Old Pictures from Celestia (locked)

[fungun]

Are those from Celestia?
I don't remember seeing those nebulaes before.
Which addon are they from? I like them.

Thanks,
Tim

[John Van Vliet]

they look like NON attributed artists painting
you might want to post the link to the Artist that painted them.That way shatters.net will not get a DMCA takedown notice

[John Van Vliet]

these ?

http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/fi ... ack;120820

Original Images: NASA & various space art (Casperium Deviantart Website)
Modified Images For BC: Moed/Killallewoks

http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/sc ... e/120820/2

Conditions.
TM & © 2012 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. Star Trek: TNG and related marks are trademarks of Paramount Pictures in the U.S. and/or other countries.

[selden]

bdfd,

What John was pointing out was that those images are copyrighted by Paramount. As a result, you are not allowed to publish (redistribute) them or images you derive from them unless you can produce a statement by Paramount saying that they allow you to do so.

[selden]

John was quoting the paramount copyright statement from one of the pages.
Interestingly enough, the link that John provided to the bridgecommander web site now shows only an empty window -- apparently whatever picture it was has been removed.

[John Van Vliet]

most things that are in the " star trek " area tend to have WAY far and overreaching ideas on what is " copyright infringement "
as such there lawyers tend to shoot first and KILL , then see if someone objects to being killed off

the same for music and movies
but Paramount/CBS has been known to try KILL OFF fan made movies ( even ones with guest stars from TOS
NY times - pay wall
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/arts/ ... .html?_r=4
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story ... ii-episode
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/

http://startrekofgodsandmen.com/main/

[selden]

The Paramount copyright statement is on most (probably all) of the BridgeCommander download pages. People providing uploads there are careful to state that the uploads they're providing are not produced by Activision or Paramount. You have to do the same, in addition to crediting the people who created whatever nebula images you use and abiding by those authors' own licenses. You have to provide that credit when you show their modified pictures here (or anywhere), not just when you upload an Addon to the Motherlode. When you show a screenshot anywhere, including here, which includes one of those backgrounds, you are publishing a modified version of that background. If the original creator did not provide permission, then you can't make your modified version public.

The BridgeCommander site has similar requirements. For example, see http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/upload/

One of their downloads (perhaps the one you used?) is at
http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/fi ... ack;120820

[fungun]

Maybe we should adopt a policy like Foundation 3D http://www.foundation3d.com/forums/showthread.php?t=769

Tim

[Tegmine]

In my on-going quest for better textures, I've since started using satellite images. Here's an icy, tundral world...

the original image I got courtesy the ESA website. Hope you like.

-M-

PS...I hope the "appropriation" of the foregoing images do not cause trouble for the rest of us...

[PlutonianEmpire]

View from the Middle East, over the pandorafied version of Earth.

earth_pandorafied5.jpg

View from where I live, on a "hazy" night ("hazy" due to the current position of the rotating Celestia cloud layer. ).

earth_pandorafied4.jpg

The zoom in both screenshots is normal (1.00x).

[kristoffer]

some views of the solar system Boliverius Alvera Sagittarii

here you see the gas giant Vertilu with the habitable moon Atlanticus Alvera Vertilus

and a view of an another planet, that is orbiting Boliverius Alvera Sagittarii C

[PlutonianEmpire]

Your time is up, puny Earthlings.

2012_doomsday.jpg

[Reiko]

Hi,

latest vessel for next project (perhaps) and credits in it.
USS Hombert, a Orion class (between Ambassador and Galaxy)...

USS Hombert.jpg

USS Hombert2.jpg

USS Hombert3.jpg

That looks kind of like Probert's original Enterprise C design.

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2011/07/ ... s-richter/

They wanted that for the 1701-C but didn't have enough time to make such a sleek model for one episode.

[Reiko]

Patience for what?

[PlutonianEmpire]

I was streamlining the SSC's for some old addons I've downloaded in the past, and I was in Don Edwards' terraformed Mars file, and I saw this little gem:

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      # Sunset [ 0.3 1.0 0.5 ]

Now, I don't remember if I added that or if he did, but I thought it was funny. I decided to convert it to absorption values, and got this:







Turned out kinda pretty, didn't it?


On an unrelated note; because I have WAY too much time on my hands...


I completely overhauled the inner Solar System!
All of the terrestrials except Mercury were demoted to Moon status.

Venus:


I also took the time to give Venus a proper Mie atmosphere.
No clouds:


(The Rotation Period for Venus looks funny because I was too lazy to rotate the texture and instead flipped the obliquity and gave it a negative rotation to maintain the tide-lock. )

For Earth:


(I think I posted this one here a while back. )
You can see the Moon in the distance.

And finally, Mars:

[Tegmine]

Scanned a paperweight sitting on my desk and came up with this...

-M-

[PlutonianEmpire]

Anyone remember this?

Well, some of you might hate me for this, but... I decided to go ALL the way!

I tweaked the system,

grandaddy1.jpg

And then....

grandaddy2.jpg

The Granddaddy of all solar systems!

The "A" star has 14 planets, the binary has 11 planets of its own, and 7 additional planets surrounding all three stars!

The outermost circumtrinary planet is about three quarters of a light year from the primary barycenter!

Hate me yet?

[PlutonianEmpire]

The "A" star has 14 planets, the binary has 11 planets of its own, and 7 additional planets surrounding all three stars!

Remember this visual law !

Binaries_disk.jpg

The outermost circumtrinary planet is about three quarters of a light year from the primary barycenter!

Physically impossible, too far !

I know.

The binary pair is about 1000 AU from the "A" star, so the innermost circumtrinary planet you see in the pics I posted was over 3000 AU from the primary barycenter.

It was more for the novelty of it.

[John Van Vliet]

getting away from ST for a bit
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the large 340Meg binary cmod of 433 Eros

[fungun]

John, she's a beauty

Tim