capacitors final renders
Moderator: pyramid
-
- Hunter
- Posts: 79
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:02 pm
- Location: Poland
- Contact:
capacitors final renders
capacitor 512x512px
capacitor 128x128px
capacitor2 512x512px
capacitor2 128x128px
capacitor3 512x512px
capacitor3 128x128px
capacitor4 512x512px
capacitor4 128x128px
capacitor5 512x512px
capacitor5 128x128px
yes i know those look boring and simple, but capacitors are simple things after all
capacitor 128x128px
capacitor2 512x512px
capacitor2 128x128px
capacitor3 512x512px
capacitor3 128x128px
capacitor4 512x512px
capacitor4 128x128px
capacitor5 512x512px
capacitor5 128x128px
yes i know those look boring and simple, but capacitors are simple things after all
Using : SVN
OS: Windows
OS: Windows
-
- ISO Party Member
- Posts: 453
- Joined: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:30 am
- Location: Europe
Perfectly! Really!
Just one question though: There are 15 stages of capacitors in game. If I include them, I would use the capacitor1 picture for stages 1-5, capacitor2 for 6-10 and so on. Or have you had something different in mind when planning for 5 stages?
Just one question though: There are 15 stages of capacitors in game. If I include them, I would use the capacitor1 picture for stages 1-5, capacitor2 for 6-10 and so on. Or have you had something different in mind when planning for 5 stages?
Last night I dreamed I ate an eight pound marshmallow. This morning my pillow was gone. Where is my pillow?
-
- Mercenary
- Posts: 123
- Joined: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:54 pm
- Location: California, USA
-
- Hunter
- Posts: 79
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:02 pm
- Location: Poland
- Contact:
i did not plan exactly whap picture should be associated with what item , i just add some pictures to add variety. the equipement will be redone so i tend not to associate items with picturesZeog wrote:Perfectly! Really!
Just one question though: There are 15 stages of capacitors in game. If I include them, I would use the capacitor1 picture for stages 1-5, capacitor2 for 6-10 and so on. Or have you had something different in mind when planning for 5 stages?
Using : SVN
OS: Windows
OS: Windows
-
- ISO Party Member
- Posts: 453
- Joined: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:30 am
- Location: Europe
-
- Bounty Hunter
- Posts: 197
- Joined: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:23 pm
- Location: Germany
Nice! But what are those stringlike things? Cables (or some equivalent) that connect the Capacitors? To me they look like some sort of rope that tie them together...perhaps you could make them look more like optical fibres?
Just like Lot's wife I could never look back
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
-
- Artisan Extraordinaire
- Posts: 1269
- Joined: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:55 am
- Location: Philippines
I think it looks better the way it is. And besides, ergo mentioned that each of the renders take a really long time (they should, as they look gorgeous ), so I don't think it's wise to redo them for that minor detail. Besides, they're in 128x128 ingame, little details are not that noticeable.perhaps you could make them look more like optical fibres?
My opinion only. of course.
A Step Into Oblivion
Dreams of things that will never be,
Songs of thoughts only I can hear,
Leave me be to sleep forever,
To dream my dreams,
And sing my hymns,
Of things that will never be...
Dreams of things that will never be,
Songs of thoughts only I can hear,
Leave me be to sleep forever,
To dream my dreams,
And sing my hymns,
Of things that will never be...
-
- Elite
- Posts: 8014
- Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:03 am
- Location: Montreal
- Contact:
LOL Fiber optic cables are electrically isolating. They transmit ***information*** as blips of light.To Megatherion wrote:Nice! But what are those stringlike things? Cables (or some equivalent) that connect the Capacitors? To me they look like some sort of rope that tie them together...perhaps you could make them look more like optical fibres?
Capacitors store electric charge (A.K.A "juice"; lots of it), NOT information. They need thick good old copper wires. Make that superconductors, if you insist; but NOT fiberoptics...
Latest version of Cinemut Opaque
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
-
- Bounty Hunter
- Posts: 197
- Joined: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:23 pm
- Location: Germany
Yeah, I know optic fibres won't conduct electricity, but it'd look cool. Superconductors would be the thing, of course... no losses of precious energy.
Just like Lot's wife I could never look back
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
-
- ISO Party Member
- Posts: 467
- Joined: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:55 pm
- Location: Big, flat Kansas
- Contact:
Optic fibers don't look any different from any other wires, really. From the outside, at least. Except in the case where they have "FIBER CABLE" written on the plastic sheathing.
Conquer space!
-pincushionman
---------------------------------------
Kansas really is flatter than a pancake!
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/pap ... ansas.html
-pincushionman
---------------------------------------
Kansas really is flatter than a pancake!
