Spelljammer Photographics [Archive] - Wizards Community

Spelljammer Photographics [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Nightdruid
03-09-04, 01:25 PM Hey guys,

was surfing around and noticed some astronomy news with some really neato pictures. This got me thinking: what photos would make excellent SJ-related photos? Anyone want to share photos that would be inspirational to SJ?

Here's a couple I've found that I think are really neat:

A really nice fire-ring, perhaps a ring of two dozen size B fireworlds:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040220.html

A beholder nebula, perhaps...(reminds me a little of Unicron ;) )
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040305.html

I can almost see a titanic, nebula-like bird with this one:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040302.html

A view from an asteroid or outer world (Specter of Greyspace, perhaps).
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040223.html

Hmmm, maybe a world of golden waters?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040221.html

The Eye of a terrible god ala Sauron...:D
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000407.html

Anyeone else know about like images?
carmine_dragon
06-28-07, 01:40 PM These photos are amazing!
Silverblade The Enchanter
06-29-07, 12:37 PM hm
if there was interest, I could do renderings of my 3d SJ ships, as 2d images in .tif or .psd format, that folk could then insert into images like those? :)
tauster
07-01-07, 03:32 PM hm
if there was interest, I could do renderings of my 3d SJ ships, as 2d images in .tif or .psd format, that folk could then insert into images like those? :)

sure, please do so! being able to insert rendered ships in selectable backgrounds would be the wet dream of every handout-crazy game master! :D
Silverblade The Enchanter
07-01-07, 08:43 PM k, that's something I'll work on then! :)

gotta make hammerhsip, Mosquito and re-do Man-O-War and do the Spelljammer itself in 3d, lol.
Nightdruid
07-02-07, 07:22 AM What, you're not done yet? Chop chop!!! :D
Silverblade The Enchanter
07-04-07, 10:51 AM pffft! may a space hamster nest in yer underwear! ;)
DarthCestual
07-04-07, 11:49 AM pffft! may a space hamster nest in yer underwear! ;)

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c377/darthcestual/gopherzilla.gif
Silverblade The Enchanter
07-05-07, 10:05 AM hahha Gozilla-hamster!! :)
Nerik
07-09-07, 07:14 AM As a sideline to creating a 3D flow map in Astrosythesis, I've produced a few low-res (360 × 180) texture maps of Spelljammer planets which I'm happy to make available to anyone who wants them.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I should post them? (Photobucket, Flikr, etc).

Charles
tauster
07-10-07, 12:48 PM I don't know the others, but flickr is easy to use, even when you have only the free account.
Nerik
07-11-07, 11:45 AM Thank you, I'll give it a try.

Charles
Silverblade The Enchanter
07-11-07, 02:46 PM I have three palents on my site in 2d format, 2 1/2 meg file.

dead planets though, not green worlds, delete red surrounding them to leave planet, they are in .jpg format.
put them up years ago
:)
Nerik
07-22-07, 04:27 PM Ok, I finally gor round to trying this, lets see if it works:

Firstly: Toril (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189735/) (needs some work - too flat!).

Then: Krynn (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189671/)

Finally: Oerth (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189663/)

All were done using Fractal World Explorer from Nbos software. Although the Krynn map was touched up with the GIMP (I needed to add a red sea and a realy biiig volcano!).

Any comments on these, or ideas on improving them are welcome.

Charles
Nerik
08-19-07, 03:04 PM Ok, I've re-done Toril and added Anadia, Karpri and Selune. They're all here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/

Charles
bigmac
09-17-07, 06:55 PM Those are great space pictures. I went hunting for some space character art and found these pages:

Space elves:
http://www.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/portfolio/art/your-art.cgi?login=alternateearth&title=Space_Elf-975358137t.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/ewoodward3/

They are not bad, although like the SJ box covers they look imposible.

This is another impossible (but nice) bit of artwork:
http://www.eccentrix.com/members/Ewoodward3/Moons.htm

She could be a human-like starbeast.

I found a Gnome Space Chart, but was very disapointed:
http://www.netsplit.com/software/gnome-space-chart/
lavekkia
09-18-07, 05:39 PM I found a Gnome Space Chart, but was very disapointed:
http://www.netsplit.com/software/gnome-space-chart/

:rofl:
bigmac
09-18-07, 07:54 PM Ok, I finally gor round to trying this, lets see if it works:

Firstly: Toril (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189735/) (needs some work - too flat!).

Then: Krynn (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189671/)

Finally: Oerth (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189663/)

Any comments on these, or ideas on improving them are welcome.

