[HotSnoJ]

Plan:

• Engine Glows!
• Bump maps!
• spec/shinny maps
• Something I can't think of!

And all if this is for the up coming Blender Project site!


[EDIT]Anyone know were I can find bump maps for the Orion? I'll make my own if I must.

[Note to self]Use less motion blur nest time. :\

[Taristin]

Less motion blur, but that's my preference...

But the idea is cool. Like my crimion launch...

[StratComm]

Well the idea is really cool, but I would suggest a few things.
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• Reduce the motion blur, or reverse it so that you are focused on the fighters.  They are your subject, so they should be somewhat sharper, if not crisp.
• Change the angle.  You're looking right in to the fighterbay on that Orion, a feature that was never modeled out to be as good as it could have been.  As a render, you should change the angle of the shot to hide that feature, change the texture back there to something that looks like it could launch fighters, or model out a basic flight deck, similar to what you saw in the Bastion main hall in FS1.
• Your Orion is backwards.  Mirror it along its center line (or just horozontally flip the image when you are done).  Common conversion error, though I couldn't begin to tell you what causes it.

And you may try a less cartoony starfield, where the stars are within a few pixels.  That may look ok on a 640x480, but you blow that pic up and you've got major issues with the stars.

[HotSnoJ]

StratComm you just gave me some uber cool ideas!

[DragonClaw]

/me remembers his _really_ old render...

Shows what good bump mapping, surface properties, and lighting can do I had forgotten to flip the orion around though.

http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/art/big/gallery12/takeoff.jpg

[HotSnoJ]

Minor update

Need:
Shivan or vasudan fighers.
Bump and spec maps.

Fixed:
Orion, it's now the right way.

[Taristin]

What's the orange thingies?

Oh, and personalize the ship. Make a nameplate.

[HotSnoJ]

They are fires from laser shots.

And you will know what the ship is once I finish this WIP.

[Taristin]

Wouldn't happen to say Galatea, would it?

[HotSnoJ]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Wouldn't happen to say Galatea, would it?

uhhhhh, maybe

[kasperl]

change the angle of the apollos a bit, this way it looks like there bumping into the deck. also, i remember the fighters being bigger, or the bay being smaller.

and i liked it better angeld at the bay and without the laser thingys, if at all possible, make a real fighterbay.

[Liberator]

I know it's a technical limitation with the game itself, but the Orion can only launch 2 fighters at a go.

[Baron MacDoblin]

Aw, I thought this was an Apollo-13 style launch picture :\

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Liberator
I know it's a technical limitation with the game itself, but the Orion can only launch 2 fighters at a go.

It can launch 4 at a time, but only in rows of 2, not 4 wide... So two rows of 2 fighters come out in a square...



I'd really like to see a modeled fighterbay... That would look incredible...

[Ashrak]

too simple

[Setekh]

She looks nice. Just a note, those laser shots seem awfully regular. You may want to randomise them a little.

[HotSnoJ]

Well I sorta gave up on this for now. :\ So flame me for my short attention span.


Plus I'm busy with TBP, researching into Blender features that I can exploit for FS modding.

[Gloriano]

nice