[Woolie Wool]

One of the preview screenshots from Lightspeed's nebula packs:

[Turambar]

SJ Rupert?  LOL

[Fineus]

Take it again with lighting appropriate for the background, that's all it's missing... aside from weapon effects etc.. (less important).

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Turambar
SJ Rupert?  LOL

The other Sathanas in his screenies was named SJ Vroomfondel.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Take it again with lighting appropriate for the background, that's all it's missing... aside from weapon effects etc.. (less important).

I like the bright ambient lighting. It brings out the ship and the ooh-aah specularity. You're thinking from a realism point of view; I'm looking at it from an artistic point of view.

[Fineus]

From an artistic point of view, I still think "oh, everything around it is blue and brown/orange. Why is it white?"

But nevermind that I do think the shot could be recreated with some other features of the code included though... maybe a high poly Fenris engaging it, a dogfight going on... etc...

[Turambar]

how long would a high poly Fenris last against a Sathanas?
you wouldn't even have time to catch a screenshot of it getting obliterated!

[Flipside]

If you put it coming in from the rear quarters a Fenris would last long enough

[Rictor]

Put Lightspeed's red nebula in the background, its more visually pleasing and consistent.

[Fineus]

Also, the Fenris could be made invulnerable - for the sake of a screenshot who cares if it should be vaporised before it gets close The point was to show off the high-poly capabilities of the engine.

[Turambar]

then get a hecate and a hatshetsput in the background with say, a sathanas (using my beam origins) and closer up put a high-poly fenris dishing it out to a cain or something, then have fighters in the front (my fighter trails) shooting at stuff, oh, and some high-poly asteroids too!

[mikhael]

The only problem there is the ass ugly ambient lighting. Looks good otherwise. Right now it looks like a plastic model hanging in front of a photo of a nebula, because the lighting is wrong. If the lighting were corrected, it'd look like it was THERE and that would definately make the thing more menacing and fearsome, thus conveying the sense of the shivan threat.

In short, the lighting isn't just "not real", its "not artistic" in a very bad way.

[aldo_14]

Dark = evil
Sathanas = evil

=>
Sathanas:=dark

IMO

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Flipside
If you put it coming in from the rear quarters a Fenris would last long enough

WRONG. There's an LRed back there.

[Deepblue]

No. One of these should be the splash screen.

[jdjtcagle]

How about this??

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
From an artistic point of view, I still think "oh, everything around it is blue and brown/orange. Why is it white?"

But nevermind that I do think the shot could be recreated with some other features of the code included though... maybe a high poly Fenris engaging it, a dogfight going on... etc...

Um, a nebula puts out very, very little light. A sun would amount for 99.9% of the light in such a scene. Even the brightest nebulae in the sky are around magnitude 4 (it's almost impossible to pick out objects dimmer than magnitude 6 without a telescope), but the sun is magnitude -28.6 (lower=brighter).

[Taristin]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle

How about this??

I second this one. The Sathanas in the first one just looks too crappy. It's really showing it's lower poly-ness, especially arount the head.

And did everyone forget how to use the lvlshot tags? Honestly.

[jdjtcagle]

What are they??
This is the first I've heard of them

EDIT: searched and found out:D

[adwight]

Nah, that Sath looks good, it definately reminds me of the one in the cutscene, totally awesome.