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Chris2005

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

That's a nice effect. It will make those flybys seem even more realistic.

Thanks.

Here's an image update, got the secondary hull done... I'm gonna render it out... and upload it to YT...

If I could think of something more abstract to do, story wise for a video, but I stick VFX recreations, because I have at least something to go on, I've never been good at story writing, lol.

evil_genius_180

Story writing is one of my passions. In fact, I'd love to write and make a CG film (at least a short one) but I'll have to learn a lot more about animation first.

Chris2005

I've got the top bridge area to do, and then the interior will be done.

These pictures were rendered before I did the saucer rim windows, etc.

Chris2005

Rendering a few clips now, should have a compiled video up soon, finally got our old ISP (Time Warner Cable) back... our upload speed is like 4.96 Mbps and our download speed is 26 Mbps or 0.62 MB/s upload, and 3.25MB/s download speed. We went to AT&T broadband because it was cheaper, and now we know why, we only had like 6 Mbps, and that was the fastest residential speed offered in our state.

evil_genius_180

I know what you mean, I have AT&T. (but it's the less expensive 1.5 MB/s) Though, about this time last year, I upgraded to that from NetZero dialup, so it's a hell of a lot faster than that. However, it can't touch the cable speeds.

Chris2005

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

I know what you mean, I have AT&T. (but it's the less expensive 1.5 MB/s) Though, about this time last year, I upgraded to that from NetZero dialup, so it's a hell of a lot faster than that. However, it can't touch the cable speeds.

Question, on the TOS model, do all the bussard lights blink, or just certain ones?

evil_genius_180

As far as I know, they all blink. At least, that's what mine do. I don't know if anybody has ever figured it out. I'll tell you who would have a better idea than me: Tallguy or scifieric. They've both studied the TOS ship like nobody else I know.

Chris2005

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

As far as I know, they all blink. At least, that's what mine do. I don't know if anybody has ever figured it out. I'll tell you who would have a better idea than me: Tallguy or scifieric. They've both studied the TOS ship like nobody else I know.

Thanks.

Chris2005

The process of renders with the interiors being added... I still need to find a better texture, as the interior is not exactly stellar, but what can you do with a tiled image, lol.

Chris2005

I did the stars a different way, by using a multi-material in Max... I'll make a video showing exactly what I did, since the Video Post stars don't offer anything in terms of color variations, I piddled in the material editor, to create the starfield... it requires some tweaking, but in the end, at least for the TOS-R look, if that's what you're going for, you can get what you see here... of course, you can tweak it some more and get a more movie like look, as seen in TUC.



Images courtesy TrekCore.

The Undiscovered Country:







TOS-R:

evil_genius_180

Nice work so far on the Whom Gods Destroy effects. :thumb:

That's the one in the prison with the shapeshifter, right?

Chris2005

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

Nice work so far on the Whom Gods Destroy effects. :thumb:

That's the one in the prison with the shapeshifter, right?

Thanks.

Yes, Kirk faces off with an demented shape-shifting starship captain determined to control the universe.

Chris2005

This just a view-port preview, the Enterprise will actually be in front of the planet as she passes.

The planet is what's to be rendered, the Enterprise is inserted as the view-port background.

evil_genius_180

Interesting. It looks good, even though it's not in the correct order.

IRML

chris you have disabled embedding videos, either just give us a link or enable embedding, as it is right now there's no point embedding here because no one can use the player

Chris2005

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

Interesting. It looks good, even though it's not in the correct order.

Thanks.

IRML wrote: »

chris you have disabled embedding videos, either just give us a link or enable embedding, as it is right now there's no point embedding here because no one can use the player

Dang, it's a habit, sorry, embedding enabled.

Melak

That makes the enterprise look only a slight bit bigger than usual

Chris2005

Melak wrote: »

That makes the enterprise look only a slight bit bigger than usual

lol

NanoGator

Yeah I think you took my advice too far....

Chris2005

NanoGator wrote: »

Yeah I think you took my advice too far....

How so... I'm afraid I don't remember what it was? lol.

NanoGator

I said the ship looked small.

Chris2005

NanoGator wrote: »

I said the ship looked small.

ah, lol.

Chris2005

Altering Flat Eric's Voyager, but not by much, just the running lights, directional lights, etc.

Flat Eric's Model:


Actual Series CG Voyager:

evil_genius_180

Does this mean you'll be doing some Voyager animations? That would be cool.

Chris2005

Here is Sarod's Voyager, I've altered the deflector, warp, and bussard colors, added some glows, the light cast from the deflector is cast right from the deflector, using fR Object Light, which embeds lighting into geometry... allowing for realistic light angles, etc. for example, one could put it on the Connie Refit warp engines, and they would cast light directly from them... altering a few settings, and it could look very nice.

For some reason, Sarod's renders faster than Flat Eric's... and I'm not sure why... Sarod's has more modeled geometry...

evil_genius_180

The textures could cause Flat Eric's to render more slowly.

Chris2005

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

The textures could cause Flat Eric's to render more slowly.

Hmmmm, let me try rendering his model without the textures...

Without textures, Flat Eric's renders in about 13 seconds @ 960x720, with textures, it renders at 19 seconds.

Without textures, Sarod's renders in about 16 seconds @ 960x720, with textures, it renders at 17 seconds.

Not much faster, but it seems much faster.

evil_genius_180

That's it? I thought you were talking a matter of minutes or something.

Chris2005

evil_genius_180 wrote: »

That's it? I thought you were talking a matter of minutes or something.

Well, it seems like FA's takes a lot longer...

evil_genius_180

Got it. Those two seconds seem like an eternity. (of course, it is an eternity for an android )

Seriously, I know what you're talking about. When you're rendering something, you want it NOW. Any delay, no matter how negligible, seems to take away from that.