Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Jonas Silius

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1098738197_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1098738197_large.jpg)

Ok, now i know that i'm just suck on scetch drawing with mouse... But its the best that i can offer at this time...
Anyways, about the story:
While a Kurtan cargo ship guarded by dozens of small ships travels near the Mahdun planet, they are being assaulted by space pirates Shichils. When traveling the small guardian ships are surounding the big cargo ship, and when they are attacked they spread out and smash the opponent.
Thats for the moment.

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099514584_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099514584_large.jpg)

Ok this is the beginning of the Shichil asault ship modeling, it isnt a detail model and has no mesh smooth yeat... But still to come :)
Well i must confes that i havent had lots of time for the challenge and i dunno if i'm gonna make, but gonna try hard :)
Thats it for now, stay tuned!

[Kaksht]

Oh nad by the way, C&C are very wellcome:)

[kaajey]

I like that model. cool design.
May be some wires and cabin in the middle or stuff like that will improve realism.



See this:

[Kaksht]

I like that model. cool design.
May be some wires and cabin in the middle or stuff like that will improve realism.



See this:
Thanks kaajey, i'll maybe do some wires :)

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099755914_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099755914_large.jpg)

Ok, this is a small update of the Shichil asault ship. I've added just some more detail to the ship :)
Again, C&C are very welcome!

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099756199_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099756199_large.jpg)

More detail to the rear side of the ship. I thing that now i'm finished with this ship's modeling. Btw, those are actualy guns (the two PBC's ir front and rear) :)

C&C are very welcome!

[plaguelord]

I like the desing of the ship, very original.
keep updating :thumbsup:

[turbinea]

this is very nice design you showed here. Organic and technical at the same time. I like it. Maybe you should add some hint where is pilot's window.

[azazel]

I have to say that i like it unsmoothed, angular, better - only i'd change that boxy thing in the middle. Unsmoothed version looks more aggresive, dangerous than the smooth, round one.

[Kaksht]

plaguelord - thanks man, i'll updatew it as soon as possible :)

turbinea - thanks, the pilot window is going to be in the front bottom, in the bulging thing, that ones not a gun :)

azazel - hmm, i'll think about it, maybe i'll post the unsmoothed version later and you can decide then, which is better :) btw, that boxy thing in the end now isnt quite boxy at all :scream:

Thank you all for posts, the support is really helpful!

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099863120_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1099863120_large.jpg)

This is the unsmoothedned version of the ship :)

[greentek]

hi Jonas..
i agree with 'azazel'.. i also preffer unsmoothed version.. looks much more agressive.. though you may play with smoothing groups to get optimal result..
keep it up and cheers..

[Kaksht]

hi Jonas..
i agree with 'azazel'.. i also preffer unsmoothed version.. looks much more agressive.. though you may play with smoothing groups to get optimal result..
keep it up and cheers..Well yeah, i'm gonna do it with NURMS subdivision smoothing but with smooth result box unchecked, that result IMO is the best :)
Thanks!

[plaguelord]

I agree with the rest, try separete areas in Smoothing Groups, and you will get a great ship. Anyways now looks very good!

[Kaksht]

plaguelord
thanks man :)
well, as i said, gonna do it without smooth result, cause with smoothing groups it looks really strange, the edges are sharp, while the rest is smooth...

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1100458140_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1100458140_large.jpg)

Ok this is the final of modeling the Assault Ship.
Added the engine glow and the PBC is firing now :)
C&C are more then welcome!

[Squibbit]

with all the static thrusters everywhere it's so much fun to see manoeuvrable ones!

I like such details and the general design of the ship is cool, too , nice work !

:thumbsup:

[Kaksht]

Squibbit
Thanks man :)

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1100496478_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1100496478_large.jpg)

Ok, this is the Shichil Fighter that is quite fast and manevereable. It has 2 Radars at the back, and 4 landing/hover engines on the bottom.
C&C are very welcome :)
Thank You all for viewing my thread!

