[henk brouwer]

"do you design your own textures or do you usually start with one from the Moray Library and mess with it or do you perhaps use third party texture sets? If it's the Last option, where's a good place to pick up some good textures for ship hulls? I'm just using the base metallic silver Library texture for the ship hull right now and I modified that texture to create a nice bronze for the other parts. Do you rely on the texture itself for the extra details on the ship hull or do you create all the small detail from 3D shapes you've embeded into the hull of the ship with different textures and colors? I can see how both approaches would work."

Ussualy I start from scratch when making a texture. Some examples of textures should be downloadable from Universal shipyards under the se4 extra's menu (made by Andrey)

When rendering a picture in moray/povray try to switchon 'anti-alliasing'under the render options menu and set rays to something like 2x2 or 4x4, this will make many textures look smoother and less psychedelic.

Also check out Andreys site, the ora planet forum and site, the forum's are there especially to discuss artwork and questions.