KanesS shipset now available!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

how'd you do some of those with doga?

[Fyron]

I think he cheated and just made them all in Paint Shop Pro.

[primitive]

Very nice.

Some of the minis are a little too dark though (the ones that are only red). Shipsets with nearly invisible ships can be quite a PITA to play against sometimes. Any possibilities of lightening it up a bit

[dogscoff]

how'd you do some of those with doga?

Basically I create the image 512*512 pixels in DOGA, which comes out with lots of clunky angles. I quickly alter the colour levels in adobe photopaint (or whatever it's called- it's not much good for more than that) then switch to psp5 to smooth the angles into curves with my trusty artpad & pen. Then I resize the image to 128*128 or 36*36 as appropriate.
My philosophy is that DOGA is nothing more than a tool for helping me get the 3D perspective & lighting right when I'm drawing with my pen, although in reality DOGA did a lot more of the hoof-work than I'd anticipated once I learned how to use it. This was my first ever experiment with DOGA and 3D modelling, and you can see the difference in quality between some of my first pics (scout, escort) compared to the later ones (carriers, baseships) as I refined the process.

A few images (ie the infantry & race pics, the worldship) were made purely in PSP. The troops & weapon plats & some of the ice they sit on were generated in DOGA. Without Doga I never would have got the semi-transparent qualities of the ice, although it still needed smoothing and tweaking. However on those pics the backgrounds, skies, moons, lens flares & weapon effects were all pixel-pushing PSP work.

One of these days I'll upload some files to show my workings like I did here and here.

Primitive: I'll see what I can do.

[ March 04, 2004, 13:28: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[TerranC]

I like it, I like it a lot. Good job DS. Now everyone will bug you not only for race portraits, but full shipsets as well; brace yourself =D