Maybe...Starships

[DiscoBall]

discoball what 3dmodels have you found that would be good for terragen renders? linkys?...

www.turbosquid.com . There should be a link for 'free' models on the front page, go there, and search around There's some pretty good one's, however most are in max..

[king_tiger_666]

yeah i have used turbosquird but not many scifi models on it, hope to get startrek voyager working soon:D

[rcallicotte]

This looks awesome, though.

Some experimenting with getting max into obj...

max export to obj, obj-obj conversion in poseray... as the original max file has what seemed to be over 100 textures... and multishaders only support up to 16


model is from scifi-meshes

more mesh conversions to come  thanks to this new updated tg2

[king_tiger_666]

a little further down the track, took some time getting the light sources in place so there is warp cells... would be handy if surfaces could emit light... perhaps in a near future update?

updated jpg link

[king_tiger_666]

Here is a obj  conversion of the startrek model from .max,  it is 3.5mb zipped 20mb (uncompressed)
Also there is a tgd I have included which you will want you use from scratch or if you want to import this model into one of your existing works. open the tgd I supplied and copy and paste the node network for the arrow_runabout.obj  enjoy

thanks to Mark Azevedo for the mesh and allowing me to share the conversion
http://rawjdmbj.4free.co.nz/obj_arrow_runabout.zip

[rcallicotte]

What about trying something with the reflective shader by cranking the values?

a little further down the track, took some time getting the light sources in place so there is warp cells... would be handy if surfaces could emit light... perhaps in a near future update?

updated jpg link

[king_tiger_666]

I didn't try turning up the reflective shader...  maybe thats worth trying?

[Mohawk20]

What about trying something with the reflective shader by cranking the values?

a little further down the track, took some time getting the light sources in place so there is warp cells... would be handy if surfaces could emit light... perhaps in a near future update?

updated jpg link

Surfaces can allready emit light. Try the luminosity option... atleast the surface layer has it, and the deafault aswell I believe. It works, just crank up the values really high.

[Oshyan]

You also need to make sure GI is on for luminous surfaces to work properly. You don't necessarily need high values though.

- Oshyan