[Carl]

 

[This message has been edited by Carl (edited 08-26-2001).]

[Night Hammer]

That's awesome

[Stryke 9]

Explosions could be fixed, but otherwise one of the better renders I've seen.

[Black Ace]

Love the vasudan in the background... he looks... er... pissed, if thats possible...  

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[Dr.Zer0]

But that plannet is olny in deneb  

anyway, good render  

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[Fineus]

The explosions do need work... but I like it!

[Setekh]

Very nice Vasudan.  

[Carl]

thanky joo guys  

and about those explosions: i took them directly from sparky.vp and put them on using the blending option "screen". isn't that how you are supposed to do it?  

[Darkage]

   damm cool dude great job...

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[Fineus]

 

Originally posted by Carl:
and about those explosions: i took them directly from sparky.vp and put them on using the blending option "screen". isn't that how you are supposed to do it?    

Yep, but they still don't look quiet right... the technique is good, now you just need to put it to good use  

[Carl]

should i have put them in a different place or something?

[Jabu]

School computer: superfast net, bloody awful screen. I'll comment when I get home.

[Fineus]

 

Originally posted by Carl:
should i have put them in a different place or something?

Well let me put it this way, the planets being blown up yeah? so you want to make it look like it's getting blown up. You wouldn't have explosions like that, perhaps the surface would be cracking up... at some point I'll give it a go myself and try and prove I know what I'm talking about (because I'm not sure I do).

[Nico]

there was no taurets when vasuda was destroyed  . Nice pic anyway  

[Jabu]

That Vasudan scares me. That Vasudan scares me a lot.

[Joey_21]

 

Originally posted by Dr.Zer0:
But that plannet is olny in deneb  

anyway, good render  

Not necessarily. It'd make a good Vasudan Prime and Cygnus Prime, though.

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[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
Well let me put it this way, the planets being blown up yeah? so you want to make it look like it's getting blown up. You wouldn't have explosions like that, perhaps the surface would be cracking up... at some point I'll give it a go myself and try and prove I know what I'm talking about (because I'm not sure I do).

What makes it look "off" is the scale. For an explosion on a planetary scale, there wouldn't be any noticable asymetricalness - on such a scale the flaming clouds of gas would spread out in a spherical fashion.  


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[wEvil]

unless where you had large surface features such as mountains, which would make the blast look like the Fs2 shockwave bitmap.

a planet explosion in MAX is pretty simple, shockwave primitive expanding with a purple noise and a corresponding opactiy map with some appropriate ANIMATED glow effects (yes, you can animate them in 3dsmax too).

The planet could be done with the particle array system and a volume light that flares up and then dies down.


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[Pez]

Am I the only one who can't see the pic. I tried the URL (http://www.warpstorm.com/ubb/uploads/998874114.JPG) in the adress bar. Weird

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[Stryke 9]

Plus, it would blow up in a humongous blast, not a few wimply little explosions. I'll have an example out sometime this week (I'm starting to LIKE rendering in RDS... even if everything i see is yellow!)