[Sandwich]

Well, I've used the Finger Nebula™ again, this time for the GVCa Amaunet.   Render time was somewhere above 1 hour. Enjoy!
 

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[Shrike]

Indeed, cool.

[Night Hammer]

I like it  

[Thorn]

Very nice....

[Blue Lion]

 You TM'ed the Finger Nebula? Oh yea, GJ  

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[Setekh]

Very sweet. Nice job  

[NeoHunter]

Like the way the wireframe melds inito the actual ship with textures and all......how did you do it?

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[Fineus]

Woah, cool! That ships really does rock dude  

[Carl]

actually, the finger nebula popped up at WS a few months before that, so you can't TM it.

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by NeoHunter:
Like the way the wireframe melds inito the actual ship with textures and all......how did you do it?

The same way I did...   With a screen layer, just like an explosion.

 

Not hard  

[Sandwich]

   

Originally posted by Setekh:
The same way I did...     With a screen layer, just like an explosion.

Actually....    

Only the wireframe layer (yes, it was post production) was set to screen. That just made it look more like a glow than a physical frame.

To blend the two parts, I used layer masks with diagonal gradients, with the mask of the wireframe inversed from the mask of the ship, so the wireframe showed up exactly in those places where the ship was hidden.    

EDIT: To be honest, I've had the picture of the Finger (aka. Keyhole) Nebula on my HD since April 29th, 2000 - so I think that was before it got to WS....  

I was just TM'ing the "Finger" moniker - not the picture. The picture is actually TM'ed by God. But let's not get into that again...  

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[DragonClaw]

it's beautiful  

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[NeoHunter]

How do you render just the wireframe anyway? 3D Studio Max 4 renders the model with textures or the default material which is something like a greyish skin. I don't know where to tell it to render just the wireframe....

And does anybody know how to make a wireframe glow in Photoshop?

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[Stryke 9]

4 thumbs and a prehensile toe up. But it's a little bright. Like the ship...

[Fineus]

 

Originally posted by NeoHunter:
And does anybody know how to make a wireframe glow in Photoshop?

On the layer you want to add the glow to, double click to open "Blending Options", then click the box marked outer glow and then the tab the box is actually on to bring up the options. Play about and then click "ok".

Done  

[NeoHunter]

Thanks a lot, Thunder!!!

Someone to teach me Photoshop.....I'm so glad.....sob sob

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[Pez]

 

Originally posted by NeoHunter:
How do you render just the wireframe anyway? 3D Studio Max 4 renders the model with textures or the default material which is something like a greyish skin. I don't know where to tell it to render just the wireframe....

And does anybody know how to make a wireframe glow in Photoshop?

Go into the material editor. Under "shader basic parameters" there's a box named "wire". Check it and then apply the material to the model. Then you have a nice wireframe.

If you want both wire and glow. Just make a copy of the model and scale it a little bigger. Apply wireframe and glow to it and get a nice pic. Voila!

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Pez:
If you want both wire and glow. Just make a copy of the model and scale it a little bigger. Apply wireframe and glow to it and get a nice pic. Voila!

whoch  
better go in the video editor, first add a camera event, then a glow event and assign it to the map used by the model  
that will look way better  

[Pez]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
whoch  
better go in the video editor, first add a camera event, then a glow event and assign it to the map used by the model  
that will look way better  

That was what I ment. Use videopost for the glow.

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Pez:
If you want both wire and glow. Just make a copy of the model and scale it a little bigger. Apply wireframe and glow to it and get a nice pic. Voila!

yeah right