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Ponies Online! - April 13-14

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I was planning to make a quick wallpaper for my laptop, so that’s why I choose Luna since it made more sense to put her in a dark night environment and the blue color scheme will not be as distracting compared with other colors. As you might have noticed, the composition is kinda heavy on the right since most of my stuff in my desktop are mostly on the left, so it was done on purpose to balance things out.
 
I also tried out the water reflections but unfortunately it will come out as a smudged abomination if you choose to export the project as a poster, so what I did instead was to export the project as image sequence, that way reflections were visible alongside with the bloom but the resolution is only limited to 4K (GabeN why). Also keep in mind that the reflections aren’t perfect due to the limitations of the Source engine.
 
Inspired heavily by this song.
 
Made with Source Filmmaker, rendered at 4K resolution with 1024 DOF samples  
Detailed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015  
Color Enhanced with Adobe Lightroom CC 2015
 
Materials and assets:  
Map: sfm_paul from https://sfmlab.com/item/686/  
S1 Luna: https://www.deviantart.com/sindroom/art/SFM-Gmod-Princess-Luna-S1-752298128  
Fireflies: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=390082365&searchtext=  
Trees: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=449966860&searchtext=tree  
Moon: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=541892062&searchtext=moon  
Resident Evil 4 House: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=938955073&searchtext=house  
Fish from CS:GO  
Canoe from HL2  
Lantern from TF2  
Dock from CS:GO

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Castellan Fyor
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -

For the Emperor!
@CALVEEN  
Valve has a bad history with people taking their stuff. Half-life has this big leak where someone released it’s code, and all of a sudden half-life clones appeared. (the dude was arrested, of course.)
CALVEEN
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Equality - In our state, we do not stand out.
Artist -

Unleashed.
@Luna  
Agreed on that. There are way so many features in SFM that they kept it hidden for some reason (probably so that we couldn’t make something better than theirs). Source engine is old, and apparently Valve is just too lazy now to release anything other than a stupid card game. 9 years in development my ass lol
Luna
Luna - For Patreon supporters
Woona - Derpi Supporter
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -

Luna Best Pony~
@CALVEEN  
The Source Engine has dumbass limits that are either hacked (circumvented in a hacky way) or cleverly hidden. Also it has disgusting lighting and support for models… i’m not just saying it, I’m actually a game dev who worked with Source for years and switched to UE4 as soon as 4.0 was released.
CALVEEN
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Equality - In our state, we do not stand out.
Artist -

Unleashed.
@Luna  
Thanks for the advice! I was planning to make some pieces on Blender, but I have to learn more about the software before doing so. For now, I want to see how far I could push SFM to make this kind of stuff ;)