[Grey Wolf]

This is my first render, so don't laugh:
   
What do you think?

[This message has been edited by Grey Wolf 2009 (edited 05-24-2001).]

[IceFire]

Its quite good.

Work on lighting and don't up the gamma correction the background so much.  But it looks pretty cool  

[Grey Wolf]

To get the hull effects I used the mettalic option on texturing and increased the Ambience. What do you suggest for the lights?

[Fineus]

I dont know why, but the Apollo seems to blend much better with the background and almost looks cinematic to me, whereas the Basalisk looks a little out of place... you might want to try a larger resolution, and moving them a little away from the screen. Just an idea-  but it definitely looks good  

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[Setekh]

The Basilisk would look better with some motion blur.  

[Grey Wolf]

This render is straight from TS1, no post production (mainly becaus I don't know how)but I think the Basilisk doesn't fit because looks bad because I tried giving th ships a mettalic feel but it just doesn't seem to work w/ Shivan ships.

[Fantomeye]

Don't forget the super duper big LENS FLARE!!!1!!!!

[Ace]

Quick question greywolf, when I take models from .pofs to .cobs into TS1, it doesn't recognize their textures. (perhaps it doesn't have a UV map, but by any means there is no texture)

How did you overcome this little issue?  

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[Grey Wolf]

You have to extract the PCX files and convert to bitmaps. What I then do is paint the whole model w/ the main tex using paint whole object and then paint the thruster on using paint face. You have to do this because TS doesn't know to look into VP files.

[Carl]

give the thruster plumes maximum ambiance. it always works for me, and maybe put a small light on each plume.

[Setekh]

Of course, this texturing method doesn't work for capships, which use lots of textures, and are tiled. Hmmm, I'm meant to be learning that... but I couldn't be bothered...