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Just call it a warp core breach. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.Darth Ruinus wrote:wjs7744, thats a pretty cool picture. Except the last bolt, it doesnt look aligned with the other bolts, but eh, still good.
havokeff, is the Enterprise blowing up just by being near the ISD?
Wouldn't the Defiant end up ripping off a significant portion of it's hull if it tried to fit in the DS1 trench?Sidewinder wrote:Good. All we need now is a picture of the Death Star proving that lasers CAN penetrate a Starfleet vessel's navigational deflectors. Maybe have the Defiant do the trench run to get at the Death Star's Achilles heel, only to be blown away by Darth Vader's TIE fighter.
Sidewinder wrote:Good. All we need now is a picture of the Death Star proving that lasers CAN penetrate a Starfleet vessel's navigational deflectors. Maybe have the Defiant do the trench run to get at the Death Star's Achilles heel, only to be blown away by Darth Vader's TIE fighter.
Like I said before, these aren't my models, the entire point of the images is the special effects. If I were to simply render the models, all it would entail would be plonking one down in a scene and pressing the render button. That could only give the impression that I made the models, when I didn't. I'm not too keen on plagiarism, or whatever the hell it's called with respect to artwork.Bubble Boy wrote:And the whole "make the Enterprise blowing up" bullshit is annoying. Yes, we fucking know already, the ISD would squash the Enterprise like a bug. Now can we see the model of the ship or are we stuck with just an explosion to satisfy the dicks of the wankers here?
Thanks for the constructive criticism. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with my phaser effects, and the only way I've found to make them work is to have the launcher stationary, hence no motion blur (Lightwave only renders motion blur while objects are moving; I don't know how to fake it for ones that aren't). About the lighting, I'm not quite sure what you mean, it looks OK to me. Are you sure it isn't an issue with your monitor; does anyone else see what he's talking about?1138 wrote:Some suggestions: The lighting looks a bit weird (the dark sides of the ISD are kind of bright). It might look better if you toned down the ambient light level a bit. The bright parts in the ISD trench are a bit over saturated, as well. Also, the Enterprise could use some motion blur to imply motion.
Animate the ship to fake the motion and render out a still frame at the correct position. To keep the phaser effect looking fine, render the ships only with the phaser effect invisible and motion blur turned on. Save the frame. Next, set all objects to be Matte objects with a color of black. Turn off motion blur. Make the phaser effect visible again and render at the same frame as before. Use a bitmap editor to composite the phaser effect back on to the frame earlier. In the LW 5.6 days, there was a way to turn off motion blur for specific objects (such as the phaser effect object) but the Independent Motion Blur plugin has disappeared in later versions. However, compositing the effect is always going to give better control.wjs7744 wrote:Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with my phaser effects, and the only way I've found to make them work is to have the launcher stationary, hence no motion blur (Lightwave only renders motion blur while objects are moving; I don't know how to fake it for ones that aren't). About the lighting, I'm not quite sure what you mean, it looks OK to me. Are you sure it isn't an issue with your monitor; does anyone else see what he's talking about?
The Feds have fightersDarksider wrote:Wouldn't the Defiant end up ripping off a significant portion of it's hull if it tried to fit in the DS1 trench?Sidewinder wrote:Good. All we need now is a picture of the Death Star proving that lasers CAN penetrate a Starfleet vessel's navigational deflectors. Maybe have the Defiant do the trench run to get at the Death Star's Achilles heel, only to be blown away by Darth Vader's TIE fighter.
Actually, that might make a cool picture.
OK, I now see that you aren't using Ambient (I thought you were at first, but after reading your post, I looked at some work of mine which used fill lights and the lighting reminded me of yours). In that case, you can try using Area lights for fill lights, using Ambient occlusion or using light arrays (fastest option of the three but it takes longer to setup). It'll be slow but the crevices will have proper shadowing that brings out the details. You could also paint a texture that simulates all the shadows around details; it'll look really nice and saves on render time. But it takes manual effort. I'd say try raising the intensity of your main light as a way of increasing visual contrast. But now we're really starting to get into personal aesthetics. I like my space scenes to be fairly harsh in lighting. But lighting is a lot of work and quite hard to get right.wjs7744 wrote:Well, first off I am using 0% ambient, and a 3-point rig. Maybe some of my lights are a little bright? Here is the first shot with only my primary light active, and here is the second (I haven't gotten round to fixing the turbolasers or the explosion yet. And no, I don't know why the explosion has gone blue either; that's what I'm going to try and find out now).
Right, the Defiant wouldn't even fit in the trench, now would it?wjs7744 wrote:<snip>Sidewinder wrote:Good. All we need now is a picture of the Death Star proving that lasers CAN penetrate a Starfleet vessel's navigational deflectors. Maybe have the Defiant do the trench run to get at the Death Star's Achilles heel, only to be blown away by Darth Vader's TIE fighter.
Sorry, what was your question again?
They do say a picture is worth a thousand words, right?Surlethe wrote:Right, the Defiant wouldn't even fit in the trench, now would it?
Perfectly sure. The ISD is 1.6km, and the enterprise is a little shy of 700m.Zablorg wrote:Are you sure the Enterprise is that size compared to the ISD?
