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[SaturnRing]

VaLkyR_Anubis wrote...
Are dreams a kind of salvation or something like a prediction of what might happen?
Wrex is a strong and trustworthy krogan, but in his heart he is pure...


Thinking about the bravery of a young, turian soldier.

Your Shep is cool.

[xbb1024]

Hi all, thanks to everyone who liked my Ember Shepard. She is my main Shepard, and the one closest to my femshep from ME2. Now I’d like to introduce Ji Hyun Shepard (renamed from Jin Hyun), combat engineer.



From as early as she can remember, Ji Hyun Shepard has always loved gadgets. Ji Hyun started life aboard an Alliance deep space research and engineering station, where her mother Colonel Hannah Shepard was stationed. Her father was a neuro-computing scientist who, despite the widespread animosity to artificial intelligence throughout the galaxy, always believed that the natural laws that brought civilization and prosperity to organic life would eventually evolve in synthetic life as well. Ji Hyun was fascinated by her father and the other scientists, but also drew inspiration from her mother’s directness and practicality.



Ji Hyun enrolled in the Alliance Academy as an engineering cadet. She excelled in all of her fields of study, but showed exceptional talent in informatics and tactical battlefield awareness. After graduating with honors, Ji Hyun was offered a non-combatant role as an information warfare officer but insisted on having some field experience like her mother, and joined a Marine Expeditionary unit as a combat engineer instead. Her first deployment was Akuze – which was a disaster. Her entire unit was wiped out except for Shepard, who only survived to reach the landing pad because of a quickly improvised vibration dampening field she constructed out of her kinetic shields. The episode changed Shepard, teaching her to trust her survival instincts as much as her tech.



Ji Hyun understands the importance of science and knowledge, but also respects the responsibility to use it for the betterment of all life, whatever its form. She harbors a deep distrust of Cerberus for their involvement at Akuze, and although she would have preferred to study the Collector base it was more important to deny it from Cerberus.

[Graceyn]

Revan654 wrote...

Graceyn wrote...

It could be the lighning in that Scene, Is that Default Color from the CC or did you alter it?

If you did alter it, Any chance I could those Values?

I think her hair color is the default from the CC, but I know I did play with some shifts in tone, so just in case:

B = 0.121985711
G = 0.0151752383
R = 0.116575778

That being said, this shot was modified in GIMP (contrast, lighting, saturation); in-game the color isn't quite that dramatic...though, looking at some unaltered screenshots, it is pretty close .

@SaturnRing:  Thanks, hope you keep reading.  Over time it gets (in my opinion) considerably better.  Longer, but better .

[SebAusFR]

Lots of updates!  and good ones, of course. I will comment/reply soon, but for now, priority to the story! (Razviolet is overtaking me, crap...)

Long post is long, and sorry about picspam :innocent:

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In due time, the Normandy flew to the Perseus Veil to meet with the Quarians. Hoping that she could use their help in the war in Citadel Space, Kyla instead discovered that they had launched a full scale assault on the Geths, and, as a consequence, the Geths had allied with the Reapers.

She could not be less enraged. She had a few friends within the Quarians, and in general she despised the racist attitude that a lot of species and people had about the Quarians; they deserved the same respect as any intelligent life. But, that did not forbid her to harbour a deep resentment against them. Each time she had to work with them, she felt that the Quarians were doing everything that was within their reach to pile mistakes and unwarranted moves. This became clear, once again, when she hosted the Quarian leadership on the Normandy. There was dissent among the admirals, but whatever they said, they had agreed to a war... and now, they were counting on Kyla to solve their problems!

She did not take gloves with them, and clearly laid down her feelings, that the attack against the Geths was a massive mistake and that it could very easily lead to the extinction of the Quarians. And of course, that they had pushed the Geths in the Reapers' arms, despite all the efforst Kyla had taken the past year to reform the Heretic faction and allow the Geths to live in peace. Paradoxaly, the ambiance onboard the ship that day was more electric than when Kyla hosted the Turian-Salarian-Krogan summit, a meeting it was difficult to top-up in terms of aggressivity and names calling...



