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In the 2nd picture, the image in the background is too low quality, I would lose it or find a better one.
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I think you can go up to 2k image size.
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I think it will be much easier than Photoshop.
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I have some more things of interest to add to the far wall. I hope to have that soon, as I am working on it now.
Halfloaf I have used the picture that you sent. I think it looks good and will keep it from now, at least till I make one. That's for the confindence I can do it!!
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The sad part is I have absolutely no idea how to improve that. Maybe try taking the blur out of the backdrop. If it's a plane with the image loaded into the color field, then there is a filter selection near the filename textbox. If you turn the filter off, it should make the image crisp. Not sure that will do the trick though. I'll google some space images and see if I can come up with anything else that might help.
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One of my hobbies is astronomy and sadly it is hard to imitate nature when it comes to gas clouds in space, they almost always look flat unless someone takes the time to actually model one and texture it , or replicate it with dynamics.
Perhaps making a simple star field woudl serve this image better.
I do like the render tom, My personal preference is for the whiter settings in the shader / texture, which ever you adjusted, but the masses appear to like the darker better, so By all means continue as is..
Aside it doesn't detract from your work at all by any means, so no fear there mate.
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Agreed on the gas cloud G-Man. The image I posted was also waaay too low resolution. If you look at the original Star Wars movies you'll notice very little stars on the background plates. You need something sharper and with less stars. Have you considered wrapping your scene in a star field box of particles?Originally posted by legendofzombi
I believe its the nebular gas that is causing it to look flat,
One of my hobbies is astronomy and sadly it is hard to imitate nature when it comes to gas clouds in space, they almost always look flat unless someone takes the time to actually model one and texture it , or replicate it with dynamics.
Perhaps making a simple star field woudl serve this image better.
I do like the render tom, My personal preference is for the whiter settings in the shader / texture, which ever you adjusted, but the masses appear to like the darker better, so By all means continue as is..
Aside it doesn't detract from your work at all by any means, so no fear there mate.
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I think an image will still work, you just need to work on light bleed and getting the star numbers right as well as the sharpness of the image. Get a still frame from Star Wars and use that as reference.
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I do appreciate your comments and thoughts on the background. Let me know what you think.
Hope for you all a good day, and time with Maya!! ;-)
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16-01-2010
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Looking good, no comments as you have anought guys helping you.............dave
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i like the bg, the paint effects are much better.
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Got woke up by an earthquake. Nice way to wake up!! ;-)
Dave, thank you very much for looking at my project. I am trying very hard. But that is only because I love it so!! Yes, I have people that are kind and helping me.
Hammer, I am rendering now a updated version now. Our minds must have thought alike. I had intended on putting a light force field around the entrance to the landing bay. I had added it, as my thoughts were like yours and that a distinguishing line between the dark of the landing bay and the dark of space would be of a help.
I should have an update soon, I hope. But now it is 4:30am and I need my coffee and smokes to become human.
Have a very good day guys!!!
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16-01-2010
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I have taken a little more time with this update, and think I kind of like it for now, but still have some modeling to do and I will spend more time on it soon.
Hammer, I am very glad you suggested the yellow and black stripes. I proably would not have thought of that! I had stopped the render I was doing and added them. Nice touch! Thanks!!!
Also, my girlfriend saw the information pads I have by the sliding doors in the bay and said they looked 'Hokey', a very old term for looks cheap. I will work on that and maybe make a hand recognition type pad. Will work to make it right!!
If anyone is curious. I had found a nice .jpg from the Hubble Telescope and it was larger than 2000 X 2000. I took that in HDR Shop and under IMAGE I select EFFECTS and at the bottom is DXC9000 Curve. Don't have a clue how it works. But in a tutorial I had done I learned of it. Won't make a true HDR, but it will certainly improve the .jpg very much in color depth and then you can save it as a HDR, I use a floating point .tif.
Once again, I do appreciate your thoughts!!
Original Render Link (1200 X 900):
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16-01-2010
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The scene is looking a little dark may be some landing lights on the floor (not to bright), lights on the floor leading to the exits (differant color?). Some white markings on the floor for storage with markings on the wall some thing like (section 138 storage 1A)............dave
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