[Liberator]

It's blue.  Actually it's very blue.

[Setekh]

Fantastic mood. The only thing is that the blurring of the Orion makes it look like you're trying to recreate a depth of field an effect (which is great if you are), but this is made confusing because the planets in the distance as well as the Zeus in the foreground are in crisply focused. Anyway, that's nitpicking. I love this.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Setekh
Fantastic mood. The only thing is that the blurring of the Orion makes it look like you're trying to recreate a depth of field an effect (which is great if you are), but this is made confusing because the planets in the distance as well as the Zeus in the foreground are in crisply focused. Anyway, that's nitpicking. I love this.

the planets are much larger than the orion, and the zeus is the focus..

note, a couple of embossing overlay layers produce a neat bumpmapping effect.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Turnsky
the planets are much larger than the orion, and the zeus is the focus..

What's your point about the planets being bigger? If they are further away, they should be more out of focus, no matter how big they are.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Setekh


What's your point about the planets being bigger? If they are further away, they should be more out of focus, no matter how big they are.

point;)

but the blurring also rids me of the jaggies that were present

[Setekh]

Yes, Modelview isn't perfect.

It's excellent though, well composed above all. What inspired you to start doing some FS stuff? Just playing around?

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Setekh
Yes, Modelview isn't perfect.

It's excellent though, well composed above all. What inspired you to start doing some FS stuff? Just playing around?

yeah, just messing around, i needed to something involving freespace, and i needed it for AOTD..

is there any way to get truespace 3.2 to antialias, and output into a transparent background? (or is there any free proggies that do the same trick?)

[Setekh]

TS is not my cup of tea, so I'd suggest a work around. Render at high resolution, then edit out the required areas in Photoshop. Should be possible straight from TS, but good luck if you go down that path.

[Turnsky]

found out that Truespace outputs to a transparent TGA file, so with that, and an enterprise b model i found on my hard-drive (forgot who made it, so kudos to whomever)


and kudos to lightspeed for letting me use his planets

[Fineus]

Ship lighting would be good - but it's a nice start!

[Rictor]

I actually really like the ship lighting. It looks very...approproate. Not overdone like people usually tend to, its realistic.

[mikhael]

The ships lights are good. The ambient light isn't. Space isn't bright.

[Turnsky]

tweaked the lighting, have another look-see..

Edit: just a side-note, i had to texture and UV map the damn thing myself..

[Setekh]

Very nice. As a final touch, I'd add a colorise layer above the planets to get it to match the yellow tinge of the nebula and the lighting on the mesh. It looks fantastic, btw.