Attention Shipset Builders..

[David E. Gervais]

I was just thinking,.. if any of you shipset builders were to render some of your favorite ships in larger format I might be motivated to create a 'Stellar Montage' with them.

It's just a thought, Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Katchoo]

David, how large of a render do you want?

I trust you'd want them in *.BMP format aswell?

[David E. Gervais]

anything that you think would be a good size for the screen rez of choice. (ie: If you want an extreme closeup of the ship in the foreground, then it can even be rendered bigger than the final screen rez. I would crop what I needed.)

I'm thinking that these 'montages' would be a colaberation, so the ship builder would be free to render the ship at whatever size he/she thinks would look good. Also, the 'angle' of the view is not limited to the 'standard' iso type perspective in se4. If you would like to have a ship heading towards a planet and seen from the rear then that's an option too.

Bottom line, I'll leave that part of the decision to you ship builders. I'll take creative licence for the backgrounds though.

Kapish? Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Edit: I can handle prety much any format (except if it's mac specific) So bmp, jpg, png whatever is easiest for you.

[ March 07, 2004, 17:00: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[Atrocities]

Sounds cool.

[TerranC]

An example of such a collaboration:

--Link-- (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimagepopup&pid=11&fullsize=1)

Don't delay; get your renders in today!

[ March 07, 2004, 19:36: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Ed Kolis]

Oh, how I wish I still had my Fractalian ship models... maybe I can dig them up somewhere, if I could remember where I had them... but if you want you can just use one of my ship portrait pics and just have my ship off in the distance or something http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

edit: wait, you want an Ilwrath Avenger (http://home.fuse.net/koliset/SE4/Ilwrath_Portrait_Escort.PNG) or a Spathi Eluder from Star Control that I modelled? Or do you only want original ships? I also have a Constitution class model from Star Trek (but the texturing sucks), and some of the units in my Borg set actually look halfway decent http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ March 07, 2004, 23:03: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

[David E. Gervais]

Edited to remove link, the site no longer exists.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ March 12, 2004, 10:52: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

looked around that site, David and i think one of those was used in 'close encounters'.

look under 'devil's tower'.

[trooper]

maybe you would like something like that :

http://diesel2035.free.fr/starship/battleship.jpg

or that :

http://diesel2035.free.fr/starship/carrierpreview.jpg

it would be fine to add some fighters and troop schuttles too... got to do something about that this WE.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooh...pretty pictures... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[David E. Gervais]

Nice ships Trooper, keep an eye on spaceempires.net 's image galery, when I get a montage made, I'll upload it there.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Edit: I made a montage called 'Convoy Guardian' Using the pics you posted below. Now it's just a matter of having fyron aprove the upload and make it viewable in the gallery.

Once it's up, post any coments here. Enjoy!

[ March 13, 2004, 01:02: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[David E. Gervais]

The picture is now up and running in the Image Gallery over at SpaceEmpires.Net (http://www.spaceempires.net/home/).

Go ahead, don't be shy, take a gander and let me know what you think.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

P.S. The pic looks nice imho, but something for you 'modelers' to keep in mind when rendering, is that the 'light-source' for the models will not match the background renderings if you use standard se4 conventions.

Personally I like the crescent look of backlighting the planet. but I'll let you modelers use your imagination for where the light source comes from. It might be interesting to do a pair of renderings, one backlit, and another standard front. But I digress, Enjoy!

[ March 13, 2004, 13:27: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[trooper]

you're too fast for me !
Just made some additional pics on the same theme :

various fighter group :
http://diesel2035.free.fr/starship/fightergroup.jpg

Carrier fleet, destroyers and cruisers :
http://diesel2035.free.fr/starship/carrierfleet.jpg

[trooper]

By the way, those pictures are very cool... Where have you found those backgrounds ? You've made them yourself ???

[pathfinder]

Trooper & Mr Gervais: Both of you have done excellent work!

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by trooper:
By the way, those pictures are very cool... Where have you found those backgrounds ? You've made them yourself ??? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I make the backgrounds myself using the same tools that I'm using for my se5 work. Namely the flamingpear plugins Gliteretto, Solarcell and Lunarcell. I do the montage work in artgem.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

pretty pictures, both of you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif