The Endless Pluto Station Thread

[tobian]

Haha that had better be a really good cloak.. about half of this station is dedicated to sensors.. that's what's housed in all those peripheral modules, radiating round the main ring, and there's the high defenition gama telescope, I have yet to detail hehe (note to self - install lots of cloak detecting sensors)

It is Ouroboros a snake which devours it's own tail.. then again, it may finish, but will it be finished before 2012!?! Maybe by then they'll have computers with enough memory and CPU speed as standard, to render it hehe.

Thanks guys, and oh, I tweaked that last pic, so it's got a little more orange glow, and I baked out the orange map out some more, so it's a smidge less grainy, or well, enough before I go to bed

[Dannage]

Ha.. I've discovered Tobians secret, as to why the model shots look so realistic and the project is taking so long.

Quite clearly the man is building this in real life. Yes... That will be it.

I hope NASA doesn't get the military to shoot your baby down.

[JeffrySG]

Originally Posted by tobian

Hehe thanks Ozylot

Oh and for all your information... this is what happens to people who ask for full station renders!

That looks frackin' sweet man!!! love that particle beam... very very slick!

Originally Posted by tobian

My Pluto station folder, is about 4.5 gig

holy cr*p!

[homerpalooza67]

Oh yes, it is that good. A standard cloak uses a plasma-powerd tachyon particle grid to bend optical energy around the subject being cloaked. Tachyons have the bonus of being very capable for jamming sensors. with a few minor tweaks, the tachyon field is used to emit an anti-detection signature to sensors, thus "fooling" the sensors and therefore blinding the puruer both optically as well as electronically.

My cloak is LOT better than all that (btw, i just made all of that stuff up)

[Dannage]

*unplugs homerpalooza's cloaking device* Sorry I need the plug socket for my strip unsightly leg hair wax remover. Hope you weren't using that....

[Darkstone]

Originally Posted by Freak

^ you read them all in one go?

Well... with regular breaks. A man's got to eat...

I have a fetish thing for WiP images.

[homerpalooza67]

D'oh!

[Melak]

Niiice! Your giving us way too few renders, full station or not

I really like that phaser, I was able to create something very similar, the major difference is the map that you used...a fractal noise?

[tobian]

Originally Posted by Dannage

*unplugs homerpalooza's cloaking device* Sorry I need the plug socket for my strip unsightly leg hair wax remover. Hope you weren't using that....

LOL!

Not that I encourage it on my thread, homerpalooza67, your technobabble could use a little *ahem* work

I'm only really doing renders when something merits it, or if I have something new to show... spending 2 days cleaning the mesh, so it's got 3000 polygons, but looks exactly the shade, isn't worth rendering haha. I also onlreay really render something when it's got to a 360 degree model - not just a few planes, with big holes haha While they are test renders, I often do them in the style of a full render.

Glad you enjoyed my WIP Darkstone. Just a shame the forum died last year, or there'd be an even longer thread to read I hope you can see a lot of progress since the first post!

The beam is a bit of a cheat haha. it's actually a subdivision flat tube (to fit the emitter) which (oddly) is a dark burnt orange, and set to about 1000% brightness, then with a texture in the transparency chanel (crumple, which inverted, looks cloudy) and one for falloff. The rest is just using that initial colour and texture and multiply overlaying it with glows in photoshop I could show you, but it's one of those 'mess about' things, that I'll probably not do the same way twice

[homerpalooza67]

sometimes im really good at technobabble, but i was falling asleep at my computer and i didn't have time to do it properly. i can come up with a better technobabble if you wish