/sigh i think Igiss avoids my posts like the plague. Ive sent him a pm, and am waiting for a reply. I cant stand a jpg (i can spot a jpg just by looking at it, i chose the .png format so as i could use any of the ships for a desktop image (note the resolution on them). I have started a junker ship but didnt like where it was going, ill post a pic once im on me desktop and let you lot decide if it has any future.
mmk switched to desktop and here be a pic, the renderer didnt like this model at all soo its just a screen capture
JPEG - Jittery Pictures Exaggerate Grain - at about 95%-100% quality, artefacts aren't apparent (oh! Ideal smuggling format!) and it's still 10 times smaller than a PNG. What the world needs is a standard Fractal Image Format - a lossy image format that's much better than JPEG. Sadly no standard has stuck despite some brave attempts. I would suggest that for the forums... for showing test renders to the general public... JPEG would save much server space and download time. If you're using 3Dstudio or similar setting compression to '11' (some kind of Spinal Tap reference?) is the equivalent of 100%. A bit off topic here. Still, all grist for the mill.
Mentioning that, what happened to JFIF? It was something when it appeared, just never heard of it since long time ago...
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor
That nose section looks pretty Liberty/order to me. Both could use a bomber. The order especially, Bs| have in fact only two ships allowed by RP. Perhaps one more.