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[Cmdr Wyvern]

It indeed gives me the same feeling as some scenes from Odyssey 2001.
And the advertisement resembles to the monolith!

Weeeeeeeell....Almost.

"By Giles, its full of spam!"

[Cody]

Griff rocks... er, I mean Griff's rock.

[Killer Wolf]

as Ruby would say, that's gorgeous isn't it?

[Griff]

i used the render in lightwave to bake the light in the tunnel into an illumination map, i haven't done this before and i don't think i got the render settings correct, it took 8 hours to calculate the lighting for the back wall of the tunnel, although all the other elements only took about 4 mins. to do i must have had the radiosity settings too high

[Kaks]

Hmm, you could try making the azure ambient light dimmer (2/3rds of the present brightness maybe?) still, it does look really good already, and I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking that!

8 hours well spent!

[Cody]

I know zilch about the lighting thingy... it's that external metallic rock texture I love.

[Commander McLane]

Gorgeous! Both inside and out.

[Griff]

Hmm, you could try making the azure ambient light dimmer (2/3rds of the present brightness maybe?)

i could let the shaders randomise the brightness, so some hermits are dimly lit and others more brightly lit? i did toy with the idea of not letting light from the sun illuminate the tunnel polygons, so they'd only be lit using the illumination map because i think when sunlight & illumination map combine it all gets too bright, but i think taking out the sunlight in the tunnel will stop the normal map working

What was disappointing about the 8 hour rendering calculation was that the end result looked exactly the same as if i'd just taken the colour texturemap and desaturated it, which would have taken about 8 seconds!
It kind of put me off experimenting with placing the lights in the render program, some of the exeriments looked nice and moody, although now i've got the lighting rendered out, i might be able to 'moodify' it up a bit in photoshop with the brightness/contrast tools

@ Devs, any chance we can get realtime ray traced shadows in Oolite? - just joking

@El Viejo - i've seen some preview renderings of asteroids that someones working on at the moment that are going to blow your sombrero off when the oxp gets released

[Cody]

@El Viejo - i've seen some preview renderings of asteroids that someones working on at the moment that are going to blow your sombrero off when the oxp gets released

Oh good... I look forward to that. I don't 'pop my sombrero' for every rock I see, you know.

[CaptKev]

8 hours well spent!

Ditto, Griff's work just keeps on getting better.

[CaptKev]

Couldn't resist just one more...



How much does an image need to be altered before it could be considered your own work?

[JazHaz]

Couldn't resist just one more...

Wow, nice image! How comes the bird is not green though?

[Smivs]

Couldn't resist just one more...

Wow, nice image! How comes the bird is not green though?

Oh, I don't know. He's got 'Rookie' written all over him.

[CaptKev]

Couldn't resist just one more...

Wow, nice image! How comes the bird is not green though?

Oh, I don't know. He's got 'Rookie' written all over him.

Beat me to it!

[Killer Wolf]

does that mean he's like a rook? that's DaddyHoggy innit?!

looks like he's playing headers w/ the planet