my folder and thought it was something else and deleted it.  It's up again.