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Because I like this thing too much...And I found new things to do with it About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Because I like this thing too much...And I found new things to do with it // Image Gallery 1  |   Order by default Post by Weevil // Oct 16, 2008, 8:33am Weevil Total Posts: 534 Get a cuppa lads and ladies...this is long For those of you who saw my last image, you are probably wondering why I've moved on without so much as a 'by your leave' and I would have. But in this case I didn't save the scene. Presumably because I usually shut down TS and either press 'no or yes' and I had deleted some stuff to make that scene. So if I have the energy I may re-do it. Now. While we're on the subject of shutting down Truespace, it's not something big enough to start a help topic about but I'm just cruios as to why Truespace shows the: 'we are sorry but truesapce has to close' error message But it does it AFTER I close Truespace. It doesn't affect any saves or make truespace faulty in any other way. But it's been doing it almost every time I shut down for the past week and I'm finding it rather odd. If anybody has any ideas as to what could be causing it, would be appreciated. Onto the gist of this subject. I've rendered my Hornet into another set of images. Like last time it is the same background repeated. In fact it's the same image over and over again. Just with different effects. Before I show you these. I've retextured it. Here we are: http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/desert1.jpg http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/desert2.jpg http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/desert3.jpg I shall probably be making a new paint scheme every so often...even if it is fictional. Just to keep it fresh (despite the fact I SHOULD be making a tutorial on how to model a Phantom). So. Picture one. The all out glamour. I'm starting to use a lot more post render editing in Paint shop pro now but I'm not entirely fond of it. Maybe because I'm not used to it http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/hornetsinthedesert.jpg This was fairly simple to edit. My render was at a different angle to the back plate so I moved and scaled the Hornets. In this case I rendered the Hornets seperate as a .png so that background plate wouldn't show up giving me more manouverability. The hard part with this was editing the colours of the Hornets, and the background to appear slightly more real. But that was a case of editing the contrast and saturation. Then I merged the two layers and duplicated them. And on the top layer added gaussian blur and rubbed out the layer itself to make the depth cue effect, I feel I have more control over it that way Next up is a trick I picked out of one of my dads photography magazines. Colour popping. Everything is monotone except certain bits. The effects are similar to the ones in the film 'Sin city'. http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/colourpopping1.jpg http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/colourpopping2.jpg For more mood and effect you can go however far you want. Granted this image may not be the best choice and considering I only just decided to add the jet exhaust the second one stands out a tad more. I made these effects after I did the first picture, I completely (or half) unsaturated the background plate, and copied the Hornets, then did the same to one of the copys and made sure the unsaturated version was on top. I then erased the parts I wanted to come out in colour to reveal the unsaturated layer below, like so. Then, I merged it all, and added the guassian layer like before http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/colourpoppinganddepthcue.jpg Another image style that I've been seeing a lot recently is the 'fake video camera'. Which. Is simply a vetor drawing of the basic features of a video camera. I prefer not to include the numbers as I can't think of a digicam hud off the top of my head. And also if you get it wrong it can look rather shoddy. http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/digitalcamera1.jpg http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/digitalcamera2.jpg The final one is probably not best shown with this picture. But the theory's there none the less. I don't know the official name...so let's called it a flat packed background. And this is the one instance where those tacky paintshop picture frames come in useful. You'll need to perspective 'correct' the background plate so it looks like it flattens, after you apply the picture frame, so it goes flat. Then you'll need to drop shadow the layer above to a fairly high height (if there is not a shadow already there) I also reccomend you go for a gradiented or plain white background and add another small shadow on the background plate itself to make it look like an actual object http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i192/Weasle_01/flatframe.jpg I really only intend to either use the colour popped image. Or the plain image though...these are just techniques I've picked up from photo magazines I've seen lying around Post by hultek43 // Oct 16, 2008, 10:33am hultek43 Total Posts: 234 Nice planes, thanks for sharing them and your techniques. One thing, shouldn't the arresting gear hook be painted yellow and black? Post by Weevil // Oct 16, 2008, 1:03pm Weevil Total Posts: 534 Last I had a look...they were black and white...but then I'm old school so you're probably right. Thanks for letting me know...and thanks for the comments Post by hultek43 // Oct 16, 2008, 1:14pm hultek43 Total Posts: 234 It was quite a while ago when I saw them on F-14's..seems as though they were yellow and black. Perhaps there is more than one approved paint scheme depending on mission.

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