[Cobra]

Do something about the cargo textures; they seem to stand out too much while the rest of the ship is glowing like Vegas on Saturday night.

[IceyJones]

of course your right.....don´t know why, but the spec-channel was disabled....fixed...so in the ani it will look okay....

and as in the animation the glow is MUCH less (this here was just a play with effects) you will not see anything of this "unbalanced" texture...

[jdjtcagle]

That quality is insane! 

[Vasudan Admiral]

Wow, those are lovely. What sort of effects are you using to get that? Fiddling with spec, glow and normal maps I get, but it looks like you have some kind of bloom applied as well?

Awesome stuff.

[IceyJones]

i have added a general glow over the whole picture and added also a spectecular glow post effect which only applies over a certain glow-level on the very bright lit surfaces.....if i have time i will post my whole render settings.....

in total i use approx. 5 or 6 effects for these renderings.....

and for sure we can do more with photoshop as postprocessing....

[IceyJones]

hey VA....attached are the main settings in cinema (dont know if blender offeres the same) for this rendering - of course these settings may vary depending on the scene, and especially on the lighting. For example the settings in the orion picture for the highlights are only half of the values here, because the orion material is much more reflective than this rough surface on the ulysses....



beside the screenie-settings attached i used 10% edge-sharpening and 10% contrast increasement.







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[Vasudan Admiral]

Hmm, those look like overall scene effects, and since blender does all that through nodes it probably won't be too helpful. Ah well - it should at least give me an idea of what to look for, thanks.

[IceyJones]

right.....these all are general scene-post effects, no meterial-effects.....

[IceyJones]

did a re-texture of our lt. cannonfodder and did also posemixing. everything can be done with sliders now in order to change the mood of him:

[jdjtcagle]

WOW

[IceyJones]

made the helmet complete new! but hell.....a normal head definately DOES NOT FIT IN IT! this is the most stupid helmet i´ve ever seen. reference was the cockpit-texture.....so i had to modyfy it a little bit in order to squeeze the head in.....however:



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[FreeSpaceFreak]

You could add those to A Celebration of FreeSpace. They're really good. Especially the Ravana. I love Ravanas

[Vidmaster]

looks awesome, but does we actually have the ulysses battle-ready at this point of the campaign? I dont think so.
Cockpit shot is neat too 

[Jeff Vader]

Man... You should add those to "A Celebration of FreeSpace". They're really good. Especially the Ravana. I love Ravanas

so i convertet die new ravana to cinema4d.....heck....that was some kind of war! the conversion went wrong, so i had to reselect every poly in order to map the textures on it......jesus.....that took hours.....nevertheless the result:

*snip*

but from this point i HATE ravanas......

did a re-texture of our lt. cannonfodder and did also posemixing. everything can be done with sliders now in order to change the mood of him:

*snip

Man, that is some quality ****. Fantastic. Also, no offence, but the last expression just asked for it.

[IceyJones]

hahaha.....nice.....and im glad, that you like mr fodder........cannon fodder.....

but of course no.....the ulysses is NOT ready.....but please read my statements.....these beautyrenderings are for the german WIKI.....nothing else

[colecampbell666]

The Orion is the best ship in FSO IMO.

The only gripe I have about the pilot is that the face mask texture is a bit too low res. Maybe pan out a bit for the shot. Oh and he also looks like a Combine Advisor.

[FSW]

The HUD is flipped horizontally.

[IceyJones]

already fixed the hud.....

and sorry....my digicam has not a very good resolution....so my ugly face is not in best shape


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[IceyJones]

again 11 pm...... 

someone coffee or a duff?

[Snail]

Hehe. Add that as an easter egg to the cutscene...