2300AD art page

[GJD]

I actually did these for my Eclipse Phase game, but they have a lot of the same vibe as 2300AD

G.


courier by goober918, on Flickr


Song Cai Flower 1 by goober918, on Flickr


uss aLASKA SCHEM by goober918, on Flickr



DSMV(P) White Lotus by goober918, on Flickr


EPS1 by goober918, on Flickr


freya beauty by goober918, on Flickr


Remembering the Royal Space Navy by goober918, on Flickr

 

[Hionhurn]

@GJD Those are very nice images, very inspiring

 

[middenface]

AH good old DOGA, learn't the ropes on DOGA... Nice ship designs BTW>

In fact this ship is DOGA (proper Kanji too!)
http://biomassart.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/ijs-kuttara/

Must stat her up when the book is out. The hull texture is from a Narn G'quan...

 

[GJD]

I cut my teeth on 3DS version 2, 3 and 4 - with a DOS command line prompt to run the IPAS files for post processing. Took 4 hours to render a sing frame at 640x480.... Ahh, those were the days...

I just can't be arsed to spend the time on it now. Doga lets me put a ship together in 15 minutes which is fine as a visual for my gaming group. Back in the day, though, we were spending 100's of hours a week building mesh's that were sold to Paramount amongst others.
G.

 

[AndrewW]

I cut my teeth on 3DS version 2, 3 and 4 - with a DOS command line prompt to run the IPAS files for post processing. Took 4 hours to render a sing frame at 640x480.... Ahh, those were the days...

I remember those days, was running 3DS on a 386DX 25mhz initially.

 

[GJD]

Yup. I probably spent as many hours shuffling programs in and out of extended and expanded memory and writing custom boot files as i did actually modelling. Anybody who says the modern versions of Windows aren't a step forward has never had to write an autoexec.bat and system.ini file.

I was watching TV the other day and saw an advert for mouthwash with CGI liquid effects of mouthwash splashing round teeth and forming into little mouthwash dudes to fight the evil plaque bacteria. It struck me that most people don't even notice these kinds of effects now, whereas when the "water snake" appeared in The Abyss in 1989 it was groundbreking and cost millions of dollars.

But I digress. Back to spaceships and all that. Pew pew pew!

G.

 

[AndrewW]

Yup. I probably spent as many hours shuffling programs in and out of extended and expanded memory and writing custom boot files as i did actually modelling. Anybody who says the modern versions of Windows aren't a step forward has never had to write an autoexec.bat and system.ini file.

Hey, I've written plenty of config.sys/autoexec.bat files and spent time optimizing program loading in high memory (back before there where the automated tools like maximizer to do this for you). Had more then one batch file that put in a different config.sys/autoexec.bat setup depending on what I needed. Never wrote a system.ini file though.

 

[IanBruntlett]

Hey, I've written plenty of config.sys/autoexec.bat files and spent time optimizing program loading in high memory (back before there where the automated tools like maximizer to do this for you). Had more then one batch file that put in a different config.sys/autoexec.bat setup depending on what I needed. Never wrote a system.ini file though.

BTW - DOS 6 (& possibly 5) had a menuing system added to it. When you booted your PC, config.sys would display options. It interacted with autoexec.bat by setting spme environment variables. You could have radically different environments based on this technology.

 

[AndrewW]

Hey, I've written plenty of config.sys/autoexec.bat files and spent time optimizing program loading in high memory (back before there where the automated tools like maximizer to do this for you). Had more then one batch file that put in a different config.sys/autoexec.bat setup depending on what I needed. Never wrote a system.ini file though.

BTW - DOS 6 (& possibly 5) had a menuing system added to it. When you booted your PC, config.sys would display options. It interacted with autoexec.bat by setting spme environment variables. You could have radically different environments based on this technology.

Yeah, never used it though myself. My method worked just fine, didn't see any need for it.

 

[GJD]

Yup. I probably spent as many hours shuffling programs in and out of extended and expanded memory and writing custom boot files as i did actually modelling. Anybody who says the modern versions of Windows aren't a step forward has never had to write an autoexec.bat and system.ini file.

Hey, I've written plenty of config.sys/autoexec.bat files and spent time optimizing program loading in high memory (back before there where the automated tools like maximizer to do this for you). Had more then one batch file that put in a different config.sys/autoexec.bat setup depending on what I needed. Never wrote a system.ini file though.

Config.sys was what I meant. System.ini came along with the first versions of Windows I ever used, 3.0, and did the same sort of thing as the config.sys did, but just for Windows. . I remember having a stack of boot disks on 3.5 inch floppy, each optimised for a certain program.

But, like I say, spaceships. Pew pew.

 

[AndrewW]

Config.sys was what I meant. System.ini came along with the first versions of Windows I ever used, 3.0, and did the same sort of thing as the config.sys did, but just for Windows. . I remember having a stack of boot disks on 3.5 inch floppy, each optimised for a certain program.

But, like I say, spaceships. Pew pew.

Thought you might have. Yeah, knew where that originated.

 

[middenface]

Back on track and in the words of Monty Python.. And now for something completely different..

Thanks for Steffon Worthington for letting me post it..

 

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