3D Rendering

3D RENDERING
This is my first attempt at creating a 3D object. All in all it turned out pretty good. But I was in a hurry and left out a few details that would have made it look more convincing. I'm not dissatisfied with it, but I wanted to post something on my pages so I hurried it along a bit.

All images on this page are copyrighted material.

"Savior" Heavy Escort
The ship was modeled in Lightwave 5.5 ®.
Texture and background images were created in Adobe Photoshop ®. It is basically a series of segmented boxes and spheres squashed and stretched with a little beveling here and there.

The blue thruster flames were made by using a gradient image map and special lighting effects. I have to confess that the flames were not my creation but are an object and image file combination that is included in Lightwave's tutorials section.

I haven't gone into a lot of detail in these renderings, but this being my first project in Lightwave I think it turned out well. The large cylinders at the rear of the ship control the thrusters for up and down movement. And now that I think about it, I didn't provide for lateral movement of the ship! Ok, so it's back to the drawing board.

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By the way, the background on this page is the same background used in the renderings. I've even used this program to make animation's for the web. These images don't do the actual rendered object justice because I converted the images to 3 scan JPG's. But you can get a pretty good idea of what it looks like.

I was absolutely amazed at the possibilities Lightwave provides. I'd say that there is no end to what you can do with this program. Next I'll be putting together an AVI animation so that those of you who are into 3D can see what is possible. There are three images for each texture or surface of the ship. You need a color image for the actual coloring of the surface, then you need a grayscale image for a diffusion map, and last but not least a specular image. I used the diffusion image as a bump map also to give the surface real like texture.
This bird can "FLY"!

Here is another image of a "Braxian Fighter"
in a scene with a spiral galaxy. All created in Lightwave

If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to E-mail me! JB

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