[Razor]

It's been 5 months or maybe even more since I rendered something, so here's a one I did today. Any opinions? Suggestions? They are welcome as always.
Razor

I called this one: Up close and personal

Link removed... Don't use an0n's webspace - he loves doing crap like this. // Sandwich

EDIT. I just noticed that it looks very pixelised. If you get this too, please tell me.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Hey, that's pretty nice!

You might want to make the shivan beam a bit brighter, the white center is a bit bland.

[Nico]

rotate the turrets and remove the turret debris on the corvette, first.

[aldo_14]

Agree with the 2 above, I'd also suggest adding some incidental detail - i.e. more laser fire from the ships towards each other, maybve even flak - you've got the glow & the explosion looking pretty damn nice

[Razor]

Ok thanks. guys. Yes, it's been a while since my last render, but I am just getting back into shape. A few things that I can't do. I can't rotate the turrets because simply said, I don't know how. So anyone know how to rotate the turrets in Lightwave? I guess I might be able to make flak explosions. I might use the test explosion i used here which was blended with other explosions so it may work. Now I don't egt this. When I view the immage my self, it all looks pixelised and blurry. What's the problem? I am having this only in my browser IE6, but when I made the render, it looked ok I guess.

[Ashrak]

ok what i suggest is kill the specularity on the shivan ships... give em glow maps..... and set damage texture transparency to 100 on deimos

[Razor]

The shivan ships allready have glows added, it's just tha tthey are small and a bit too far away to notice. Deimos has glows just like Rakshasas..

[Ashrak]

hmm but still take off the specularity unless you have spec maps

Edit: on a BETTER not give the glossiness and specularity the same settings as the main texture aka press T set UV map XDS soft and the map then use texture this will give you PRETTY good shines  

[Nico]

it doesn't look pixelised to me, btw.

[Razor]

Well then that's good, but how do I solve my problem?

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Venom
rotate the turrets and remove the turret debris on the corvette, first.

I agree 100%.  The overlapping debris models kill more otherwise decent renders than any other flaw.

[Vilkacis]

Originally posted by Razor
I can't rotate the turrets because simply said, I don't know how. So anyone know how to rotate the turrets in Lightwave?

I never used Lightwave myself but I'm pretty sure there must be some way to rotate objects, just take a quick look into Lightwave's user reference that should get you the neccesary info. And you might want to work a bit on that explosion effect, it looks too 2D in contrast to the image

[Ashrak]

id love to know how to rotate turrets easily

[CobaltStarr]

Well the turrets would need to be either seperate objects or seperate layers (v. 6.0+ only) but either way they will then be available for rotation and the rest...

[Knight Templar]

beautiful work razor.. really...



edit: hi cobalt. Welcome to the living.

[Anaz]

ok...I'm going to go wash my eyes out with hydrochloric acid.

That's not what I expected to see.

[Tian Guan]

Fag

[Fr3z3r]

Whooops, young brother's joke, Razor?

[Turnsky]

[Setekh]

I feel violated, Turnsky.