[essencedesign]

I like the ships that you are modeling...they are very original,,,and your scene is going to look very good indeed...perhaps adding some small details in the openings in the ships between the "armor" areas...they don't have to be much...just simple primitives cylinders for hydrolics...some drawn out polys...ect..give the light something to reflect off of and will add a nice touch of beleivablility...that is just a sugestion though..I am sure you have everything under control....cheers


one more thing ,,what app are you using..

[Kaksht]

essencedesign

Thanks man, i appreciate your estimation!
Thank you very much for the ideas, very helpful ideed, goona add some more details to the fighter :)
I'm using 3D Studio Max.

[kaajey]

I like both of your models.
Have you realized where you want to go with some idea or composition?


See this

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1100535559_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1100535559_large.jpg)

Mkay, this is a small update of the fighter, ive addded a little more detail just behind the cockpit.
Please C&C :)

[Kaksht]

kaajey thanks :)
About the idea, its gonna be something like the concept scetch in the first page of the thread, but its not the end idea, think that i'm gonna do some changes to the scetch.

[Sharga]

Don't know if you were going for this, but that top image looks like a smilie face with four eyes and the bottom one kinda reminds me of a slug with wings, or maybe I'm just off my rocker. Anyhow, I like em, they're fun.

[Kaksht]

Sharga
well i defenetlie wasnt going for the kinda look that youwe described :) Dunno, they arent looking for me like that.

[johnny3d]

You Are An Ecxelent Patternmaker And I Believe That You Have All That That A Designer De Pixar Has

[Kaksht]

johnny3d

Thanks man, i'm really flatterd :)

[leho]

cool designs. cant wait to see them textured

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1101763133_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1101763133_large.jpg)

Ok, its has been a while since my last update, ohh, so little time and still so much to do, all the other things at the moment...
Anyways, here is the Shichil Fighter engine lights final (at least i think so).
Now come on, dont be shy, tell me what You think about it :)
Need some critique...

[Kaksht]

leho

thanks, well the texturing is going to be hard and painfull, but still, gonna have to do it, later...

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1101838679_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1101838679_large.jpg)

Hi everyone, thatnks a lot for the support for all of You :)
Well, this is the model of Kurtan Fighter (the small dots in the "scetch") theres gonna be loads of them so ill keep em low poly.
Another update soon coming.

C&C are allways wellcome, help me here :)

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1101839670_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1101839670_large.jpg)

Ive added volume light to the engine, a PF to force the fireing of the Heavy PBC and some details to the ship itself.

C&C are very wellcome!
Good luck for everyone to!

[phoenixomen]

Keep up the great work! As somebody else has already mentioned earlier on, I like the originality of your ships, it's like they're from 3 different worlds. What I'm finding the hardest is to come up with designs that don't resemble anything that's already been done. Congratulations on your designs and modeling. I look forward to seeing how you texture them and start to compose them in the final scene.

Alex!!

[Kaksht]

phoenixomen
Thanks man, i'm really happy that You like those ships, dunno how i came up with de ideas, just started to model something, with little scetch help and there it is :)
Well, the texturing is going to be quite hard i think, now i'm modeling the last (big cargo one) ship of Kurtans and then its up to the texturing part.
Good luck to You to!

[Lelantos]

As somebody else has already mentioned earlier on, I like the originality of your ships, it's like they're from 3 different worlds.
Agree to that great models cant wait to see these textured

[Kaksht]

Lelantos
thanks, i really appreciate that you like my ships :)

[monsitj]

, original design! good work so far! some suggestion is , it's depend on how far your ship near or far from camera , i think some of your ship have to increase detail ,
good luck@!

[Kaksht]

monsitj
well yeah i know that the last kurtan figter has no detail, but its gonna be quite far from camera and it will be small, i think that youll see it when i get it all in one scene.
Thanks!

