Is it only red in battle situations? I’d imagine the deck crews would need brighter light when trying to assess damage and repair ships.
What I could imagine would be that ther could be a spot light over the ships, which i had earlier. But I don’t think I will have that shot in my animation. What I might do is have a subtle overheard light just to answer those questions.
I am rendering a 20 second clip from inside the dock. It has been going for a few days so hopefully it does render completely. Wish me luck here in the last couple hours of render time. I will post the results as soon as I can.
Fingers crossed.
Here is the test shot that I created. It took over two days to render. Let me know what you think. I have post to do to make the exhaust glow and need a particle system to show the exhaust movement. But that can wait til I get the animation shots in order.
Looks nice, but a bit dark. Might be hard to follow.
Does this look better?
Yup.
Baltar
OK, I am going to restart the animation. Should be ready in a day or two.
So, is that lower bay the ship disappeared into a sort of airlock, or is there an energy field of some sort to prevent depressurization?
I had not thought I would show that effect yet. I was going to go with a Star Wars invisible energy field at the entrance of the bay. Now I might try something new because of what you said. I will let you know.
Changed the cockpit configuration and color scheme. Also using a new renderer for Blender called Cycles.
Looks sharp.
Thanks, I am going to be updating my other models to this more photo-realistic so that in the future I can do the animation this way.
Do you want to do that yet? Render time and all.
When I get closer to actually having some scenes put together, we will see. What I can also do is have it not make as many passes. It would not be as sharp, but if the flow of the animation worked, then just have the time set aside to render the good stuff.
this is the updated scout with a blue scheme. It was 500 passes and done in 15 minutes. the other was 1000 passes. So I think it would be good for a preliminary animation.
I now have finished the fleet for the most part. Gold Squad bombers to go with Red Squad fighters and Blue Squad Recon squad. Let me know what you think.
I took away some of the cheese from this carrier starship. What do you think of this update?
1000 passes in under 14 minutes.