Lights and effects
Posted: 16.06.2005, 08:13
Now that I have a new graphics card I can see a lot of eye candy that was not there before. This has spurred ne to make more detailed textures and spacecraft for the Orion's Arm universe; this looks like being a never-ending task. But it is all for fun, after all.
The chlorine rich planet Chorus, from a description by Stephen Inness, now has a bump map, greenish specular reflection, and soft lighting on the nightside;
The spherical starship belonging to the Objectivist Empire is capable of accelerating in any direction at a moments notice thanks to its symmetrically arranged matter-to-energy motors (which double as weapons of course). It is approaching the much smaller and faster Stig Ranes; this ship has a reactionless drive, and the negative energy generators at each end of the ship emit a strange glow.
This Bishop Ring is illuminated by a central lamp, or luminaire; as the ring rotates fairly rapidly, the local star would cause disorientation if it were visible, so the ring rotates orthogonally to the star. This means the ring surface would be permanently in darkness without the lamp. The lamp is dimmed for a varying period of time each day to reproduce a diurnal rythym.
With these illuminated models I find that there has to be two models for each object, one emissive for the illuminated parts, and another for the non-illuminated parts of the same structure or spaceship.
The chlorine rich planet Chorus, from a description by Stephen Inness, now has a bump map, greenish specular reflection, and soft lighting on the nightside;
The spherical starship belonging to the Objectivist Empire is capable of accelerating in any direction at a moments notice thanks to its symmetrically arranged matter-to-energy motors (which double as weapons of course). It is approaching the much smaller and faster Stig Ranes; this ship has a reactionless drive, and the negative energy generators at each end of the ship emit a strange glow.
This Bishop Ring is illuminated by a central lamp, or luminaire; as the ring rotates fairly rapidly, the local star would cause disorientation if it were visible, so the ring rotates orthogonally to the star. This means the ring surface would be permanently in darkness without the lamp. The lamp is dimmed for a varying period of time each day to reproduce a diurnal rythym.
With these illuminated models I find that there has to be two models for each object, one emissive for the illuminated parts, and another for the non-illuminated parts of the same structure or spaceship.