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102198778_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102198778_large.jpg)

Hi again, now this is the last ship that i'm going to model. This is the big one (in the size i mean). Now the fighters are always traveing with it in the mushroom like looking docks :)
Gonna tweak this one a little bit more, but not much.
Thanks for all of You that replied, that really keeps me up!
C&C are very wellcome.
Good luck to You all!

[Divaise]

hey your models are very strange they look like organic but it's cool keep that style :) gl

[d-tox]

good models man:thumbsup:

[overcontrast]

hmmmm those looks really cute...i like the tenderness in ur modeling... but its not really my taste... u got a lot of round shapes.. o btw i really liked those red ships of urs.. there really nice looking... well there u have it... c ya l8rz :thumbsup: keep up the great works

[Kaksht]

Divaise - thanks, well You see, the first two ships belong to Shichils and the last two - to Kurtans. Shichils are an agressive race, something like space pirats of some kind. And Kurtans are trading race, and they are being attacked by Shichils while bringing one of their products to a customer. So with the softness i try to achieve a non agressive look of the ships.

d-tox - thanks man!

overcontrast - thanks, i appreciate Your compliment about the Shichil fighter :)

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102252232_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102252232_large.jpg)

Hello.
So, ive added some volume light to represent the engine glows and placed a cone with glow in the middle of the engines to give the nice white glow. I will change the glows of the engines in all previous ship models, cause the spot light does it much better then an omni.
C&C are allways welcome!

[paladin6303]

looks like a lot of marine creature inspired work, interesting geometry, I like!

:thumbsup:

[Kaksht]

paladin6303 thanks :) actualie for the last ship i was more inspired by 5th element, if i understand Your post corectlie.

[arturro]

Hi there! Nice effort here! I like the different styles of your models. Do you want to go with the cartoony style of your final image, or rather serious and closer to the reality?

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102342324_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102342324_large.jpg)

Just a small update to show how the new engine flames and glows look like.
C&C are always welcome!

[Kaksht]

arturro thnank You for Your opinion, well i'm not gonna do a cartoon, going to do something more realistic, atliest try to do so :)

[LordApophis]

You have some really interesting designs for ships. If you were going for non cartoony, It seems that it would be crucial to texture em right.. Might i suggest a organic texture maybe with SSS for the rounded ships. Making the ships look alive

[arturro]

I think that it would b ebetter to use a gradient like glow. with a white color inside, blue or red or orange after it... to understand better what I mean, look on these Dimitris's entries:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=1789999#post1789999

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=178386&page=8&pp=15

for this purpose, such glow is much more realistic

[Kragh]

Thx for the comments in my thread.

I like you soft shapes/models, very organic feeling. great work, I agree with arturro, work on the glows.

Keep it coming

[Kaksht]

LordApophis thank You for reply :) Yes i'm gonna texture the last two ships organic way and the first two kinda metal of some kind or smth like that. Well i dunno what is an SSS so if You can, please explain what it means.

arturro well, ive looked at one tutorial to make that glow but couldnt find where i could place a gradient of that kind in the glow parameter pannel, can You help?
the tut ive used: http://www.secondreality.ch/tutorials/effects/rocketfume/flame.html

Kragh thanks man, if i figure out how to do the gradient glow then i'll definetlie do so :)

[arturro]

Hi there, you must add the lens effect glow through the video post! first add a camera to the video post(or a view to which you would like to add the glow, e.g. perspective) and then add lens glow effect, and the window there looks the same as the one on the tutorial. If you have any problems, then shoot me:)

[Kaksht]

arturro thanks man, that really helped, one question dough, is there a way to aply the glow and render it normal way (F10) and not every time trough video post?

[arturro]

As far as I know you have to do it through post... but I'm also just learning and don't know all the possibilities. Search glow in the help file... I will also do it soon ,because I also need some glow to my ships.

Good luck man!

[vampeta]

Hi Kaksht

Wow this booster flames look realy cool.
And i love your Models, they look pretty amazing:bounce: :bounce: .

