Topic: Another Atolm work nearly done..

[atheorhaven]

Well, I had a little bit of time tonight after dinner to try and straighten out my copy of 3dsMax r3 on my texturing machine.  I've had a problem with it for a long time when it simply came to rendering.  I could work with it, but renders came off.. odd.

Well, since I'd replaced the video card in it a few months back, I decided to play with settings tonight, and finally got things to where they needed to be.  Then I worked on something that Atolm did up for me at my request.  A Vorlon battleship for the B5FC project.

It'd been on hold while I tried to fix two white areas and work and everything else took precedence.  Tonight, I decided to finish it, and tomorrow I'm going to game test it.  But, at any rate, here's the release shot for Atolm's Vorlon Battleship.


Again, I'll try to get this out tomorrow, and now that I finally have Max running perfectly on the texturing machine, I may get projects completed sooner.  My wife likes to use her system too much.  

[Azel]

SWEET!!!!

Thanks man!!!
hey Alec I have some Gorn in the next thread that require your talents...if you are not too busy
Thanks again  

[atheorhaven]

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SWEET!!!!

Thanks man!!!
hey Alec I have some Gorn in the next thread that require your talents...if you are not too busy
Thanks again

I saw them.. am I busy?  yes.. am I too busy?  Probably not.  

It may take a bit of time, but I should be able to do these for you..

[Mackie]

goood work as usual guys  

[James Formo]

Yes the squid ship, er um I mean Vorlorn is very nice. Just teasing ya with the squid bit.

[starforce2]

what's he doing for them? Lightmaps?

The vorlon looks great. Didn't realise they were supposed to be that green, but whatever turns you on.

[Reverend]

That's wild- wished I would have watched more Babylon 5 instead of working, so I'd know the significance of a Vorlon ship, save that this models rocks:)  

[atheorhaven]

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goood work as usual guys

Thanks Mackie..

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 Yes the squid ship, er um I mean Vorlorn is very nice. Just teasing ya with the squid bit.

heheheh.. I dunno, I think it looks kinda squidly, but definitely Vorlony.  As I was doing this, it developed more of a personality.  

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what's he doing for them? Lightmaps?

Atolm supplied the mesh, I did all the texturing on this one...

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 The vorlon looks great. Didn't realise they were supposed to be that green, but whatever turns you on.

If you see the show, they're all slightly different in color and shape and size and such because they're organic (ie: grown) ships that are at least partially (if more on a subconcious level) sentient.

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That's wild- wished I would have watched more Babylon 5 instead of working, so I'd know the significance of a Vorlon ship, save that this models rocks:)  

The Vorlons and Shadows are two of the "Big Players" left in the galaxy when the show reachs the third season.  Both are old races, both have had lots of time to develop lots of tech and make everyone nervous when they move around.

The Vorlons use living grown ships that can wipe out fleets of Younger Races ships with little or no threat of damage.  They usually don't, but could.  The Younger Races are more "ants in the playground" except.. well, don't want to give too much away, but let's say that there is a time and place when they tend to settle their attentions on the Younger Races.

Their adversaries, the Shadows, are older than the Vorlons, and use a living being as the CPU for their bigger ships.  Both forces fleets you don't want to meet.  Both have planetkillers in their fleets that can literally rip a world to pieces.  Needless to say, even their smaller ships are more than a handful for any other race.  This is supposed to be a bigger one of their ships..

[starforce2]

I watched B5 till the end (well, till they bumped it to cable anyways) and vorlon ships are yellowish, not romulan green..  

[manitoba]

from what i remember they were more yellowishy brown. ecspecially KOSH'S ship. but it still looks great hehe gotta have it for the rest of my B5 ships.  

[Reverend]

Right-o.. thaks for the heads-up Atheorhaven.. found some episodes of Bab5 on filesharing programs; getting them is the program- no reason to be sharing roundablout 10,000 music and video files, but no one wants to share... even though the progrma is free, and service is free. Sheesh. Anyhow- thanks again- good work.  

[atheorhaven]

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I watched B5 till the end (well, till they bumped it to cable anyways) and vorlon ships are yellowish, not romulan green..  

Hate to say this.. but the Vorlon ships shown were many varied colours.  During the scenes during the Vorlon/Shadow battles in the Shadow War where they showed the Vorlon fleet, there were yellowish ships, greenish ships, reddish ships, all kinds of colors.  And look at Ulkesh's transport.. it was reddish.  *And* these are organic ships, living ships.  Just as most people are not identical, the Vorlon ships are not identical either.  I'm happy with it.  

 

[James Formo]

All of you guys can be correct.  The color might vary by how you have the color adjusted on your TV.

Just be sure that your skintones aren't too pink.  I am trying to be funny but am too tired so never mind.