Oolite Bulletins

Getafix wrote:

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!"

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

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

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

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!

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

Gorgeous! Both inside and out.

Kaks wrote:

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

Griff wrote:

@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.

Kaks wrote:

8 hours well spent!

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

Couldn't resist just one more...



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

CaptKev wrote:

Couldn't resist just one more...

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

JazHaz wrote:

CaptKev wrote:

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.

Smivs wrote:

JazHaz wrote:

CaptKev wrote:

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!

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

looks like he's playing headers w/ the planet