Yes, It's another Death Star picture but it came out good enough to share. Comments?

-Kix

Looks good! The only thing that looks a little strange to me is on the bottom right half where it's in the shadow. The lights kinda look like stars. But that's about all that I can see. You might want to play with your textures a little more to give it a more metallic look. Jared

Actually, the DS had a matte-black type of finish, or at least it looked like it did. The textures came out nice, particularily the 'city light' one, Kixum. Could you share how you did them? Nebula Supernova Studios

It's been so long since I've seen that movie...I can't even remember the finish on the death star. It looks good though!

I have to confess that I cheated on the lights a little bit. I actually made two images. One that was covered in the lights and another that was plain. The lights were created by speckle painting a black square and then cutting black strips into it to give it the decking look. I then tiled that 4X4 in the glow channel along with the grey/grey squares for the sides. The center equatorial trench lights are actually spots in the glow channel. After I had both images, I used a linear fill in the mask channel usin paint shop pro for post processing to bleed the lit image into the unlit image.

-Kix

Klixum wrote>I cheated on the lights a little bit.< Actually, I've been doing some surfing regarding rendering and lightng, and discovering that the Hihg-end movie type Hollywood professionals almost always render in multiple passes. I'm most impressed with the background, especially if it's a shader and not an image background.

The background is an image I painted myself. A shader would be cool. I never thought of trying that.

-Kix