Keep it up mate, and thanks 4 the great feedback in my quest.
I whish u the best.

See U

[Kaksht]

arturro mkay, gonna search the help file, anyways, thanks You very much for Your help! Good luck to You to!

[Kaksht]

vampeta thanks man :)

[overcontrast]

hey that exsost looks great, but i suggest u strach it a lit... and u might wanna use 2 objects to simulate ur rocket jet... keep up the good works mate... :arteest:

[Kaksht]

overcontrast thanks mate, i'll do that lated, cause now i'm trying to unwrap the UVW map...

[pand-aren]

o tu velnias kaip galejau nepastebet lietuvio :) shauniai einas zmogau sekmes
:thumbsup:

Gl & have fun

[Kaksht]

pand-aren swx, aciu zmogau :) heh, prikolnai atrodo kai cia lietuviskai skaitai.

[SnakeFarlow]

Hi. I like your models, they look great, I only have a doubt, are your workin whit different elements that aloud you to texturise separatly. If you don,t your should, I hopo to see some texture updates soon. Keep going that way, I am agree with when your say that is better to make your imagea realistic and not a cartoon.

Work hard and enjoy it.

[userBrian]

Interested to see how you texture your ships. Yes, what is SSS
texturing? I just tried my first ship texturing on my thread. Lots
to learn. And I gotta add engine glows soon...I'll be back.

my 3d entry (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=179803)

[Kaksht]

SnakeFarlow thanks. Well i'm unwraping them like one model, just dunno what you mean exactly :) Now the textures are going really slow, just dunno if i have the time to finish everything on time :shrug:
userBrian thanks man.

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102957115_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1102957115_large.jpg)

Mkay now, atlast ive managed to unwrap the legs of the ship, damn thats hard work (about 5 hours for every leg)... Now for the "head" :) and zen ze painzing.

Thanks guys for all the feedback! :)

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1103445690_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1103445690_large.jpg)

Mkay, so ive managed to texture this ship, and now i just need to know what You think about it :)
Theres a color, bump, specular, diffusion and luminosity maps here.
I need C&C, please! :)

P.S. This is the first time i'm texturing something...

[vrhead]

good model man... its good you have a uv map for the ship but also what will help you out texturing is some procedural textures... hmm not sure what they call em in maya or max i think shaders... what ever it is look in to gettin some layers to your texture... but great start man keep it up

[monsitj]

hi jonas,
good lob so far! if u have time , try wings3d , it's uv map feature is very effecient! at least it works with me! good luck ! wait for your update

[Kaksht]

vrhead thanks, dunno about the shaders, maybe if there will be some time, but for now, there isnt spare time...

monsitj thanks man, maybe i'll try wings3d later :arteest:

[EthanReitz]

cool ship - looking very agressive in attack form - kind of reminds me of an attacking crab. just an idea: have you thought of giving it a red texture? good luck with the uvw mapping :)

[Kaksht]

ereitz hey, now Your post kinda gave me a smile, cause at first ive made the base color red and then changed it :) Ok, gonna change it tomorow and see how it looks, now its time for a good sleep, cya.

[Eagle_e7]

Hi Kaksht,

You're doing a great job here! I like your ship designs. For your ship texture I would recommend maybe adding some kind of noise to the blue parts to make it look less solid, looks good so far though! :)

Keep it up! :thumbsup:

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1103534203_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1103534203_large.jpg)

Mkay, now this is the render with red as base color :)
Tell me which to leave, the red or the green (of some kind) :)

C&C are allways welcome ;)

[Kaksht]

Eagle_e7 thanks man :) mkay, gonna try to do that.

[arturro]

I like it, but I think that the color of the ships should be a little bit darker and with lower saturation. This consideres both color versions. I don't know which is better, I like both:)

[Kaksht]

arturro thanks, ive darkened the diffusion map to make the color a bit darker and also made the spec level map darker, now imo it looks quite alright :) Gonna post it later.

