You and me and art and stuff

Eagle · July 15, 2007

I guess itÂ´s to compare the size of the SDs and the Cloud-City.

Darth_Rob · July 15, 2007

Not for nothing, but Cloud City is freakin huge! I had no idea it towered that much over a ISD.

Defender_16 · July 15, 2007

Mad78 said:
What is that thing?

Eagle said:
I guess itÂ´s to compare the size of the SDs and the Cloud-City.

Defender_16 in the NSO Development Discussion said:
Early rough draft of Alderan station. Center for Alderanian Refugees in the pro-Imperial Timeline.
Cloud City included For platform size comparison.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/Defender_16/AlderaStationRough.gif

SOCL · July 15, 2007

Only issue I see is that the latest sources seem to pin the Executor-class as longer than the Eclipse-class. That is to say, more recent than the Essential Guides.

Defender_16 · July 15, 2007

I did this for NSO though so I included my 8km long "Command Class Super Star Destroyer" which has a diffrient bridge design.

Does anyone know where I can find a floor plan for a standard Destroyer Bridge giving scale?

Jahled · July 15, 2007

Defender_16 said:
I did this for NSO though so I included my 8km long "Command Class Super Star Destroyer" which has a diffrient bridge design.

Does anyone know where I can find a floor plan for a standard Destroyer Bridge giving scale?

http://www.merzo.net/

Always the best place to start

Krytos · July 18, 2007

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7660/planet01wz6.th.jpg

DarthTofu · July 18, 2007

Outclassing everyone again, K! Very Nice! It looks practically real! I suggest that get added to the final version of Reloaded's Encyclopedia as a planet image... Dang!

Defender_16 · July 18, 2007

Must agree with Tofu there.

It's cool. Did you have any particular planet in mind when you made it?

(ie. It's cool, just what the heck is it?)

Mad78 · July 18, 2007

Looks cool. Kryt. What did you use to make it?

Krytos · July 18, 2007

Defender_16 said:
Must agree with Tofu there.

It's cool. Did you have any particular planet in mind when you made it?
(ie. It's cool, just what the heck is it?)

Ha, I didn't think it was that good. I originally made a planet a while back, and only yesterday found another yesterday that had an awesome way of making the atmosphere effect.

The main gist of the "model" are the textures really - which I can't take credit for entirely. I used several high res images of planets in our solar system, merged together and then using a procedural texture in max to make it look like there's water as well. Bump maps, specular highlight maps, cloud map etc. were sourced from the interwebs.

So, what is it? A planet! Made of dirt! Yeah...

Umm, I'll be re-rendering it soon. I might try to do some touch ups.. I do need to re-do the lighting as I may have, just kinda, deleted it

kaja · July 18, 2007

Krytos said:
I do need to re-do the lighting as I may have, just kinda, deleted it

You know, I really hate it when I do that

But it does, (or did?) look nice. Is it a sphere, or is it planar?

Mad78 · July 18, 2007

The best for planets is to use high res Geospheres.

For Modelers who want to make alien planets and have photoshop I highly recommend using LunarCell. It can very rapidly generate high res maps.

Krytos · July 19, 2007

@Kaja: Sphere, or as Mad pointed out geosphere. Raising the poly count of either will work well, but geo's can usually work with a much lower poly count and seem to texture better.

As for the light, never fear Autobak is here! I just looked at my autobak files, and the last two had a modified lighting system that let me get back to the original (I think the original).

@Mad: That plugin is awesome! At first I thought it just did it's own renders but it also allows you to output any type of mape you want - diffuse/color map for clouds or planet, bump maps, opacity maps etc.

Perfect!

EDIT:

A new pic using the textures generated by that plug-in. I think I'll go back and use photoshop to touch up the texture's used though. Particularly some of the colour map and self illumination map used for the city lights (which don't really look to much like a city

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3350/planet02mm8.th.jpg

Jahled · July 19, 2007

Is that lovely little package freeware by anychance?

Krytos · July 19, 2007

Jahled said:
Is that lovely little package freeware by anychance?

Unfortunately not You can download the demo version, which limits what you can do etc. If you want to make the style of image I just did, without a 3d tool, the demo will do that easily

It's not a fast plugin though

DarthTex · July 19, 2007

Krytos said:
A new pic using the textures generated by that plug-in. I think I'll go back and use photoshop to touch up the texture's used though. Particularly some of the colour map and self illumination map used for the city lights (which don't really look to much like a city
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3350/planet02mm8.th.jpg

So K, are these new planet pictures "compatible" with the poor Rebellion graphics? What about size and a "full on" view? I'm not sure if this is just another outlet for your excellent talents, or if this was (hopefully) another way to mod the game (just hoping)

Jahled · July 19, 2007

DarthTex said:

Krytos said:
A new pic using the textures generated by that plug-in. I think I'll go back and use photoshop to touch up the texture's used though. Particularly some of the colour map and self illumination map used for the city lights (which don't really look to much like a city
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3350/planet02mm8.th.jpg
So K, are these new planet pictures "compatible" with the poor Rebellion graphics? What about size and a "full on" view? I'm not sure if this is just another outlet for your excellent talents, or if this was (hopefully) another way to mod the game (just hoping)

Sure they can, you just have to change them to .bmp with the game's colour table, which I can send you if you want.

To bad it's not freeware though, looked a blast.