Here's a quick spaceship image: ship is differenced objects from moray,
flares by the colefax flares pluign and galaxy from the other moray plugin.

What do you think? I may post a version with reduced flares.

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Needs Detail^197342 and Gaudiness^1/197342

 -Shay

Sam Van Oort <sam### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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You've got.. let me count.. 5 flares too many. The *small* flares on the wingtips lok
good, but particularly with the searchlights
(whatever they are) you get the feeling the flares are just there to show off. This
may not have been your intention- the Flare
include _is_ pretty neat, I agree- but the extra bits aren't necessary.

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Yeah, the flares are a BIT overkill. (understatement)  This was mostly a
test scene for some of the Moray plugins I downloaded.  I'll post a better
version sooner or later.  The "searchlight" is actually supposed to be a
laser, but I'm too lazy to tinker with media.  If anyone has a shortcut, be
my guest.

Sam
"Sam Van Oort" <sam### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> Here's a quick spaceship image: ship is differenced objects from moray,
> flares by the colefax flares pluign and galaxy from the other moray
plugin.
>
> What do you think? I may post a version with reduced flares.
>
>
>

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"Sam Van Oort" <sam### [at] yahoocom> wrote in
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> The "searchlight" is actually supposed to be a laser, but I'm too lazy to
> tinker with media.  If anyone has a shortcut, be my guest.

Generic glowing sci-fi 'laser':

#macro BeamWeapon (Source, Bearing, Range, Radius, CenterColor, SideColor)
#local SourceRadius = Radius * 2;
sphere
{
    0,1
    pigment {rgbt 1}
    hollow

    interior
    {
        media
        {
            intervals 1
            method 3
            emission 1.75/Radius

            density
            {
                spherical
                color_map
                {
                    [0 color rgb <0,0,0>]
                    [.125 color SideColor]
                    [1 color CenterColor]
                }
            }
        }
        media
        {
            intervals 1
            method 3
            absorption .25/Radius

            density
            {
                cylindrical
                color_map
                {
                    [0 color rgb <0,0,0>]
                    [.125 color NegateVector (SideColor)]
                    [1 color NegateVector (CenterColor)]
                }
            }
        }
    }
    scale SourceRadius
    translate Source
}

cylinder
{
    <0,0,0> <0,1,0>, 1

    pigment {rgbt 1}
    hollow

    interior
    {
        media
        {
            intervals 1
            method 3
            emission 1.75/Radius

            density
            {
                cylindrical
                color_map
                {
                    [0 color rgb <0,0,0>]
                    [.125 color SideColor]
                    [1 color CenterColor]
                }
            }
        }

        media
        {
            intervals 1
            method 3
            absorption .275/Radius

            density
            {
                cylindrical
                color_map
                {
                    [0 color rgb <0,0,0>]
                    [.125 color NegateVector (SideColor)]
                    [1 color NegateVector (CenterColor*2)]
                }
            }
        }
    }
    rotate x*90
    scale <Radius, Radius, Range>
    rotate Bearing

    translate Source
}
#end

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che### [at] sympaticoca (Coridon Henshaw) wrote in
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>                     [.125 color NegateVector (SideColor)]
>                     [1 color NegateVector (CenterColor)]

And you'll also need this:

#macro NegateVector (V)
<abs(1-V.x), abs(1-V.y), abs(1-V.z)>
#end

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Thanks for code --  I'll use it soon. A new version of this img with focal
blur and less flare is rendering as I type. It is at the 4 hr mark now.  I
guess I've been rendering too long when I stay up past midnight to finish a
render. ;-).

Sam
Coridon Henshaw wrote in message ...
>che### [at] sympaticoca (Coridon Henshaw) wrote in
>news:Xns### [at] 204213191226:
>
>>                     [.125 color NegateVector (SideColor)]
>>                     [1 color NegateVector (CenterColor)]
>
>And you'll also need this:
>
>#macro NegateVector (V)
><abs(1-V.x), abs(1-V.y), abs(1-V.z)>
>#end

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Here's the new one.   The beam still needs stronger flares and some
tweaks... but that'll be version 3.0 (besides, I don't have the patience for
another render only to get weird effects from focal blur).

I know I should have set variance = 0...
Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 and
  aperture 2.0
  variance 0.01
  blur_samples = infinity
  confidence = ~1
......

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I wasn't too impressed with this scene the first time, but you have
completely turned it around. The scene has a great look to it now.

The ship just needs a little work. The texture looks too large for the scale
of the ship and the lines look a little too "CSG-ish"

 -Shay


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I think the focal blur is a bit too strong.

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