[userBrian]

I'm new to image texturing a whole ship, this challenge is my first attempt.
Looks like you might try texturing the whole ship more rustically.

my 3d entry (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=179803)

[Aethyrprime]

Interesting. I am color blind but it seems kinda hard to tell the surface on all that. Anyway, modeling is looking good. Keep it up. Have a happy new year!

[Kaksht]

Hello i'm back after the holidays :) And now lets get back to work.

userBrian well, dunno about the rust, doesnt seem to be logical that ships that have never been in an environment that has oxygen would rust.

||) |V| |^| thanks, gonna try to fix the surface problem, or maybe leave it like it is, dunno, if there will be enough time.

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105049413_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105049413_large.jpg)

Hi all!
Thank You all for the feedback and great C&C :)
Ok, now hope to finish this on time, so this is still wip shichil fighter textures, and now its time to get soe sleep, gonna finish it tomorow in the morning.

Tell me what You think about it.
See ya!

[arturro]

nice idea for the texture, but please change this white color:) I think that some very dark red could work, and I would make this thin part between front and back part also the same very dark red. Waiting for more:)

[Aethyrprime]

I find myself agreeing with arturro alot. A dark color would work better where the white is. It would make this look more menacing. Keep at it.

[Kaksht]

Artur & ||) |V| |^| yes, i thought that the white color doesnt apply here much :) heh gonna change it...

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105112377_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105112377_large.jpg)

Hi again!
Mkay, this is what i think finished textures of the ship, but tell if You think theres something wrong, ok :)

Maps used: Color, Diffusion, Reflect, Spec. Level and Bump.
The reflection map is a default falloff map with fresnel type.

[PeterSanitra]

wHAt!!!, COLOR, SPEC, BUMP, REF??!! WHERE???

I CAN DO THE SAME JUST WITH COLOR!

And why is your mesh not smooth?? why those faces???

[Kaksht]

Darkone2652 first of all, You dont have to yell that much, this is my first time i ever textured something. And second, the maps arent so obcious cause the textures arent detailed enough (not enough time). The ship has turbosmooth applied but with the smoot result unchecked to give it angrier look. And i'm happy for You if You can do all those things just with a color map, esspecialie the spec level...

[Matroskin]

Hi Silius,
interesting sport-like design.
Speaking about textures: I suggest that you add more detail. I mean some dirt, seams in a "skin" ect.
Actually seams could be added with bumps. Darker zones could be also added on frontal edges of wings as they "suffer" more from air preassure/friction during the flight.
And overall bumping is really better to make more strong (even if is not jet much detailed)
But generally I find the ship having really strong feeling of a speed :)
wish you good working

my Space Opera page>> (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?postid=1779103#post1779103)

[Matroskin]

Sorry
I've made a mistake in your nik-name, Kaksht...

[Kaksht]

Deryk thanks man, thats really helpfull, gonna fix it right after i eat my breakfast :) Really helpfull adwise, thanks.

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105172478_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105172478_large.jpg)

Mkay, this is the Kurtan fighter textured. The textures arent too high quality, cause its a very small ship, trust me :)
Ok, i've used a mask material in which i've plased two brazil wax shaders to give it a nice SSS. Just painted the mask to give this kind of look. Ohh and the yeallow pats have also a dark green/yeallow luminosity color.
C&C please.

[Aethyrprime]

Nice light effect on the back. I understand lower texture quality due to size / distance from the camera. You gotta do what you can to make the impact you need. Keep at it!

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105181515_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105181515_large.jpg)

Mkay, added some "dirt" so it would have some color variations :)
C&C please.

[Kaksht]

||) |V| |^| (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=101041) thanks mate :)

[Matroskin]

Now ship looks better with irregularities.
Maybe you can make those lunchers on the back (lunchers, rigth?) more dark (even black).
But I have doubts that ship gets more angry look with faces than when it smoothed. I recomend to smooth your ship - beleive me it will give better result!

