Stargate ships part 2. Using backround images

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One of the wonderful things with Raylectron you can do is using background images to get a great photo as opposed to using HDRIs. The best way I have found to do this is to get your lighting right before uploading the image. So for example if it us a space theme like the one I am using here, set up your model with the sun/moon mode as either late afternoon or evening. Get your shadows just as you want them to be, then upload your image. Don't use images that are either too large, or too small; they should be somewhere around the same size or just slightly larger than the resolution you have set.
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That makes perfect sense, 100%, thanks for the advice and I hope others will read it and create renders as beautiful is this one.
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Support wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:13 pm That makes perfect sense, 100%, thanks for the advice and I hope others will read it and create renders as beautiful is this one.
It took a lot of trial and error to get it where I wanted it to be. I think if you're not in a rush, experimentation works very well, as you gradually see the changes each time you try something different.

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Trial and error make perfect, anything less is, well, less "good" :D
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Another nice one!
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BKilburn wrote: Sun Nov 13, 2022 8:04 pm Another nice one!
Thank you.

Now here is a good question. Does my ship look anything like the Galactica?

I've been having a week long argument with a man on FB. He says its just a Galactica clone, why I don't know? And while the nose shape is similar, that's about as close as it gets. I've done a model of the Galactica some years ago, so I think I know what I'm talking about.
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Looking like the Battlestar Galactica? hello no!!!
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Support wrote: Mon Nov 14, 2022 1:41 pm Looking like the Battlestar Galactica? hello no!!!
That is what I and a dozen others said. But this man was adamant. So badly the Admin of that group had to sin bin him for 48 hours! :lol:
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The shape is similar, not the same, but similar. Anyone thinking it's a clone is just narrow minded, like saying a car is a clone of a truck because the shape is similar :roll:
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Was he referring to the Pegasus?
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To be honest, your ship looks exactly like the NCC-1701 :lol:
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bwahahaha, no way does your starship look like the one in Battlestar.

Bryan and you make some nice models and renders.
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I used a similar example, I said you couldn't say an Arliegh Burke Destroyer was the USS Missouri because they were both ships and had much the same bow :mrgreen:

Someone else mentioned the Pegasus, but they at least had the courtesy to say it was only remotely similar.

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GateGirl86 wrote: Mon Nov 14, 2022 4:29 pm who is Bryan?
That other guy who posted starships
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Ah, yes he does :)
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It does not look like a Battelstar. That guy needs his eyes checked. :lol:
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BKilburn wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 8:55 pm It does not look like a Battelstar. That guy needs his eyes checked. :lol:
Despite being shot down by at least a dozen people, he still went on until I had to lock the thread! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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