All of these look pretty cool Charles. :cool:

Can you wrap them around a sphere and make them slowly rotate (for something like an animated GIF)? There are already a couple of these on Beyond the Moons, but if you are making maps of all the planets, you could give BtM a complete set.

What sort of scale are you using? I think that it would be worth either making these maps at a larger scale (so that people can fill a screen with the map or a rotating image of the planet)...

...or...

...using the size of the planet to make maps to the same scale, so that BtM could have a page for each crystal sphere that has rotating animated GIFs of all the planetary bodies in the sphere that show them in the correct proportion.

I notice that you have sometimes given the name of the crystal sphere, but othertimes left it out. This was one of your best descriptions: "Coliar, a Gas Giant/Air world in Realmspace"

I don't know if you are aware, but search engine robots, like Googlebot, will index all of the words in your descriptions, so people searching for "Coliar" or "Realmspace" could find that picture.

I think it might be worth you coming up with a standard format for your text descriptions that mentions the planet and the crystal sphere or the moon, planet and crystal sphere. (i.e. "Selūne - Moon of the planet Toril in Realmspace")

If you do something like that (or maybe even something slightly longer with more information) then more people could find your pictures.
bigmac
09-18-07, 08:06 PM Anyeone else know about like images?

Are you just after nebula? I'm sure that there will be a webpage out there with a complete list of pictures of nebula.

There might also be one with a complete list of pictures from a particular telescope (like Hubble).

Here is a pic of the Witches Head Nebula:

http://www.tedwolfe.com/Gallery/ImagesForWeb/Witch%20Head%20Nebula%20-Final%20Color%20Small%20Star+%20Star%20C olor.jpg

(I tried to put in a link, but vBulletin was stopping the URL of the JPG from working. Weird. You can see more space images on this page (http://www.tedwolfe.com/Gallery/ImagesForWeb/).)

I think that sort of effect could be done with a nebula that looks more like one of the D&D creatures known in wildspace.

