[Fury]

So in short, TBP needs new weapon effects, but we're kind of short in right artists who can do good effects. Lightspeed upgraded TBP's pulse and beam weapon effects. However we need new weapon effects as well. Lightspeed might be too busy to do those effects, so we agreed I ask for help from here and see if someone can help us out.

What we need are weapons effects for Vorlon and Shadow ships. As well as maybe a few other effects. If you don't know B5, you can download some reference from here.

As you can see from TBP 3.0 effects, they are not 100% true to the ones seen in the show. TBP 3.0 looks a lot better in my opinion, something I'd expect to see in today's B5 show/movie.

Questions? Shoot and I'll answer to best of my abilities.

*crosses fingers*

[Fury]

[DaBrain]

Effect, huh?

Just my area.


With enough time I can work on it.

I'm pretty busy right now, but I think I can create some beam and glow effects in this month. Or at least a large part of them.


BTW the shockwave is almost done. It just needs some tweaking.


What's the time limit?

[Fury]

The ships are about finished, so as soon as possible but there's no timelimit either because we can't release them without their own weapon effects, now can we?

[Carl]

I can do it. i'm better than you are at making weapon effects. e-mail (or PM) me what weapon effects you need done. in turn i will accept your logo-tbp.gif under my name

[Fury]

I don't know which one of you two is better with weapon effects. Unless DaBrain wants to give up, how about you try to make a Vorlon beam weapon effect from the reference linked above and we'll decide which one does the rest?

[DaBrain]

I found a trail effect in my WIP folder which looks a bit like the shadow beam.

[Fury]

Looks pretty good.

[Fury]

Just got a PM from Carl showing his vorlon beam effect, how about you DaBrain?

[DaBrain]

Hmm I not really sure how it's supposed to look like.

I know it from the series, but still.

Is this a good start?

[Fury]

Both samples are a little different and both have their good points. I need to lean towards DaBrain's sample because I like the center more. But that's just my personal preference of course.

To make it fair, here's what Carl made.

[DaBrain]

They look nice put together.

But I can't see a bright core in the reference.

[Fury]

While it does not need to be 100% accurate, but in my opinion it looks better without the bright core.

How about you guys work together with weapons effects for TBP? I can make you both staff and request you an access to our private forum. Of course I also expect you won't just disappear beyond the Rim like many others have done in the past.

[DaBrain]

Sure. I'm a big Babylon 5 fan.  

BTW I've ... "tweaked" your shadow glow.

http://www.8ung.at/dabrain/shadowglow.rar

[Fury]

Any shadow effects you might have found from 3.0 core vp, shouldn't have been there. They suck.

[Carl]

mine looks more like the reference imo. DaBrian's center looks far too crinkly.

[Lynx]

Well, I don't have the time to make weapon effects for TBP, but at least for the neutron beam I think it should look like this:



It shouldn't have those random grean particles, since they don't serve a purpose beside to scream "Hey I'm detailed!" More important is good color fading.

EDIT: Thought you were talking about the Minbari neutron beam.

[Fury]

I told you it does not need to look 100% like in the reference pics.
Your two effects combined (without the bright core) is in my opinion the best. Other staff member's opinion might differ though.

So, I take you have nothing against working with DaBrain and possibly maybe with Lightspeed?

[Lynx]

Nope, as said, I have too much work myself, I just did that quick graphic because I don't like those random blobs everywhere in the TBP weapon effects.
And I'm too stubborn to let other people interfere in my work.

[Fury]

I was talking to Carl...
We have no need for Minbari beam effects, Lightspeed remade them for 3.0 already.