Fortunately, there was Tali. The gentle, sometimes ackward, but immensely competent Tali. At times, when her mind wandered, Kyla considered that Tali and Vakarian were actually quite similar. She entertained the thoughs that they could have been together, had she not already grabed the Turian. No jealousy here, hopefully. Nonetheless, Kyla was happy that her friend was here to avoid her opinion on the Quarians sinking to the depths... A wise decision not to expose her father's failure to the admirals' board the previous year...



Having agreed to help the Quarians and well hoping that they would withdraw their fleet to focus on the actual ennemy, Kyla organised a stealth approach onto the Geth dreadnought that appeared to be the centre of Reaper's control over the Geth armada. By that day, she was completely blasée of the fantastic capability of her ship: who could claim to be able to drop out of FTL and navigate in the very middle of a battle involving thousands of ships and remain undetected?




Boarding the Geth ship was not going to be easy. They had to spacewalk to an entrance port to take advantage of the only breach the Quarians bombardment had managed to inflict upon the massive ship.

Spacewalking. Years ago, she had considered it a rather fun experience. Well, maybe not during the extended N7 training missions where they had to remain for several days in their sealed armours in low gravity. But, usually, it was pretty fun. Until one specific day...



She found herself checking the air intake more than what was appropriate. The view was simply amazing, walking slowly with Rannoch in all its majesty, and with the lights of the gigantic battle flashing all around her. But, she clearly remembered that day, 3 years ago, when after having been ejected from the Normandy's wreck, she felt the pressure in her suit lowering. She remembered her heart racing, pounding. She remembered gesturing in panick, trying to do something... Nothing could have saved her.

Her heart pounded so hard it almost burst out of her chest when she almost lost her grip on the docking tube. Floating in space... no! no! I can't allow that! not again...

She regained her grip and proceeded to the end of the tube with haste, having completely chased away any interest in her surrounding. All she wanted was to step into that ship, and fast. That it was an ennemy, Reaper-controlled dreadnought mattered little.

I made it...



The progression within the dreadnought was not easy, but what could realistically oppose a team featuring the two human Spectres? The fought their way to the vessel's core only to discover that Legion was used as the relay to broadcast the Reapers' signal.

Legion... Kyla had been saddened to see him (or it, as the others always corrected her) go after they completed their mission against the Collectors. Thanks to Legion, she had came to appreciate the Geths and value their quest for understanding organic life and peaceful (if distant) coexistance. That was a long way from the sentiment she harboured during her early N7 and Spectre career...

Considering species as a whole, Kyla had better feelings about the Geths than the Quarians. The Geths were not unstable, and despite allying with the Reapers, she could not consider them as traitors. Quarians irredentism and revanchism had pushed them to extremes, as Legion himself would confirm later. However, she knew perfectly well that she had to stop the now-corrupted Geths. From the moment she learned that the Reapers had taken control of them, she had hoped that there was a way to save the Geths from the Reapers and end this idiotic war without the annihilation of either faction... Seeing Legion free of corruption gave her hope it might be possible.

Kyla fell a lot during the mission, as if fate had decided to play with her guts that day...

Modifié par SebAusFR, 24 juillet 2012 - 02:34 .

[Dragon_Claw]

Just saw this great piece!  


By class34

[Audience]

Dragon_Claw wrote...
*snip*
Just saw this great piece!  

By class34

That's uh, an interesting way to lose your armour.
Bet they wouldn't draw BroShep like that.

[Dragon_Claw]

Audience wrote...

Dragon_Claw wrote...
*snip*
Just saw this great piece!  

By class34

That's uh, an interesting way to lose your armour.

Kinda agree with you there.

But the focus for me is her face with the glowing eye which looks great.

[Tup3x]

Audience wrote...

Dragon_Claw wrote...
*snip*
Just saw this great piece!  

By class34

That's uh, an interesting way to lose your armour.
Bet they wouldn't draw BroShep like that.

Hah! My thoughts exactly.

[Audience]

@ Dragon Claw
True enough, it's just that doesn't seem to be the focus of the picture. =P

@ RazViolet
That'd be the Skirmish Armor, you can get it through the console. =)
And thank you!

@ Syrdeth
Thank you! 
I see Maria's a green-armour fan too! *brofist*

@ SaturnRing
Good read, though the lack of paragraphs threw me off a bit at the beginning. =P
Looking forward to reading part 2!

