OT: Lots of pretty pictures! Look down!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Ed Kolis said:
Nice fighter, reminds me of the Fazrah
And I hope you enjoy using Wings
BTW, if you want you can also render in OpenGL or if you have it Yafray - which is free at www.yafray.org (don't be fooled by the low Version number, it's actually quite functional); you can also download plugins to render in Povray or Renderman compliant renderers, but the Renderman plugin is currently broken and won't let you put multiple textures on a single obect... a pity since it looks so easy to fix and Renderman renderers produce such nice output... they even let you use custom procedural shaders, and Aqsis (a free Renderman renderer, www.aqsis.com) even has a "bake" plugin to convert procedural textures to UV textures so you could use them with Starfury or SE5!

How do you use the OpenGL renderer? I've got the image in the window, now what do I do?

[Ed Kolis]

Hmm, it's not saving to a file somewhere? Let's see... oh, you have to hit the little box thingy to the right of "OpenGL" on the Render menu; that will bring up the render options window and you can choose to render to a TGA file, which should be convertible to a BMP or JPG or whatever you want by something like IrfanView.

To get a better render than OpenGL provides, you might want to download Yafray at www.yafray.org; Wings has pretty good support for Yafray rendering, and you get more options for the texturing, too, since it's a raytracer.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Ed Kolis said:
Hmm, it's not saving to a file somewhere? Let's see... oh, you have to hit the little box thingy to the right of "OpenGL" on the Render menu; that will bring up the render options window and you can choose to render to a TGA file, which should be convertible to a BMP or JPG or whatever you want by something like IrfanView.

To get a better render than OpenGL provides, you might want to download Yafray at www.yafray.org; Wings has pretty good support for Yafray rendering, and you get more options for the texturing, too, since it's a raytracer.

And here's a pretty picture for your trouble.

Now, to try out yafray...

Oh, and there really is more to come. I've got some models already made.

Ed Kolis said:
Nice fighter, reminds me of the Fazrah

I was thinking of a certain old tv show I think we all know when I made it.


And a bow...

With a string...

Should probably go back to an earlier one and seperate the string from the bow...

Mad bow! Mad bow! Yeah, lame joke. But still funny.


This one I call a disrupter for no particular reason.


A carrier. The fighter launch slots are too smoothed, but you can see them.


A double-hulled ship. Battlecruiser of the Crab Imperium?


Think throwing things and figure it out.


It's a sheild; heraldic, I think.


It's a plasma gun with attached shoulder strap.


A spikey thing. Ed Kolis, I think, was telling me some of the stuff you could do in wings, so for some reason I did them all on one cube.


I hope I don't have to tell you what this one is.


And that's it. There's a few more, but they aren't as visually interesting.

Ok, um, how do I install yafray as a plugin?

[Ed Kolis]

I like the bows - would make a good addition to any fantasy based mod with some textures on them

To set up Yafray, just download it from www.yafray.org and follow the installer instructions, then go into Wings and hit the Edit | Plugin Preferences | Yafray menu option, and browse to the location of yafray.exe. There's no plugin you need to install because Yafray support is built into Wings.

[Slynky]

You've been having TOO much fun, OBVIOUSLY!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Slynky said:
You've been having TOO much fun, OBVIOUSLY!

Some sort of cargo craft, I guess.

What is this 'TOO much fun' of which you speak?

AT, DOGA good, Wings better!

[Ed Kolis]

Narf, you could make Doga parts for Atrocities with Wings so his shipsets could look a bit more varied... I've been wanting to do that myself but I really don't know what kinds of parts to make, and converting them to the proper format is a bit of a pain - Wings doesn't natively support .DXF, which is the only way to get new parts into Doga, so we'd have to export our parts as .OBJ or .3DS or something and convert them with some converter tool...

BTW, hasn't Atrocities "retired" from shipset making at least a few times already?