BC Screenshot Thread

[007bashir]

That's it I am pouting! Tomorrow's theme is the Nova class. I will try to include weapons fire. Also suggestions are welcome! 

How about a pic the moment voyager destroyed the exinox' nacelle in Warp?

[mckinneyc]

Now that is an idea! Thanks 007! 

[moed]

moed, what are the two ships in that second pic?

The fed ship is the Chabot Class

http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/Chabot_Class;66497

The ship being fired upon is the Dominion Light Cruiser

http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/SFPO_Dominion_Light_Cruiser;74103

[Killallewoks]

A nebula I made earlier, im starting to get back into photoshop again as my course demands it at sixth form. That and I can now resume with a project I started nearlly a year ago.

Hiding spot

[mckinneyc]

So gorgeous Kill!

Roll up! Roll up! Today my friends and fellow nerds I present to you the Nova class:

Continuity my a**e!


Can't Go Round? Go Through!!!


Out Matched


PS - Sorry to Bashir007. I spent ages trying to get the shot you suggested but my computer couldn't handle Voyager, the Equinox and plasma streams

[Killallewoks]

Very nice Mc, I like the one with the fly through, STA style. Quick question Mc how does your comp handle Voyager from the DQP, mine lags like crazy.

[mckinneyc]

Same here Kill, so glad it isn't just me

[007bashir]

Same here Kill, so glad it isn't just me

Oh, no problem mc! They are all good pics. The first reminds me of my last one couple days ago.

I also has the same problem with the voyager too.

[mckinneyc]

I knew I had seen a smililar picture somewhere before 

[Killallewoks]

Another one from me.  I shall stop with the Borg pics now. 

Battle of the Greens

[moed]

Great stuff everyone!

Curious, what are your system specs Kill and Mckinney? My system runs fine with the DQP.

[Killallewoks]

Great stuff everyone!

Curious, what are your system specs Kill and Mckinney? My system runs fine with the DQP.

Its only Voyager that kills the performance.

My specs:

Raedon 3110 Graphics chipset offering 1.9GB Dual core
AMD Vision 1.9GHZ 4GB RAM
Win7 (64 bit)

[Jb06]

What might be killing your performance is the lightmap's on Voyager.... Shrink them down 50% and you should be fine... its the tga's ending in _LM

Everything worked smoothly on my laptop so didn't think I had to alter any sizes.

[mckinneyc]

Cheers JB, but how exactly do I do that?

[007bashir]

Cheers JB, but how exactly do I do that?

[Killallewoks]

You can do it Photoshop or GIMP. 

[mckinneyc]

I know how to open it in photoshop but then what? haha

[moed]

I know how to open it in photoshop but then what? haha

Here's how to reduce the size of the .tga's

1. Open in Photoshop
2. Go to Image -> Image Size
3. In the resulting window, look at the top field where you see the width & height dimensions
4. Enter in each of those fields one half the size of each .tga eg. 2048 goes to 1024
5. Make sure that the "Constrain Proportions" box that is in the bottom section of the window is checked. This will size the .tga appropriately in both width & height at the same time.
6. Hit "OK"
7. Save the file
8. Done!

I have an older version of Photoshop so if you have a newer version, the image size window may look a bit different but the gist of how to do it will still apply. 

[mckinneyc]

Cheers Moed, Kill already told me in a PM and I have resized all the textures instead of just the lightmaps and now Voyager is running like a dream

[moed]

Excellent!

In that case, the little tutorial I posted can now be used by anyone who wants to optimize their texture sizes.