[Jane Shepard]

@Syrdeth
Thanks! Yeah, I tried different hairstyles on her, but 'classy' suits her more than others.

@SaturnRing
Awesome story! I'm so happy to see Deirdre! I think to translate Jane's story a bit later

@xbb1024
Ji Hyun is very nice Cool backstory! Ji Hyun is a very interesting person

@SebAusFR
Great! My Shepard also wanted to save the Geth from the Reapers. Legion helped her to understand them

Some Jane's pics

Modifié par Jane Shepard, 24 juillet 2012 - 04:05 .

[Tup3x]

Conrad Verner is such a creeper. If he would have been single, he would be stalker for sure.








One more week freedom and then slavery starts at work... Time to start to adapt.

[OT]
I've been testing out the new NVIDIA A New Dawn tech demo.

Dynamic hair by the way. I wonder how long it will take to see this kind of detail in games. Ten years maybe...
[/OT]

Modifié par Tup3xi, 24 juillet 2012 - 04:22 .

[SaturnRing]

Jane Shepard wrote...

@SaturnRing
Awesome story! I'm so happy to see Deirdre! I think to translate Jane's story a bit later

ome Jane's pics

I really appreciate your comment. I'm so glad you like it. I can't wait to read about Jane.

[SaturnRing]

Audience wrote...
@ SaturnRing
Good read, though the lack of paragraphs threw me off a bit at the beginning. =P
Looking forward to reading part 2!

I'm really sorry about that. I'll try to correct that for part 2. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[SaturnRing]

Tup3xi wrote...


I've been testing out the new NVIDIA A New Dawn tech demo.

Dynamic hair by the way. I wonder how long it will take to see this kind of detail in games. Ten years maybe...
[/OT]

Oh, wow. I like that. What is it ?
According to some game dev, yes roughly 10 yrs.

[Tup3x]

She's a (big boobed ) fairy called Dawn from NVIDIA's tech demo and that's a screenshot I took. Last time she appeared in tech demo when GeForce FX cards were around.

Modifié par Tup3xi, 24 juillet 2012 - 05:16 .

[SaturnRing]

Tup3xi wrote...

She's a (big boobed ) fairy called Dawn from NVIDIA's tech demo and that's a screenshot I took. Last time she appeared in tech demo when GeForce FX cards were around.

She's cool. I like her general look(future DA or Elder Scroll games). Odd way anatomic. speaking to show  graphic card upgrade power tho. Love the pics of Tiia "talking" to Conrad. I like him - he was awesome in ME2. 
 

[Tup3x]

SaturnRing wrote...

Tup3xi wrote...

She's a (big boobed ) fairy called Dawn from NVIDIA's tech demo and that's a screenshot I took. Last time she appeared in tech demo when GeForce FX cards were around.

She's cool. I like her general look(future DA or Elder Scroll games). Odd way anatomic. speaking to show  graphic card upgrade power tho. Love the pics of Tiia "talking" to Conrad. I like him - he was awesome in ME2. 
 

I'm some ways he reminded me of Glarthir when I first spotted him. Thank God that he wasn't as crazy, well... Assuming that you didn't let him to go into rampage...

Still have lots of things to do before doing other side missions and finishing the Pinnacle Station (never played it before on older playthroughs).



I actually just realized that Titan X is much closer to ME2 and ME3 camo that I use for her armour compared to Ursa.

Modifié par Tup3xi, 24 juillet 2012 - 05:45 .

[razviolet]

 

raziel1980 wrote...
@razviolet : it is a texmod, I'm using.... it makes him look more like his ME 2 iteration. I found out by searchign for mods for ME 1 on google.  The armor...yes, you noticed...well, it's the phantom armor...no better armor for the Turrian badass sniper of our squad. 

The stripe on his chin is a bit weird but the paint does stand out a lot more on his face. Of course I noticed the armor...It looks awesome with all its glowing red lights.

"three? No--four!" 

@adneate: Where did you find that texmod for ME1? I would love to use it to make my Jane Shepard look more like her ME3 counterpart. 

SaturnRing wrote...
Oh, no. Nothing like that. I was thinking more like Armor/weapons dlcs; maybe a few side missions - that would answer a few plot holes and bring more closure. Those would pretty much benefit everyone really. And like i said i'm not opposed to romantic dlcs - specially for Sam and Diana. I would'nt mind more available NPC hooking up together for example.

