SciFi Renders

[mckinneyc]

Nice!

Can't wait to get my hands on that Defiant 

[Phoenix Bondi]

[mckinneyc]

Wow Mr P! I love it! Now get those ships released for BC 

[ACES_HIGH]

one of these days I need to figure out if I can do stuff like that in poser.  that's awesome.

Here's one I did, trying to emulate the effect ships have when entering and exiting slipstream on Voyager.



I wish Photobucket didn't butcher my renders with jpeg compression though, it looked a lot better on my computer.  As before, the Defiant is provided by Farshot, the Vesta is by SF R&D.

I'm also experimenting with rendering the stars in celestia rather then using a stock star map.

[hobbs]

very cool nice to see a SFRD ship

not sure if this will help... but i tend to save renders as PNG files and dont see any alteration of the picture quality when i post them from photobucket. granted my renders are less detailed.

[Cadet]

Try uploading your image to the post instead of hotlinking. This was requested by Jimmy at least twice due to screen stretching.

I find no quality loss when saving my images out from PS in JPG or PNG, and quite often will open the image in MSPaint and simply click save. It will cut the filesize by half with no visible reduction in quality. PS files are large because of the metadata they contain. If the images are that important, you will retain PSD's for them anyways.

[limey BSc.]

Try uploading your image to the post instead of hotlinking. This was requested by Jimmy at least twice due to screen stretching.

I find no quality loss when saving my images out from PS in JPG or PNG, and quite often will open the image in MSPaint and simply click save. It will cut the filesize by half with no visible reduction in quality. PS files are large because of the metadata they contain. If the images are that important, you will retain PSD's for them anyways.

At one point, maybe. Unfortunately, we had to disable image uploading a while back.

[Cadet]

Ah, my mistake then. Thanks for the tip!

[ACES_HIGH]

Try uploading your image to the post instead of hotlinking. This was requested by Jimmy at least twice due to screen stretching.

I find no quality loss when saving my images out from PS in JPG or PNG, and quite often will open the image in MSPaint and simply click save. It will cut the filesize by half with no visible reduction in quality. PS files are large because of the metadata they contain. If the images are that important, you will retain PSD's for them anyways.

Using MS paint on high res pics will cause major compression issues, I've tried that, MSpaint is just not designed for them.  The program I use to compress images when needed is Ifranview, it can compress pics very small with minimal compression artifacts.

Supposedly, the PB compression issues are because of a change that was made to the way PB handles large format HD images, I could have opted out of it and stayed with the old hosting format, but I didn't hear about it until it was too late.  I used to post most of my renders to a site called artzone, provided by Daz3D, but they shut down last year for some reason and never went back up.

[Cadet]

Using MS paint on high res pics will cause major compression issues...

Stating that it causes "major compression issues" is well, a major overstatement.

Yes, it will generate artifacts but, in Windows 7 MSPaint employs an effective smoothing filter pass which reduces the artifact contrast by blending them.

For posting in forums, the quality difference is very negligible. If you are so concerned about the absolute quality, upload in PNG. For a very small tradeoff in filesize, you will always get a sharper image. With JPG quality settings at High, even Photoshop generates artifacts compared to saving in PNG format.

Because I simply cannot tolerate being called a liar Here is my rebuttal;

I took a 1920x1080 screengrab from NanoFX. I opened it in Photoshop and saved it to 2 filetypes; PNG and JPG (Maximum Image Quality).

I then took the JPG I just created and opened it in MSPaint and resaved it as a new JPG.

Then I created this image by increasing each original image by 400% and placing them side-by-side; (Please point out the "major compression issues" and/or artifacts)



Then, I uploaded it to Photobucket. I then redownloaded it from Photobucket to compare it for adverse compression caused by Photobucket, and found none. The filesize was exact as well.

Please be respectful of other peoples opinions. I was not stating my method as a fact, simply an alternative.

[baz1701]

After chatting to Nix been playing with this scene.

[Vortex]

That's pretty cool, Baz. The line where the water is intersected by the saucer seems a little to straight. The window reflecting are cool.

[AllotoniFan]

[mckinneyc]

Wow!

[AllotoniFan]

Two New Renders...

Looking For a New Home(STO-Legacy of Romulus Story)



Klingons, Always picking nice places to hunt.

[ACES_HIGH]

Stating that it causes "major compression issues" is well, a major overstatement.

Yes, it will generate artifacts but, in Windows 7 MSPaint employs an effective smoothing filter pass which reduces the artifact contrast by blending them.

For posting in forums, the quality difference is very negligible. If you are so concerned about the absolute quality, upload in PNG. For a very small tradeoff in filesize, you will always get a sharper image. With JPG quality settings at High, even Photoshop generates artifacts compared to saving in PNG format.

Because I simply cannot tolerate being called a liar Here is my rebuttal;

I took a 1920x1080 screengrab from NanoFX. I opened it in Photoshop and saved it to 2 filetypes; PNG and JPG (Maximum Image Quality).

I then took the JPG I just created and opened it in MSPaint and resaved it as a new JPG.

Then I created this image by increasing each original image by 400% and placing them side-by-side; (Please point out the "major compression issues" and/or artifacts)



Then, I uploaded it to Photobucket. I then redownloaded it from Photobucket to compare it for adverse compression caused by Photobucket, and found none. The filesize was exact as well.

Please be respectful of other peoples opinions. I was not stating my method as a fact, simply an alternative.

ok, maybe they've improved MSPaint since the version bundled with XP, I know that version has issues.  The artifacting in your pic isn't as bad as what I would get in XP.  I never said you were a liar, I was merely pointing out that the version of MSPaint which I am familiar with is not the ideal software for this application, I was unaware that this had been improved in the newer version.

and the issue with PB seems to be in using linked pictures, it automatically scales them down or something to save on bandwidth, even though they still host the full size file.  So you can download a file from PB and not see a difference, but when you link them they will appear compressed.  Also, I've noticed that because of your browser cache, sometimes you'll still see the original version of a file, even though everyone else sees the compressed version, so it can be hard to tell until you either clear your cache or look at it on another computer.

[King Class Scout]

ok, maybe they've improved MSPaint since the version bundled with XP, I know that version has issues.  The artifacting in your pic isn't as bad as what I would get in XP.  I never said you were a liar, I was merely pointing out that the version of MSPaint which I am familiar with is not the ideal software for this application, I was unaware that this had been improved in the newer version.

and the issue with PB seems to be in using linked pictures, it automatically scales them down or something to save on bandwidth, even though they still host the full size file.  So you can download a file from PB and not see a difference, but when you link them they will appear compressed.  Also, I've noticed that because of your browser cache, sometimes you'll still see the original version of a file, even though everyone else sees the compressed version, so it can be hard to tell until you either clear your cache or look at it on another computer.

oh hell yes.  Hobbs was having me throw together the badge ideas for those shuttles of his for a while, and paint took a major step up from the XP version.

[WileyCoyote]

Since I use Photobucket, I too was having issues with picture quality. You have to check your account settings for image uploading. Then you will have crisp pictures if their filesize is 1MB or less.

I use Photoshop to save my images- Save for Web and Devices.

[Cadet]

A Chimera, patrolling the Kono Mining Station.

[hobbs]

Cadet.... i... *speechless*
 

thank you. im going to see if i can re cut the hull so the edge of the two maps are fitted better.

you do her proud sir!