Mind you what is a nebula? I know that stars are objects on the crystal sphere, but I'm not sure there is a universal rule for nebula. If they keep their place in the sky then they remain relative to the stars. So they would either be a discolouration of the sphere wall, a physical object on the sphere wall (like a gas cloud that spreads the light of the stars) or an object away from the sphere wall that orbits at the same size as the sphere wall.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Nightdruid 03-09-04, 01:25 PM	Hey guys, was surfing around and noticed some astronomy news with some really neato pictures. This got me thinking: what photos would make excellent SJ-related photos? Anyone want to share photos that would be inspirational to SJ? Here's a couple I've found that I think are really neat: A really nice fire-ring, perhaps a ring of two dozen size B fireworlds: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040220.html A beholder nebula, perhaps...(reminds me a little of Unicron ;) ) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040305.html I can almost see a titanic, nebula-like bird with this one: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040302.html A view from an asteroid or outer world (Specter of Greyspace, perhaps). http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040223.html Hmmm, maybe a world of golden waters? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040221.html The Eye of a terrible god ala Sauron...:D http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000407.html Anyeone else know about like images?
carmine_dragon 06-28-07, 01:40 PM	These photos are amazing!
Silverblade The Enchanter 06-29-07, 12:37 PM	hm if there was interest, I could do renderings of my 3d SJ ships, as 2d images in .tif or .psd format, that folk could then insert into images like those? :)
tauster 07-01-07, 03:32 PM	hm if there was interest, I could do renderings of my 3d SJ ships, as 2d images in .tif or .psd format, that folk could then insert into images like those? :) sure, please do so! being able to insert rendered ships in selectable backgrounds would be the wet dream of every handout-crazy game master! :D
Silverblade The Enchanter 07-01-07, 08:43 PM	k, that's something I'll work on then! :) gotta make hammerhsip, Mosquito and re-do Man-O-War and do the Spelljammer itself in 3d, lol.
Nightdruid 07-02-07, 07:22 AM	What, you're not done yet? Chop chop!!! :D
Silverblade The Enchanter 07-04-07, 10:51 AM	pffft! may a space hamster nest in yer underwear! ;)
DarthCestual 07-04-07, 11:49 AM	pffft! may a space hamster nest in yer underwear! ;) http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c377/darthcestual/gopherzilla.gif
Silverblade The Enchanter 07-05-07, 10:05 AM	hahha Gozilla-hamster!! :)
Nerik 07-09-07, 07:14 AM	As a sideline to creating a 3D flow map in Astrosythesis, I've produced a few low-res (360 × 180) texture maps of Spelljammer planets which I'm happy to make available to anyone who wants them. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I should post them? (Photobucket, Flikr, etc). Charles
tauster 07-10-07, 12:48 PM	I don't know the others, but flickr is easy to use, even when you have only the free account.
Nerik 07-11-07, 11:45 AM	Thank you, I'll give it a try. Charles
Silverblade The Enchanter 07-11-07, 02:46 PM	I have three palents on my site in 2d format, 2 1/2 meg file. dead planets though, not green worlds, delete red surrounding them to leave planet, they are in .jpg format. put them up years ago :)
Nerik 07-22-07, 04:27 PM	Ok, I finally gor round to trying this, lets see if it works: Firstly: Toril (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189735/) (needs some work - too flat!). Then: Krynn (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189671/) Finally: Oerth (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189663/) All were done using Fractal World Explorer from Nbos software. Although the Krynn map was touched up with the GIMP (I needed to add a red sea and a realy biiig volcano!). Any comments on these, or ideas on improving them are welcome. Charles
Nerik 08-19-07, 03:04 PM	Ok, I've re-done Toril and added Anadia, Karpri and Selune. They're all here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/ Charles
bigmac 09-17-07, 06:55 PM	Those are great space pictures. I went hunting for some space character art and found these pages: Space elves: http://www.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/portfolio/art/your-art.cgi?login=alternateearth&title=Space_Elf-975358137t.jpg http://www.geocities.com/ewoodward3/ They are not bad, although like the SJ box covers they look imposible. This is another impossible (but nice) bit of artwork: http://www.eccentrix.com/members/Ewoodward3/Moons.htm She could be a human-like starbeast. I found a Gnome Space Chart, but was very disapointed: http://www.netsplit.com/software/gnome-space-chart/
lavekkia 09-18-07, 05:39 PM	I found a Gnome Space Chart, but was very disapointed: http://www.netsplit.com/software/gnome-space-chart/ :rofl:
bigmac 09-18-07, 07:54 PM	Ok, I finally gor round to trying this, lets see if it works: Firstly: Toril (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189735/) (needs some work - too flat!). Then: Krynn (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189671/) Finally: Oerth (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10371694@N06/871189663/) Any comments on these, or ideas on improving them are welcome. All of these look pretty cool Charles. :cool: Can you wrap them around a sphere and make them slowly rotate (for something like an animated GIF)? There are already a couple of these on Beyond the Moons, but if you are making maps of all the planets, you could give BtM a complete set. What sort of scale are you using? I think that it would be worth either making these maps at a larger scale (so that people can fill a screen with the map or a rotating image of the planet)... ...or... ...using the size of the planet to make maps to the same scale, so that BtM could have a page for each crystal sphere that has rotating animated GIFs of all the planetary bodies in the sphere that show them in the correct proportion. I notice that you have sometimes given the name of the crystal sphere, but othertimes left it out. This was one of your best descriptions: "Coliar, a Gas Giant/Air world in Realmspace" I don't know if you are aware, but search engine robots, like Googlebot, will index all of the words in your descriptions, so people searching for "Coliar" or "Realmspace" could find that picture. I think it might be worth you coming up with a standard format for your text descriptions that mentions the planet and the crystal sphere or the moon, planet and crystal sphere. (i.e. "Selūne - Moon of the planet Toril in Realmspace") If you do something like that (or maybe even something slightly longer with more information) then more people could find your pictures.
bigmac 09-18-07, 08:06 PM	Anyeone else know about like images? Are you just after nebula? I'm sure that there will be a webpage out there with a complete list of pictures of nebula. There might also be one with a complete list of pictures from a particular telescope (like Hubble). Here is a pic of the Witches Head Nebula: http://www.tedwolfe.com/Gallery/ImagesForWeb/Witch%20Head%20Nebula%20-Final%20Color%20Small%20Star+%20Star%20C olor.jpg (I tried to put in a link, but vBulletin was stopping the URL of the JPG from working. Weird. You can see more space images on this page (http://www.tedwolfe.com/Gallery/ImagesForWeb/).) I think that sort of effect could be done with a nebula that looks more like one of the D&D creatures known in wildspace. Mind you what is a nebula? I know that stars are objects on the crystal sphere, but I'm not sure there is a universal rule for nebula. If they keep their place in the sky then they remain relative to the stars. So they would either be a discolouration of the sphere wall, a physical object on the sphere wall (like a gas cloud that spreads the light of the stars) or an object away from the sphere wall that orbits at the same size as the sphere wall.