[Setekh]

I know this is rather ancient and random, but I understand a few people around were looking for something like this.

www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh

For those too lazy to make the click, it's just a thumbnailed listing of all the renders I've published (basically from 2001-3). This sort of thing would usually be accessible through the Array, but that thing has been 'down' since GS's dynamic server went partially screwy. Which was quite a while ago.

Brought back quite a few memories having a flick through this stuff, so I thought some of you might enjoy it.

[Grug]

Brings back memory's, and fills in gaps that I missed.

Nice collection there Setekh, you've certainly contributed quite a lot over the years.

[TopAce]

I haven't seen some of them yet!
Great jobs, Setekh.
Are all those yours?

[Roanoke]

[Unknown Target]

Weren't you supposed to get back to rendering, Setekh?

[Bobboau]

you should get back into it, surely you have a free hour or two every once in a while.

[pyro-manic]

We the people demand more.

[Setekh]

It's funny how a lot of people have missed big chunks of it. There's quite a volume of work there... I didn't realise how much I'd actually produced in those quick two years. Yes TopAce, they're all mine.

As for getting back to it, there are few things I wouldn't give to be able  to return to my older days of glory. It sure was a heck of a lot of fun - and all the material is there for plenty of rendering (I always used to feed off of the mods around here - and there's a lot more to render now than there was three years ago!).

The truth, though, is that I've quite consciously devoted my time to other stuff - 'other' important things around HLP, family (with mum passed away and my sister moved out after graduating, that leaves my dad and brother and I at home - I take care of things, generally speaking), commitments to my church (leading a couple of youth groups in Bible study) and uni work too.

That, and the fact that I always put out my best work when I had sufficiently free time when all I could do was sit and render for days. I remember the summer of 2001-2, when I published something like 60 or 70 renders in just over a month... a couple everyday. When my creative juices get flowing, I can't stop. But when I don't get to devote enough time to it properly, it drives me mad.

[Jetmech Jr.]

F*cking ACE.

[pyro-manic]

Whoah - I thought I'd seen everything you've done, but I'm sure I've never seen some of those.... Awesome stuff. Your composition is practically perfect.

Perhaps you should set a bit of time aside for it - a couple of hours one night a week? Once a fortnight? I'd love to be able to see what SPIRE would make of something like bob's uber-ised Orion. Maybe you'll have more time over the summer...

[Jetmech Jr.]

Outta curiosity, whats up with those Dubhe themed ones? Is that supposed to be a mission?

Have you ever thought about learning to make Cutscenes?

[Setekh]

Oh, and if anyone's curious, I added a few of my favourites from the old "FreeSpace Story" project. Those are old, I added an anchor for them:

www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/#fsstory

Thanks, Pyro. Composition was always my favourite part - that, and putting a story behind every one of my renders. Ironically, those two seem to be the elements most missing from the more recent crop of FS renders (though they're not all that recent anymore).

The Dubhe themed ones... I think I just really liked the name Dubhe, and was looking for an excuse to do something fun with the terrain I had built for myself (you can see the gridline version of it in the Sadon Valley pic). I suppose someone can make it into a mission (or a campaign) if they like... now that we have missions with terrain using the SCP, anything's possible.

In regard to cutscenes, I think I said to myself a long time ago that I would probably never do them. I never had a fast computer; just doing the stills and getting them right took me long enough, so I think I preferred to stay with what I could do well.

[Ghost]

Yessss... all those 'story' renders were the ones I was wanting a while back, Setekh. Domo arigato.

[Setekh]

Cool, I'm glad I found you/you found it, Ghost. By the way, was there a particular one you were looking for? I know the Lions' Den renders were a couple of my most favourite.

[Ghost]

I was looking for "behemoth.jpg." That particular picture was amazing when I first saw it(still is; glad it's up there), although now that I look at it... it seems that the gunners on the Fenris and Rakshasa have really bad aim.

[Setekh]

Yeah, that's partly because I hadn't yet come up with a convincing way to render explosions on ships. Okay, it's completely because of that. You can see I developed my explosion rendering in lucifer-explode-prev.jpg and neptune-boom.jpg... but I wasn't really pleased with it until about century.jpg. After that, there were explosions a-plenty (e.g. covenant.jpg).

[FireCrack]

It's a beam cannon, not a damn lightsaber!

[Singh]

Amazing stuff Setekh

All hail Setekh, Freespace Render Master!

[Kie99]

Very Nice!

My favourites are the one with the clouds over the sea and the Lucifer about to explode.

[Singh]

setekh - do you mind I alter one of the renders/images for the comic im working on? In particular, im hoping to use the Century battle 2 if its allright