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Oh, the whole rags issue is easy.

Rags1 and
Rags2.

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And, dear Narf, which should be which?

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Okay, I've produced my first nice planet. Naturally I chose a rock oxygen planet type. Hope you like it.
Please, don't withhold any criticism.

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Just onecomplaints: Please think about Users which are using dialup, for example Atrocities and me. Your bmp is quite big, so please save it as a jpg or gif.

Question: Is this actually a 3d scene or a 2d scene ?! Cant tell..

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I'm terribily sorry for using a bmp. I'll use a nasty jpg from now on. I just hate jpg, it really craps your pic up. Give me bmp of tif, but I was unable to opload a tif. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

It's a real 3D scene. The goal was to make a nice planet with a transparent atmosphere. Well, I say I succeded in that. I was hoping you guys like the pic. When you guys give me some feedback I may produce more planets.

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Timstone, save the file as PNG instead of BMP or JPG. It loses just a tad of quality of the BMP but you can hardly notice the difference.

And the whole shortening of my nick...You can call me Rags all you want. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif I was referring to calling the second coming of me, Ragnarok-X, Rags instead of myself. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif My whole attempt was to confuse you and it must have worked. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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Actually the entire purpose of the PNG format is to have lossless compression. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Avoid JPG at all costs! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/Injured.gif Also, don't listen to David Gervais when he chimes in to tout his JPG compression algorithms... they still have some color loss. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Okay, I'll use PNG from now on. Thanks for the advise.
But what about the pic itself, any comment?

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So you have a second coming?

Is Rags a Prophet or Messiah? Will he bring about a new religion or the end of the world? Will he be shot before he causes more trouble than he's worth? Find out next week.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

And the Picture is dam pretty http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I say shoot the bastard. But that's only because of the fact that I love to shoot (I've been shooting since I was 11 or so, I have a licence since I was 18, that's 7 years now).

Thanks for the comment RD!
I'll soon post more pics.