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/pap ... ansas.html
-
- Hunter
- Posts: 79
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:02 pm
- Location: Poland
- Contact:
-
- Elite
- Posts: 8014
- Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:03 am
- Location: Montreal
- Contact:
Nah, exactly I just couldn't let the "fiber optic" idea go unchecked , specially when the argument seemed to put an undeserved stain on your great work.
Copper should be available throughout most of the universe, but there are already conductive plastics (yep) that have better conductivity than copper; and who knows what we'll come up with, next...
Copper should be available throughout most of the universe, but there are already conductive plastics (yep) that have better conductivity than copper; and who knows what we'll come up with, next...
Latest version of Cinemut Opaque
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
-
- Elite
- Posts: 7243
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:40 pm
- Location: LS87, Buenos Aires, República Argentina
Actually, they should be superconductors, but for the simple reason that when you're requiring an output current of a few million amps (as it happens when you want to discharge the capacitor quicly when... say... jumping or firing a heavy weapon), anything not superconductive would melt rightaway (you know... superconductors have ~0 Ohm. resistence, which means no heating from current flow, but normal conductors heat up quite quickly).To Megatherion wrote:Yeah, I know optic fibres won't conduct electricity, but it'd look cool. Superconductors would be the thing, of course... no losses of precious energy.
-
- Elite
- Posts: 8014
- Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:03 am
- Location: Montreal
- Contact:
I was pondering just that, since yesterday. The thing is, any attempt at attaching a superconductor to a non-superconductor would probably be the achilles heel of such a system. You'd probably have to go superconducting for all electrical conductors used, including the big consumers, and even the electrodes inside the capacitors. But I guess you'd have to, pretty much.
Anyways, this is immaterial in terms of the graphics, as, again, like in the case of fiberoptic cables, superconducting cables might look just like normal cables; --except inside, where most of the cross section might be occupied by coolant circulation capillaries, and thermal insulation to the outside.
Anyways, this is immaterial in terms of the graphics, as, again, like in the case of fiberoptic cables, superconducting cables might look just like normal cables; --except inside, where most of the cross section might be occupied by coolant circulation capillaries, and thermal insulation to the outside.
Latest version of Cinemut Opaque
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
-
- Bounty Hunter
- Posts: 197
- Joined: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:23 pm
- Location: Germany
Hey...this game is SF. I guess there will be room temperature super conductors by that time...or even wireless transmission. So no need for coolant I guess.
Btw: It is a space craft. Space is quite cool, so I guess no coolant would be needed anyway.
Er...I guess we should just leave those cables alone...as long as the thing works in game and doesn't cause parts of the ship to melt away when you go through a jump or fire large scale weapons.
Btw: It is a space craft. Space is quite cool, so I guess no coolant would be needed anyway.
Er...I guess we should just leave those cables alone...as long as the thing works in game and doesn't cause parts of the ship to melt away when you go through a jump or fire large scale weapons.
Just like Lot's wife I could never look back
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
-
- Elite
- Posts: 8014
- Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:03 am
- Location: Montreal
- Contact:
Space is "cool" in the sense that it doesn't heat you up; but it doesn' help you get rid of heat either. Vacuum is a perfect thermal insulator; and the only way to get rid of heat is to radiate it away. Wireless transmission of power is renowned for it's inefficiency, in other words, produces large amounts of waste heat. Room temperature semiconductors? Maybe; maybe not. It hasn't been demonstrated they should be possible, nor that they shouldn't. All in all it's better to start from what we know is possible and weight the options when needing to appeal to superpowers to future technology. Like, perhaps there will be tractor beams, but there's no need to appeal to their being possible in order to park ships, when a station controller computer could just take over the ship's controls and use its lateral thrusters, to achieve same result. In this case the point is mute, since ergo put wires there that could be plain wires, cooled superconductors, or ambient temperature superconductors, all the same. So, I agree about one thing only: "we should just leave those cables alone".Hey...this game is SF. I guess there will be room temperature super conductors by that time...or even wireless transmission. So no need for coolant I guess.
Btw: It is a space craft. Space is quite cool, so I guess no coolant would be needed anyway.
Er...I guess we should just leave those cables alone...as long as the thing works in game and doesn't cause parts of the ship to melt away when you go through a jump or fire large scale weapons.
Latest version of Cinemut Opaque
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
Latest version of LaGrande noodleworks (scroll down).
An evolving La Grande How-To...
The non-working, but latest, CineMut test_bike
PU (Privateer: Parallel Universe's Home). WC or Privateer Drayman for you?