A romance DLC wouldn't be a bad thing but I would take a plot fulfilling one first, something more on the reapers origins or something to do with their psyche. Bioware already spoiled their 'unknowable' status so why not take it all the way?

Rikketik wrote...
 

She looks scary in that pic. I love it:wub:

@LadyAly: I'm glad you like my sheps! Poor Chiara losing Thane, losing a loved one is always hard.

@SaturnRing: In the first half I would suggest longer or conjoined sentences to show a relaxed atmosphere. The shortness of them makes the scenes feel intense and a little choppy where they don't need to be. Also, you might want to use more descriptions instead of facts, the old 'Showing vs. Telling' debate. For example: "Her delicate features made her seem almost out of place. She was as beautiful as she was deadly" could be turned into something like: "Her round face and almond shaped eyes might have seemed out of place on a soldier but she could wield her prized MK 15 Drakkar with deadly precision." 

I Can't wait for part 2;)

@xbb1024: Ji Hyun has a spacer background, neat. I like how you fleshed out her parent's backgrounds and described how Shep came to be an engineer.

SebAusFR wrote...
Lots of updates!  and good ones, of course. I will comment/reply soon, but for now, priority to the story! (Razviolet is overtaking me, crap...)  

Over taking you? I don't even... Am I pumping out too many awesome sheps for you to handle? 

I loved reading about Kyla's thoughts on the geth and quarian conflict.

Dragon_Claw wrote...
Just saw this great piece!    

The background is amazing but...It looks like Shep's armor has melted into her skin, Ow! Plus, she looks super scrawny. I can only picture shep with an athletic build since she carries around heavy weapons and armor all day while dodging bullets and falling through floors.

Tup3xi wrote...
Dynamic hair by the way. I wonder how long it will take to see this kind of detail in games. Ten years maybe... 

 
Obviously, it's already possible. The only issue is the time and cost of creating such detailed graphics. 

I don't know why I like this pic so much.


Random flycam.

[SaturnRing]

@Tup: Pinnacle station really. I did take me a long time to download it too tho. I liked it. You know camo and me: If i know where the next mission is, i'll attempt to match the pattern to the topograhy. But i generally use 3 patterns that i preset: an urban(that is pretty close to urs); a woodland; the last is a desert - I actually have 3 different settings for desert including one that matches Garrus's.

[SaturnRing]

razviolet wrote...


@SaturnRing: In the first half I would suggest longer or conjoined sentences to show a relaxed atmosphere. The shortness of them makes the scenes feel intense and a little choppy where they don't need to be. Also, you might want to use more descriptions instead of facts, the old 'Showing vs. Telling' debate. For example: "Her delicate features made her seem almost out of place. She was as beautiful as she was deadly" could be turned into something like: "Her round face and almond shaped eyes might have seemed out of place on a soldier but she could wield her prized MK 15 Drakkar with deadly precision." 

I Can't wait for part 2;)

Random flycam.

Thanks for the advice. I'll take any help i can get. writing isn't my cup of tea(reading is), but i'd like to do something special for my canon. Glad u liked it.
Like that pic.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 24 juillet 2012 - 06:04 .

[SaturnRing]

xbb1024 wrote...

Hi all, thanks to everyone who liked my Ember Shepard. She is my main Shepard, and the one closest to my femshep from ME2. Now I’d like to introduce Ji Hyun Shepard (renamed from Jin Hyun), combat engineer.
From as early as she can remember, Ji Hyun Shepard has always loved gadgets. Ji Hyun started life aboard an Alliance deep space research and engineering station, where her mother Colonel Hannah Shepard was stationed. Her father was a neuro-computing scientist who, despite the widespread animosity to artificial intelligence throughout the galaxy, always believed that the natural laws that brought civilization and prosperity to organic life would eventually evolve in synthetic life as well. Ji Hyun was fascinated by her father and the other scientists, but also drew inspiration from her mother’s directness and practicality.