[Kaksht]

Deryk once again thanks :) well, actualie these on the back are radars, not lauchers, so imho they dont need no darkening. And about the smooth result, gonna do a render on that, but after i'm done with the shichil cargo ship textures...

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105226041_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105226041_large.jpg)

Hi again :)
This is the textured Kurtan Cargo ship.
The textures are brazil wax, and are placed on the model by adding a blend material.
Hope You like it.

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105273004_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105273004_large.jpg)

Hi all!
I've changed the glows for the engines and added a diferent laser glow, and some small changes to the textures.
Hope You like it :)

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105366478_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105366478_large.jpg)

Hello everybody! :)
This is the Muhdan planet and here is the whole mess is going to be.
Man this was a though one (texturing this planet). Ive used satelite photos as reference images. The texture size is 8000x8000 px D: And my computer almost crashed down durin rendering of this one when ive rendered it in full rezolution (my pc is an old bastard: 850Mhz Athlon with 512Mb of SDRam...)
Anyways, tell me what You think about it :) C&C is what i need!

[arturro]

nice tests.
1. The planet texture looks really good. Giid job. But don't forget to add atmosphere and some glow behind the planet.
2. laser glow should be very, very thin. And generaly the laser shot itself should be a bit thinner.
3. The glow in the engines should be less transparent, and a bit longer(in compersion with the modelled core of the glow)

hope it helps a bit:)

[Kaksht]

Artur thanks man, Your coments are always helpfull :) Yes the planet is going to receive its glow, and thanks very much for the crit about laser and engine glows, its really helpfull :)

[Matroskin]

Hi,
so, ships are getting more and more original in design!
That Cargo and Assalut ones are really someth. off-terrain...
I like planet color as in general red-green rithm is really not bad.

Waiting for your composition assembly...

my Space Opera page>> (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/grandspaceopera/view_entries.php?challenger=5227)

[Kaksht]

Deryk thanks man :) have been studying these last days to pass my exam, and now gonna be working as strong as i can :bounce: think that gonna post a planet update with atmosphere this evening.

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105548565_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105548565_large.jpg)

Hello everybody!
Mkay, this is the muhdan planet with some atmosphere added (many thanks for vampeta for material) :)
Hope You like it!

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105657525_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105657525_large.jpg)

Hello everyone!
Here is a composition test, that ive done today, its not finished so please tell me what You think about it ;)
I need suggestions and advises.

P.S. Ive applied a diferent texture to the Muhdan planet cause otherwise max crashes down...

[arturro]

More green ships closer to the camera. A bit more small in the background(but I think you can copy and paste and resize them in post).

[Kaksht]

Artur yes thanks You :) i also thought that i might i add an explosion or smth cause there gonna be some lasers fireing.

[vampeta]

Yeah that´s a great Image.

I love your ships, and your composition / yust great.

If you like...here is some possible help.

:: Make the the sphere with the transparent Material smaller (maybe i gife you some wrong coordinates ;-) ) at the moment it looks a bit like a sphere in a glas-sphere.. if you make it just a few units larger then the Planetsphere you get the desired effekt.

:: Place the main light far behind the planet and more to the left. The Atmosphere-Material will more look like an real Atmosphere. (That´s the problem with this Material, it looks great when it´s lightend from behind.

:: I love your previus Planet-texture more. try to scale it down and repeat it more. (my planet-texture is just 1500x1500 pixel but i repeated it more.) Remember you need a end resolution at 3620x2200 pixel, your planet takes 30% from the whole Image, i think 2000x2000 pixel is more than enough.

I hope it helps you a bit!
Good luck & Hurry up! I whish you the best!

Alex

http://www.kira-network.com/pics/help.jpg

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105703768_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105703768_large.jpg)

Hello again!
Ok, ive resized the planet texture to 4096x4096 and now max doesnt crash down :D Wipie! (thanks for the advise to azazel and vampeta).
Made the planet atmosphere thniner (thnx to vampeta)
Added more ships, so PLEASE tell me what You think cause in a couple of hours i'm going to go render the scene at my friends house...

