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-RJB-'s High polygon models and scenes thread

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Very, very nice :thumbsup: . Some nice shadows on the engines, gives a nice sense of depth.

Whats the final poly count, if I had to hazard a guess I'd say between 100,000 or 200,00 polies.

Still though, beautiful ship; looks like it belongs in orbit above a planet, with maybe a few wraith ships nearby for a quick test...
 
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Amateur said:
Very, very nice :thumbsup: . Some nice shadows on the engines, gives a nice sense of depth.

Whats the final poly count, if I had to hazard a guess I'd say between 100,000 or 200,00 polies.

Still though, beautiful ship; looks like it belongs in orbit above a planet, with maybe a few wraith ships nearby for a quick test...
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She comes in at 284,782 polygons and do expect a new scene in the next few days.
 
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She comes in at 284,782 polygons and do expect a new scene in the next few days.
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Quite a strain, but for the quality is extremely good.

I know that it'd take me about an hour to render something like that with a good lighting set up; but then I use mental ray so that takes a while longer.
 
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Quite a strain, but for the quality is extremely good.

I know that it'd take me about an hour to render something like that with a good lighting set up; but then I use mental ray so that takes a while longer.
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Well it's not too bad. Just rendering the Tempest with its light setup (which is fairly complex) at 1280*1024 takes about 30ish minutes. Now when I get into scenes with 10-20 ships and multiple effect now that takes about 1-3 hours.
 
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Ohhh pretty... Question though, what are those 2 blue domes on the Excalibur? and the one on the next ship?
 
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Ohhh pretty... Question though, what are those 2 blue domes on the Excalibur? and the one on the next ship?
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They are part of the shield system.
 
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Awesome work RJB, nicely done. :)
 
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Oh wow, it looks even better textured. :p Ok, now I've got a technical-ish question for ya... Where you have the lighting on the words Tempest and USAF, is that from a surface glow? Or did you have to manually add a light (or rather 6 lights?) to the scene?
 
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She looks sweet. Can't wait for those space scenes. :thumbsup:
 
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Lord_Trekie said:
Oh wow, it looks even better textured. :p Ok, now I've got a technical-ish question for ya... Where you have the lighting on the words Tempest and USAF, is that from a surface glow? Or did you have to manually add a light (or rather 6 lights?) to the scene?
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All of that is done with lights with falloffs. The name Tempest has 2 on each side and the USAF has 2 on each side as well.

Basically since I'm building up a nice sized fleet I do want to do an animation sometime in the future so this is just setting up for that.
 
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Oh cool. :) Since I'm still not all that familiar with Lightwave, are you able to parent the lights to the ship so that when/if you move it around the lights follow? Or do you have to do all that yourself everytime the ship moves?
 
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Oh cool. :) Since I'm still not all that familiar with Lightwave, are you able to parent the lights to the ship so that when/if you move it around the lights follow? Or do you have to do all that yourself everytime the ship moves?
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Yes the lights can be parented to the main model or any model and you can also exclude other models from each light. :)
 
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Oh that's so awesome :eek: :cool:

Is the Daedalus in that shot rendered in or is it a screen cap?
 
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Oh that's so awesome :eek: :cool:

Is the Daedalus in that shot rendered in or is it a screen cap?
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They are all rendered in with some color balancing in photoshop.
 
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Awesome job RJB. :thumbsup:
 
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Oh my, those are so very good. Eye candy if there ever was any. Great job.
 
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May I ask what class that is as I haven't seen further than season 2 in SG-1?

By the way, awesome picture. You really are giving us new wallpapers here. :D :clap:
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It's an original design set in the stargate universe.

I'm just glad you guys are enjoying them. :)
 
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It's an original design set in the stargate universe.

I'm just glad you guys are enjoying them. :)
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Thanks for answer. :) As it's an original design, have you decided the name of it?
 
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