[LtNarol]

Another Exposition render, enjoy.

[glow=tan]
Models by mikhael
Maps by Volition
Planet by Riven
Rendered in trueSpace 5.1[/glow]

[HotSnoJ]

OOOOOOOO AAAAAHHHHHHH!

I cannot wait until this campaign is done.

[Unknown Target]

Purdy. Composition is a little wooden, tho.

[Taristin]

Hm... Apply a metal reflectance to the textures, and real lighting from the blasts and you'd have a winner.

[LtNarol]

how do you do that metal reflections in TS?

[Taristin]

Right click on the reflectance shader, and select metal. Then just paint-roller-tool it on top of the texture you have selected.

[Bobboau]

don't use metal, it's way too dark, use conductor, or chrome, or ansiotropic

[LtNarol]

ok, sorry for being stupid, but where is this stuff?  I have on the other hand found an editor for the maps themselves that handles specular and shine....

[LtNarol]

sorta with reflections...

[Setekh]

Starfield & planet are ideal. Ships themselves are nice, but... bored.

[aldo_14]

Needs explosions.  big ones.  And shiny beams.  IMO.

[beatspete]

More... 'exciting' (?) lights and shadows? Try to get a bit more contrast between shaddow and light, there seems to be a lot of ambient light about. If you can, match the lighting direction to corespond with the dark sides of planets, and the location of suns on the background (where applicable ofcourse).


...IMHO.

[Ashrak]

nice pulse thingies

[LtNarol]

someone know a good tutorial for explosions by chance? preferably either for TS or PSP?

Oh, and another edit; for those wondering about beams, these ships are from Exposition, which is set well before FS2

EDIT: now with explosions, liked it better before though, never been too satisfied with my craptasitic explosion composites

[Taristin]

I like the one on the bottom...

[LtNarol]

the render or the ship?

EDIT: Will TS render reflective surfaces properly if the graphics card is a TNT2?  I'm starting to have doubts, since I think I found what I was looking for and I've had similar problems with highlights in FS_open.

[Setekh]

Grab an explosion from the VPs and pull out a single frame. Copy it straight onto your image, then fiddle around with PSP's layer blending options... look for something like screen, addition, or inverse of multiply.

[StratComm]

Simple suggestion: turn one of the ships around.  Right now it looks like they are in a race to something behind the camera and just happen to be shooting at each other.

[LtNarol]

While I can see quite a bit to be gained from that, you'd lose the almost identical perspective on both ships, which was sorta the point...meh

[Terawatt_99]

there should be more laser fire coming from each ship otherwise, looks really cool