[Kaksht]

vampeta thanks man, thank You very much :) Your advises helped alot :bounce:
ok, going to do the lighting now... cya

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105713915_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105713915_large.jpg)

Ok, this is the lighting setup that ive done, think that gonna light a little bit the Kurtan Fighter in upper left side of the image. This is very low quality just to see the how everything looks, no textures are applied, just default gray materials.

Ok, gotta run render everything, cya!

P.S. Many thanks to vampeta for explaining how light setup should look ;)

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105795956_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105795956_large.jpg)

Hello again :)
Ok, thanks to my friends new PC ive rendered evertthing last evening :D
But had to do it in 7 layers dough...
Anyways, now its time to do some post effects.
See yall!

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105902764_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105902764_large.jpg)

Hello everyone!

The Story of todays bad things...

Man i had one crazy day today! First of all, when i woke up i thought that gonna finish the image and upload and done, BUT my hdd was making these strange sounds (the ones that it makes when a bad cluster is inside) :/ well, i couldnt load my windows and i couldnt get any info from my hard drive :/ so i had almost none hope to finish this challange, but then i remembered that i have a cd with all my images and alpha channels :D hey hey, rushed to my neighboors and now i'm almost done with the image :D

End of story.

Ok now about the image, ive added a starfield, the main sun, some lasers, bit more glow to the planet and thats for now. Still gona add more lasers from the Kurtan fighters(small green ships) and a grainy effect to make it look like a photo.

Seeya and god luck to You all!

[Kaksht]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105907606_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/challenge/entries/7/4491/4491_1105907606_large.jpg)

Whipie!!! The final image, atlast!!! :D
Ohh man these were 3 long and very fun months :)
Right, now first of all i want to thank all of You that suported me trough this challange. Special thanks to arturro, azazel, Deryk and vampeta!
Very big thanks to the whole community for this amazing challange! Ive learned so much in these 3 months that i couldnt learn in 1,5 years.
Well, i cant say that i'm to happy of my image, it could look better (as we all say), but the time has ended.
Btw, the software that i forgot to mention is 3D Studio Max & Adobe Photoshop.
But this was my first challange and the first time that ive done something BIG like this! So dont judge me to cruel ;)
Mkay, now for the uploading to the ftp...

You can all post what You think of this image.

Thanks You all again VERY much and see You all in the next challange!

[arturro]

Congratulations my friend! Good to see you among the winners! Because if you finished it, you certainly are a winner. You won new experience and got new skills. From the challenge to challenge you will be better and better:) I wish you best and let the force be with you:)

[vampeta]

Hi friend,

That image is fantastic and i love it! :bounce:

I agree with arturro YOU ARE A WINNER! there are so many people here who did not finished the job. But you dit it! Congratulations!

100% Vote by me is 4 sure ;)

Hope to see u often here.
I whish u good luck!

[Kaksht]

Artur
Thanks Friend, again for the help in this quest, may the fork, opps... the force be with You to :)
Alexander Thank You Friend, once again, thank You for the feedback and all the help in this challenge!
You can have no doubt about my vote ;)
Wish You the very best!

It has been a wonderful challenge :cool:

[Matroskin]

Oh I see you've finished!
Poor cargo ship :( C'est la vie...
Isn't it a great feeling after succseeding with final image?!
Especialy when a couple of month passed...
My first experience in I'd say "public coop".
Really great time!
Wish you success!

P.S.: and also my first exp in voting the works :)

[Kaksht]

Deryk heh, yeap, that poor ship :) but who is going to win, no one knows :)
Yes its very great feeling when submiting the final image, souch a relief :bounce:
Well, now where gonna wait for the next challenge, its not far away ya know :buttrock:
Cya Volodymyr!

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