WCpedia --The Wing Commander Encyclopedia-- From Angel Deveraux through Belisarius to Zachary Banfeld...
WC Nexus forum, the Moonbase Tycho of WC fans.
-
- Mercenary
- Posts: 126
- Joined: Sun May 01, 2005 10:33 am
- Location: Italia
nanotubes filled surfaces are the actual most efficient cooling system.
only a prototype in research institutes, but are been proved efficient.
more, they are packable w/out sensible efficiency loss.
ok ok ok, nanotubes are not aesthetically pleasing for the observer, just a black, rough surface, but have you ever seen something that is efficient, cheap and beutifull? (apart Italian design, of course ).
only a prototype in research institutes, but are been proved efficient.
more, they are packable w/out sensible efficiency loss.
ok ok ok, nanotubes are not aesthetically pleasing for the observer, just a black, rough surface, but have you ever seen something that is efficient, cheap and beutifull? (apart Italian design, of course ).
"Eppur si muove ..."
(Galileo Galilei just after abjuring to the Inquisition)
(Galileo Galilei just after abjuring to the Inquisition)
-
- Elite
- Posts: 7243
- Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:40 pm
- Location: LS87, Buenos Aires, República Argentina
Go wonder - that was actually one of my crazy ideas a long while ago, working on a different game.GAlex wrote:nanotubes filled surfaces are the actual most efficient cooling system.
only a prototype in research institutes, but are been proved efficient.
more, they are packable w/out sensible efficiency loss.
I wouldn't call a Lamborghini "cheap", nor a Fiat "beautiful" (nor efficient, for that matter).GAlex wrote:ok ok ok, nanotubes are not aesthetically pleasing for the observer, just a black, rough surface, but have you ever seen something that is efficient, cheap and beutifull? (apart Italian design, of course ).
-
- Mercenary
- Posts: 126
- Joined: Sun May 01, 2005 10:33 am
- Location: Italia
@klauss
touché
I know, I know... it was only a bit of campanilism .
however I was referring to little objects, not cars.
"de gustibus non disputandum est" we say, but nanotubes surfaces are really of no interest at all, aesthetically speaking.
touché
I know, I know... it was only a bit of campanilism .
however I was referring to little objects, not cars.
"de gustibus non disputandum est" we say, but nanotubes surfaces are really of no interest at all, aesthetically speaking.
"Eppur si muove ..."
(Galileo Galilei just after abjuring to the Inquisition)
(Galileo Galilei just after abjuring to the Inquisition)
-
- Bounty Hunter
- Posts: 197
- Joined: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:23 pm
- Location: Germany
"de gustibus non disputandum est" say you?
Wasn't that your ancestors?
Wasn't that your ancestors?
Last edited by To Megatherion on Fri May 26, 2006 11:58 am, edited 1 time in total.
Just like Lot's wife I could never look back
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
Megatherion - selling YOUR wines all over the Galaxy.
If you're producing wine that deserves the name and need clients in all parts of the universe, be sure to check and call 1-800-MEGATHERION!
Only the best wines - everywhere.
-
- Artisan Extraordinaire
- Posts: 1269
- Joined: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:55 am
- Location: Philippines
-
- Mercenary
- Posts: 126
- Joined: Sun May 01, 2005 10:33 am
- Location: Italia
@megatherion
in Italy we use a lot of old latin maxims and idiomatic phrases.
like this one, that is one of my favourite: "Festa Lente"
that is to say: hurry slowly
another one is: "mater semper certa est, pater nunquam"
that means: "you can be sure of who is your mother, you can never be sure of who is your father" (in fact this is a roman law concept)
and, last but not least: "sedem in anno licet insanire"
that means: "once a year you can go mad" and we use it to justify carnival parties.
but there are hundreds of these maxims we use every day.
"veni, vidi, vici" (tiè, ciapa lì e purta a cà )
in Italy we use a lot of old latin maxims and idiomatic phrases.
like this one, that is one of my favourite: "Festa Lente"
that is to say: hurry slowly
another one is: "mater semper certa est, pater nunquam"
that means: "you can be sure of who is your mother, you can never be sure of who is your father" (in fact this is a roman law concept)
and, last but not least: "sedem in anno licet insanire"
that means: "once a year you can go mad" and we use it to justify carnival parties.
but there are hundreds of these maxims we use every day.
"veni, vidi, vici" (tiè, ciapa lì e purta a cà )
"Eppur si muove ..."
(Galileo Galilei just after abjuring to the Inquisition)
(Galileo Galilei just after abjuring to the Inquisition)
-
- Expert Mercenary
- Posts: 984
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:35 am
- Location: Brisbane, Land of Oz
- Contact: