Epic Sci-Fi Starship Battle Kit [Commercial]

acharyapolina

So currently i am working on Epic Sci-Fi Starship Battle Kit.

It is a collection of 6 different starships with three different HDRI backgrouns for rendering. Also included are 2 sets of laser beams and an explosion prop with a Debris Or Sparks prop.

Each starship comes with three different colour material presets. 

Here are some images. Any critasism is always welcome. thanks. :)

Odaa

This looks good! May I ask what bloom settings (under render) were used for the renders with the laser fire?

acharyapolina

Hi, thanks. Currently I use the daz Octain renderer plugin, but you can get the same results in the daz iray renderer if you play with the settings a bit.

the settings i use most of the time in the daz iray are.

bloom filter radius. 0.020

bloom filter threshold, 50000 or higher

bloom filter brightness 0.020

the brightness and the radius can be played with go up or down depending on the scene lighting and what objects have the emission material applied to them.

you can also play with the brightness scale of each indivitual onject. for example. the brightness of the windows is only at 1000000 but the brightness of the engines is 5000000

 

 

 

acharyapolina

Also the colour you select for each object also effects how it looks, as whiter objects need less brightness and darker objects need more.

Odaa

Wow, thank you! Some very good advice there!

acharyapolina

Here is another scene created by the kit. :)

SkydogHex

I can always use more starships and the overall set looks nice, but I really love the design of the first ship . It invokes a feeling of the Bird of Prey, but the wings on the back remind me of the ships from the 80's Buck Rodgers show.

 

jedijudd

Looks great

acharyapolina

I'm happy you all like it. do you think the starships need more detail or are they looking good the way they are?

 

Odaa

acharyapolina said:

I'm happy you all like it. do you think the starships need more detail or are they looking good the way they are?

 

I think they look good as is, especially since the objective is to make a "space battle kit" where we are seeing multiple starships from far away, usually in the darkness of space.

acharyapolina

So I decided to add some Asteroids to the kit as well. that way you can make the outerspace more realistic.

Patrick Tyner

What about space/wreckage or ship debris from destroyed ships? And possibly a Capitol ship or two?

Xenomorphine

Darn, was hoping this would be a modular kit allowing us to create our own spaceships, but I like these, regardless. :)

Only thing I'd suggest for any future such products, would be turrets which can swivel and elevate. Space doesn't require things to be aerodynamic and I imagine future military ships would be bristling with turrets to give them all 360-degree coverage.

I actually think my main reason to obtain this will be those beam lasers and explosion and spark props. Those look very impressive.

Patrick Tyner

Also would love some of the crazy Robotech missle exhaust paths that spin and wrap around each other before going in 100 different directions to converge on their target! With some missles or photo torpedos.

retiretomaui

Looks really interesting! As I'm working on an illustrated novelinvolving some starship battle scenes, I'm quite interested in this. Some suggestions, if I may?

- Shields. In Trek, we often see bubble shields that surround the vessel. They become visible when hit with something. Those would be cool.

- For the laser or phasers, maybe take a look at how Babylon 5 did them. Many times, especially with the Vorlons, there was a deeper colored inner beam surrounded by a slightly lighter outer beam. Think of a beam within a beam. You didn't see it often, mainly with the huge cutting beams, but it was there sometimes. It would add some diversity to the beams. You also sometimes saw some halo, strobe and glow effects from their firing positions. Those can be added by the user from other products or in postwork, but I thought I'd mention it.

- Mebbe add an escape pod or two. Missiles or torpedoes?

- Debris.

Looks grat, can't wait!

 

Bob

 

Odaa

Now that it's been released, it's sitting in my cart :)

Odaa

My first experiment with this kit; used the bloom settings mentioned by @acharyapolina, plus denoiser at default settings and gamma set to 3.00 (Burn Highlights was set to 1.00 but I can't remember whether that's default or not.)