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Offline DragonClaw

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on: September 06, 2001, 03:17:00 pm
   

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Offline Jabu

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Reply #1 on: September 06, 2001, 03:27:00 pm
The lighting is a bit bland, but otherwise it's a very nice fleet render. Nothing really special, though.

(I've been looking at some real renders recently, so this is less impressive for a few weeks  )
 

Offline Top Gun

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Reply #2 on: September 06, 2001, 03:29:00 pm
 Wow Nice That's a lot of Juggernaughts
 

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Reply #3 on: September 06, 2001, 03:30:00 pm
That's a damn big fleet....!

I'd say about the only thing it really needs is self-illumination on the glowing red bits to set off the shadows better.
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Offline DragonClaw

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Reply #4 on: September 06, 2001, 03:34:00 pm
hehe thanks... I'll see what I can do about the red glowing, for later renders. I can do self-illumination, if it uses a different texture :P

notice the shadows? hehe.
 

Took me 3.2 minutes to render this, went over the picture 9x with ray tracing(in all catagories) and anti-aliasing... I have to say Lightwave 7 is fast and effective  


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Offline Pez

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Reply #5 on: September 06, 2001, 04:21:00 pm
Lunarcell is definitly being overused on this forum. If you have Truespace or any other 3D make the planets in the program. There are some good tutorials for this.

BTW nice render  

Pez

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Offline DragonClaw

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Reply #6 on: September 06, 2001, 04:35:00 pm
  LunarCell makes the best planets, thats why its used...btw I've used it since I started rendering(whoa long time ago). You try making a sphere with textures as good as LunarCell's planets!

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Reply #7 on: September 06, 2001, 04:45:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by RKIF-DragonClaw:
 LunarCell makes the best planets, thats why its used...btw I've used it since I started rendering(whoa long time ago). You try making a sphere with textures as good as LunarCell's planets!


Ok... I challenge you to make a better planet than I coul in 3dsMax. I have the earth, and there's no way you can make a better one than the one I have...
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Reply #8 on: September 06, 2001, 05:00:00 pm
high contrast.. i had the same problem.. then the art teacher at school pointed it out.. and then we have my work from today

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Reply #9 on: September 06, 2001, 07:46:00 pm
 
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Ok... I challenge you to make a better planet than I coul in 3dsMax. I have the earth, and there's no way you can make a better one than the one I have...

Yes, I know, there is a map of earths surface in the CD. The truth is that an experienced ps artist can make better planets than lunarcell.
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Reply #10 on: September 06, 2001, 07:47:00 pm
Yeah, but they have to be experienced.....
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Reply #11 on: September 07, 2001, 06:02:00 am
 
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experienced yes hehee... sandwich has l33t abilities with Photoshop.. I mean d*mn he's good!

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Reply #12 on: September 07, 2001, 02:14:00 pm
 
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 LunarCell makes the best planets, thats why its used...btw I've used it since I started rendering(whoa long time ago). You try making a sphere with textures as good as LunarCell's planets!


Total BS  

Look at this page: http://www.noirextreme.com/digital/digital001122.htm

This is for 3DS MAX but I think you could use the same technic in TS. Of course the maps are made by pros. But I think if you have some skills in PS you could make nice looking planet texture maps.

I have tried Lunarcell and it was good. But I don't like the thing that I really don't have 100% control over what I'm doing (like shadowing is hard to get realistic and you can't use Lunarcell if you want to make animations in a 3d program).

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Reply #13 on: September 07, 2001, 02:28:00 pm
Ohhh yeah that planet is fragged
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Reply #14 on: September 07, 2001, 02:35:00 pm
you dont need bitmaps...in most ways it would be better to use procedurals like noise and mask it off in a tree, a little complex but overall it would look better (even when you were close up) and also you could change the colours more easily.

also try using NURBS for planets if you can, its much more efficient.


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Reply #15 on: September 07, 2001, 04:14:00 pm
 
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experienced yes hehee... sandwich has l33t abilities with Photoshop.. I mean d*mn he's good!

  He meant experienced 3DSMAX people... but thanks for the praise anyways...  



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Reply #16 on: September 08, 2001, 01:39:00 am
 
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you dont need bitmaps...in most ways it would be better to use procedurals like noise and mask it off in a tree, a little complex but overall it would look better (even when you were close up) and also you could change the colours more easily.

also try using NURBS for planets if you can, its much more efficient.


ditto

That noise trick works great for nebulas as well.  I like to use a fractal noise map as the base map, then use a turbulance noise map as a secondary map...just for some irregularity.

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Reply #17 on: September 08, 2001, 07:07:00 am
Well, as for planets, I usually use both LunarCell and TS. Make a very large map in LC, Map Color style, then wrap it around a huge sphere in TS.
 

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Reply #18 on: September 09, 2001, 12:21:00 am
Nice fleet. Could be more redder, though - try and figure that out.  

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Reply #19 on: September 09, 2001, 12:35:00 am
WE ARE GONNA KILL YOU PUNY TERRANS!!!!BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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