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posted 2009.11.27 at 04:44

20090812 (15) - While I can let the previous page slide on account of the nostalgia factor, the render quality for this page is just... ragged. Ragged enough to merit a re-render at some point in the future.

Rather or not this happens depends on... well, everything, really. In theory by the time I'm done texting up the previous chapter, I'll have everything in order and will be able to do a re-render out of sheer boredom. This is one of those pages I'd like to fix... but don't necessarily NEED to fix. It can slide... but it shouldn't.

Rather it does or doesn't depends on a list of factors.

20090813 - A short list, actually - boredom. Turns out panels one and two are fine; three and four have been re-rendered. Spiffy! I took a stab at the first two but no love - MR didn't match scanline. Not even close. And an SL re-render would have taken nine billion years, give or take. So I went the easy route and MR'ed the Loki shots. Those originally had to be composited, as SL couldn't handle five of 'em at once for whatever reason. MR? No problem.

20090908 (17) - No action. Well, webscaled. It had to happen sometime.

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OPD : 2006.06.10 @ 21:25

A couple of days of rendering and work (texturing, gun and missile mounts, etc) for what came down to about twenty minutes of photoshop work. I fucking love doing all-digital panels.

The downside is that the quality settings could do with a smidge of work - a higher quality version of the first panel is rendering as I post this. I'll swap this page out with an improved one whenever it pops out of the software.

18:31 <@waltman> solios: in the second panel, are they supposed to be flying down?
18:32 <@waltman> oh, and i like how you've got the guns mounted right over the flight slit thingy :)
18:35 <@solios> heheh
18:36 <@solios> they're coming out at an angle, like the hovercraft in Terminator.
18:36 <@solios> but they're also going down to cruising altitude.
18:37 <@waltman> I could also point out that the flight slit thingy makes a nice red bullseye for anyone attacking the ship :)
18:38 <@solios> yeah, downside of the docking lock system.
18:39 <@solios> that circle + lock is designed to snap into any similarly equipped ship or station in seconds.
18:39 <@solios> (and yes, it's a nice target)