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March 16th, 2014, 01:21 PM
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Shuttle Pilot
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My other car's a Battlestar
Very, very simple image using front projection in Lightwave.
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March 16th, 2014, 01:36 PM
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Great Wise Guru
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Cool...
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March 16th, 2014, 01:38 PM
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Colonial Story Teller
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Very cool indeed!
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March 16th, 2014, 04:42 PM
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Well now, I bet there'd be no trouble navigating the snow storms in one of those!
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March 17th, 2014, 12:29 AM
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
THAT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!
I wish I were riding in it right now!!!
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March 17th, 2014, 02:18 AM
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Looks like it's on the Moon.
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March 17th, 2014, 02:28 AM
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Shuttle Pilot
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Quote:
Originally Posted by Senmut
Looks like it's on the Moon.
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Thanks guys and it is a picture of the moon that has been tweaked.
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March 17th, 2014, 06:42 AM
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Nice... Looks good.
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March 17th, 2014, 03:14 PM
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
cool.. great to see the LandRAM getting in on some action..
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March 17th, 2014, 05:20 PM
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Strike Leader
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tenement
Thanks guys and it is a picture of the moon that has been tweaked.
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Ah. Hiding all the ruins left by the original Kobollian settlers, right?
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March 18th, 2014, 09:03 AM
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Shuttle Pilot
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
what was "front projected? the background?
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March 18th, 2014, 02:43 PM
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Shuttle Pilot
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Quote:
Originally Posted by borjis
what was "front projected? the background?
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The planet surface is a flat plane in Lightwave with the image of the moon surface is projected onto it via the surface editor. I find that to make it work you have try and match the height of the virtual camera to the real camera's position so that the perspective works for the final rendered image. The moon is relatively easy to match lighting as the source lighting (The Sun) usually fairly harsh and from one angle with quite hard shadows. I use one light, usually a spotlight and radiosity for fill. You have to play around with diffusion settings of the plane surface and play with lighting levels but you can get quite effective results very quickly. One of the things I've found to help with the lighting is to use large Reflectors with the image or similar image to the final image applied as a texture and it gives natural fill to the model in the frame. Hope this helps.
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March 21st, 2014, 08:05 AM
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Very cool!
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March 21st, 2014, 04:34 PM
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Re: My other car's a Battlestar
Looks good. Done very well. I love Lightwave.
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