[vyper]

The remains of a small Federation battle group retreat from an engagement with a Borg cube.



If anyone knows how to do a Borg tractor beam in tS, could u share this knowledge?

EDIT: Almost forgot - Models by Littel Ludi, Lighting, Scene and rendering by me. Oddly enough.

[Ashrak]

for truespace thats sweet

[HotSnoJ]

The cube looks flat, as in no indents.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by HotSnoJ
The cube looks flat, as in no indents.

Hot's right. You might want to try multiple layered cubes with transparent maps.

[Vilkacis]

Or modeled greeble, that way you don't have to use raytraced shadows which will save you a lot of rendering time and it looks way better than just opacity mapped textures.

[mikhael]

Greebling a borg cube is for the pathologically masochistic.

[Vilkacis]

Maybe some pathologically masochistic people from scifi-meshes.com will lend you one of their borg ships, they're quite good.

[Thorn]

Bump mapping at the very least.....
You may want to ramp up the falloff on the borg ship lights... I dont remember them being bright enough to illuminate a ship a couple hundred meters away....

[vyper]

Originally posted by Thorn
Bump mapping at the very least.....
You may want to ramp up the falloff on the borg ship lights... I dont remember them being bright enough to illuminate a ship a couple hundred meters away....

I know, the problem is the Borg ship a tad to scale and is HUGE for lighting. I was trying out bump mapping on a Borg Sphere earlier but things just got pixellated. *goes back to efforts*

[Carl]

a tractor beam in truespace:

create a green projector light, make it volumetric, and use a bitmap of noise or clouds. to animate simply rotate it.

here's one i just wipped up in 30 seconds:

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by mikhael
Greebling a borg cube is for the pathologically masochistic.

Siggy material!!

Originally posted by Carl
a tractor beam in truespace:

create a green projector light, make it volumetric, and use a bitmap of noise or clouds. to animate simply rotate it.

here's one i just wipped up in 30 seconds:

Wow - that's really good, and simple, too!

[J.F.K.]

That's pretty nice. Classically composed Cube shot.

[Ulala]

Cube is too flat, doesn't look exactly like a cube, no damage to the federation ships from the engagement, no debris, is the cube to scale? I thought they were bigger. Anyway, those are my nitpicks. Great work though!

[vyper]

Originally posted by Carl
a tractor beam in truespace:

create a green projector light, make it volumetric, and use a bitmap of noise or clouds. to animate simply rotate it.

here's one i just wipped up in 30 seconds:

Can I be a pain the shivan arse and ask what exact settings I need in tS? I can't seem to recreate what you did

[Carl]

projector light
1.000 by 1.500 by 0.100

volumetric
hue: 120
saturation: 0.752
intensity: 2
squared falloff
raytraced shadows
project: clouds.bmp(bitmap of rendered clouds in PS)

foreground: volumetric
fog density:2
samples: 32

clouds.bmp:

[HotSnoJ]

I was browsing BlenderWars.com and I came across this.


clickitty

[vyper]

*splutters*

Ohhhh boy....



ph34r teh assimilation!

[Thorn]

If you like that, you should see the ones I have for Lightwave...
A "pathologically masochistic" person made one of the ones I have...
I'd give you a link, but LWG got hacked, so all their stuff is gone...