Shipyard

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  poifox
  

  Lighting, please :P

  Written October 16, 2011
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  Ionic
  

  Lighting is there!? Or what do you mean with Lighting exactly? :)

  Written October 16, 2011
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  metalix
  

  We realize there is not much light in space, but you have to look very close to see the ship. You may want to add some environment or bounce lighting to boost visibility :D

  Written October 16, 2011
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  poifox
  

  Lighting as in "I want to see the ship" LOL

  As Metalix said, we know there's no light in space like we have in our daily lives but look at any Sci-Fi movie or artist rendering, they have some type of lighting added for the sake of the viewer.

  Check out Andrew Price's tutorial on the asteroid field and you'll see. ;)

  Written October 16, 2011
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  Ionic
  

  I inceased the lighting from .5 to 1 and add enviromental lighting (.2 add white). Is this better?

  Written October 17, 2011
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  poifox
  

  Not really, watch some Star Treck stuff and how they light their scenes. Also the Blender starfield lacks the cool look, NASA has a lot of space images than can work a lot better and that are licensed public domain :)

  Written October 17, 2011
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  Ionic
  

  Thanks for the advice. I will do another render with another, real background. But mainly, I won't build a real scene, it's just a demo background. Just to have not a plain white background. ;-)

  The model isn't for any blender scene. I'll mainly will use it as an destroyer in a game, which we're developing. :-)

  What's your opinion about the model itself?

  Written October 17, 2011
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  poifox
  

  The model looks very cool actually, The thing I thing is eating up your downloads is the render (you could have hundreds by now) I set the titanium material to a way lighter gray and the render looks super.

  <a href="http://s1189.photobucket.com/albums/z426/savagecode/?action=view&amp;current=shipyard_re_render.png" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z426/savagecode/shipyard_re_render.png</a>

  The thing now is the excessive lighting in the scene, LOL

  Written October 17, 2011
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  Ionic
  

  Thanks for your suggestions. I added a background and lighten the material a bit :-)

  Written October 17, 2011
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  Ionic
  

  sry, added my comment before i've seen your image :-) (iphone surfing) :-)

  you can fix the lightingbug by disabling the compositor in the rendersettings. :-) or try to tweak the compositing for the lighter material :-)

  Written October 17, 2011
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  metalix
  

  Well it's definitely improving :D But with a background as light as that my eyes almost expect a lens flare. Try adding some background bleed or chromatic aberration and see how that looks :D

  Written October 17, 2011
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  poifox
  

  That new render is looking awesome :) some more light interactions and contrast with the sun lamp and you'll have a ready for cinema shot ;)

  Written October 17, 2011
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  Ionic
  

  @Metalix: Do you have a good tutorial or suggestion for a good looking lens flare effekt?

  @Jordan: Your not the first one who said this to me. ^^ But if you take a look at the trusters, those feeling is mostly gone. ^^

  Written October 18, 2011
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  metalix
  

  @Ionic None on my site, there is plenty on blender guru You'll want to have either a subtle broken flare as your looking almost directly at the bright spot (try holding a pencil up to the sun and take a photo of it) Or perhaps have the lens flare coming up from just under the ship with a bit of bleed - blur the ship at the point where the lens flare is so it kinda melts into the background Hope this helps :D

  Written October 18, 2011
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  metalix
  

  http://metalix.co.nz/examples/desolator_001.jpg It's a quicky I whipped up still needs some work of course but this would be the light I would expect. Not that I'm a sci fi guy though :P If you want I can send you the blend You might also want to work a little on texturing, to really bring it out

  Edited October 18, 2011
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  Ionic
  

  Hi Metalix,

  thanks for your comments. I was busy the last days (IT Business Manager Training.... puh...).

  It would be nice if you could sent me the blend. Maybe I could include some parts of it into my revamped Compositor Nodes. :-) I'm currently at some extensions to my compositor settings. And I'm going to improve some of the meshes of the modelparts itself. I'll reupload it during the next week.

  Written October 21, 2011
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  madcat3277
  

  sweet awsome ship

  Written January 25, 2012
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  Ionic
  

  Thank you Madcat!

  Written May 28, 2012
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  spartanash1
  

  looks almost like Spirit of fire from halo wars.

  Written December 10, 2013
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  mac372
  

  Great model! I used it in a 360 video animation, you can check it out here:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tZMEs9tYw&feature=youtu.be

  thank you!

  Written July 27, 2015
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  ryder
  

  This is cool! for a reference how big exactly this ship is? and how many people optimally can fit in?

  Written July 13, 2020