Ji Hyun enrolled in the Alliance Academy as an engineering cadet. She excelled in all of her fields of study, but showed exceptional talent in informatics and tactical battlefield awareness. After graduating with honors, Ji Hyun was offered a non-combatant role as an information warfare officer but insisted on having some field experience like her mother, and joined a Marine Expeditionary unit as a combat engineer instead. Her first deployment was Akuze – which was a disaster. Her entire unit was wiped out except for Shepard, who only survived to reach the landing pad because of a quickly improvised vibration dampening field she constructed out of her kinetic shields. The episode changed Shepard, teaching her to trust her survival instincts as much as her tech.
Ji Hyun understands the importance of science and knowledge, but also respects the responsibility to use it for the betterment of all life, whatever its form. She harbors a deep distrust of Cerberus for their involvement at Akuze, and although she would have preferred to study the Collector base it was more important to deny it from Cerberus.

 
She has a really cool backstory; i particularly like your take on Akuze. EDI must really approves of her views as far as AI research is involved. They pretty close to some of Isaac Asimov theories about AI(which i like).
Ji Hyun is so pretty btw. 

Modifié par SaturnRing, 24 juillet 2012 - 06:23 .

[TheMarshal]

Tup3xi wrote...

[OT]
I've been testing out the new NVIDIA A New Dawn tech demo.

Dynamic hair by the way. I wonder how long it will take to see this kind of detail in games. Ten years maybe...
[/OT]

Nice!  We'd probably be able to see it in games in the next 2-4 years if consoles weren't a factor.  But who knows?  Maybe the next generation of consoles will be able to handle this kind of thing.

[VaLkyR_Anubis]

@SaturnRing, thank you very much! Glad you like this one! And keep writing such interesting things!

@Tup3xi, it is actually possible to develop games with such level of quality, however as razviolet said, time and cost are a matter. Regarding this, the hardware requirements aren't that low, according to Nvidia, probably pretty high, but it makes sense at all. Nevertheless, if I may ask, what are your system specs? Just wanna satisfy my curiosity. In the end, I love the new Dawn!!!

@razviolet, always a marvellous pleasure to take a look at Mercy!

Modifié par VaLkyR_Anubis, 24 juillet 2012 - 06:48 .

[Tup3x]

razviolet wrote...

Tup3xi wrote...
Dynamic hair by the way. I wonder how long it will take to see this kind of detail in games. Ten years maybe... 

 
Obviously, it's already possible. The only issue is the time and cost of creating such detailed graphics.

It has been possible for ages. It is more than doable in real time for multiple characters at lower fidelity, for PC's that is. I remember when NVIDIA's Nalu demo was released for GeForce 6800 series cards eight years ago, it ran nicely and the hair looked great. Now GTX 680 is something like 20-30 times faster. But for example PS3 has GeForce 7800 GT/GTX grade GPU (GTX is about 50% faster than 6800 Ultra) so rendering the hair and other stuff would be too much. The actual developing cost isn't that big deal, processing power is.

@VaLkyR_Anubis
I have Core i7 3770K @ 4,3 GHz, 16 GB 1600 MHz ram @ 9-9-9-24-1T, GeForce GTX 680, Samsung 830 for OS and other software, 3xSamsung F1 1TB drives in RAID0 for games and so on.

SaturnRing wrote...

@Tup: Pinnacle station really. I did
take me a long time to download it too tho. I liked it. You know camo
and me: If i know where the next mission is, i'll attempt to match the
pattern to the topograhy. But i generally use 3 patterns that i preset:
an urban(that is pretty close to urs); a woodland; the last is a desert -
I actually have 3 different settings for desert including one that
matches Garrus's.

I really do need to finish it. I obviously just stick with the urban camo, after all it does pretty decent job overall considering the locations.

Modifié par Tup3xi, 24 juillet 2012 - 06:55 .

[SaturnRing]

Graceyn wrote...


@SaturnRing:  Thanks, hope you keep reading.  Over time it gets (in my opinion) considerably better.  Longer, but better .

I had a great time reaading Horizon and a purpose. Specially Horizon both his reaction and the letter she wrote to him were priceless. I didn't follow your advice to to chapter 27 though. But i'll get to it.

@VaLkyR_Anubis: Thanks a lot. I'll keep at it. On the subject of graphics, the upcomming Watch Dogs has to be the most impressive. I woud go for some sort of ME sequel that looks like that.

Modifié par SaturnRing, 24 juillet 2012 - 07:06 .