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today · 05-06-2008, 01:51 PM

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Had some free time and was playing around with the textures on coxxon's basestar and came up with this

today · 05-06-2008, 11:26 PM

The thumbnail doesn't look like much, so I've edited my post to show the entire image inline

...and yes I know it's probably too dark for most monitors, it was supposed to be moody and menacing

For contrast, here's the unaltered version in the same scene...

guddi · 05-07-2008, 09:24 AM

The texture is nice, but the starfield could use some rework and the scene itself looks a bit boring

spudmonkey · 05-07-2008, 10:18 AM

4096x3072?

today · 05-07-2008, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spudmonkey

4096x3072?

At lower resolutions the entire image was being eaten alive by pixelation after being compressed. This way it's still pixelated but there isn't any loss of detail. The only catch is that the resolution is probably about 3 or 4 hundred times what the model was designed to be rendered at....

spudmonkey · 05-07-2008, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by today

At lower resolutions the entire image was being eaten alive by pixelation after being compressed. This way it's still pixelated but there isn't any loss of detail. The only catch is that the resolution is probably about 3 or 4 hundred times what the model was designed to be rendered at....

Which 2d app were you using to compress the image or were you doing it in the 3d app? Pixelation should not be an issue for this image.

Edit: Also, what AA settings are you using when rendering? There are a number of tricks with AA that will allow fine detail to be retained in a lower resolution render

today · 05-07-2008, 02:13 PM

I was doing everything in the interest of saving time(this is the first instance where I've actually had enough free time to even open LW in months).. so to answer your questions in order: MSPaint (faster than playing with paintshop), and enhanced Low

I'll probably do a real render with this thing in a few weeks when I have more time

today · 05-07-2008, 02:22 PM

Using jasc's export/optimization tools I can pretty much avoid the pixelation entirely, it just takes slightly more time than I had available yesterday... so it was actually faster to render at 4 time the resolution than it was to compress it

In retrospect it probably wouldn't have killed me to run it through paintshop

**limdaepl** · 05-07-2008, 08:54 PM

Using MSPaint for resizing an image is like using a goose feather for writing. You don't do that anymore these days

L2K · 05-09-2008, 03:52 PM

you should rework the smoothing groups.

05-06-2008, 11:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
today SFM Guru Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 335	The thumbnail doesn't look like much, so I've edited my post to show the entire image inline ...and yes I know it's probably too dark for most monitors, it was supposed to be moody and menacing For contrast, here's the unaltered version in the same scene...
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05-07-2008, 10:18 AM	#4 (permalink)
spudmonkey SFM Obsessed Total Awards: 4 (more» ...) Realname: Nick Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: UK Posts: 2,149	4096x3072?
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05-07-2008, 02:13 PM	#7 (permalink)
today SFM Guru Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 335	I was doing everything in the interest of saving time(this is the first instance where I've actually had enough free time to even open LW in months).. so to answer your questions in order: MSPaint (faster than playing with paintshop), and enhanced Low I'll probably do a real render with this thing in a few weeks when I have more time
today SFM Guru Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 335

05-07-2008, 02:22 PM	#8 (permalink)
today SFM Guru Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 335	Using jasc's export/optimization tools I can pretty much avoid the pixelation entirely, it just takes slightly more time than I had available yesterday... so it was actually faster to render at 4 time the resolution than it was to compress it In retrospect it probably wouldn't have killed me to run it through paintshop
today SFM Guru Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 335	Last edited by today; 05-07-2008 at 02:28 PM. Reason: added reduced resolution version of first image

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limdaepl call me Roman Total Awards: 2 (more» ...) Realname: Roman Join Date: May 2006 Location: Karlsruhe, Germany Age: 23 Posts: 549	Using MSPaint for resizing an image is like using a goose feather for writing. You don't do that anymore these days
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05-07-2008, 09:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
guddi SFM Guru Realname: Hendrik Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cologne, Germany Age: 22 Posts: 272	The texture is nice, but the starfield could use some rework and the scene itself looks a bit boring

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