On The Way

[megacal]

How did you create that beautiful galaxy??? You can do that with TG2?

I'm not using TG2 yet, but very interested in it.

[mesocyclone]

Beautiful, waiting for the animation! 

[Kadri]

Thanks guys

Megacal the galaxy is a procedural used on the background node with a mask
that is made from a heavily postworked hurricane image i found on the web.
There is not much displacement-3D there. It is very subtle.
Probably an image as background would be the same. So nothing hard there.
Look at the file sharing section here.There are many good files to learn.
There is a file from moodflow
( Edit : http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=4391.msg46100#msg46100 ) .
You can used as it is or change it  etc.
You can use the clouds as nebula's , galaxies too.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

back from may... missed this one.

i partically like the space craft design in this project
interesting.

[Kadri]

Thanks Lane

Why i did not animate it immediately will be clearer i think if i paste this from Terranuts here :

" Here is the original raw spaceship image.

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It is in fact the same image as i used in the picture here.
It has only some displacements from a image map made with the micro render (ray trace objects OFF) in TG2 .
It has no real detail and no color . I put the color in post on the image.
I made it very fast from an 16 year old model with basic lathe operations etc.
It is the very old version of the model i used here.


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I have unfortunately not the same patience like some other guys here for modeling  So i cheat where i can
But i liked the outcome of the model (at least in the postworked image) and i think i will make it ones more seriously this time with real detail and surface."

As you see the final spaceship and the original are different.
For an animation i have to build the spaceship ones more.

[Kadri]

And the thruster FX :

"I did a crop from the background then made two copies of it.
Blurred one a little.
On the other copy i used a little motion blur and then put them over themselves and tried some blending methods.
I copied the resulting one and copied it ones more and tried other blending methods ones more.
There are so many other looks you can get ."

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[TheBadger]

what was your render times for these Kadri? Should be pretty fast I would think?

I would still do the thrusters in post. Thats simple enough.

[Kadri]

It was 5 minutes or so i think ,without postwork .