Mars Rover using Nasa 3d assets

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A build showing the Nasa Perseverance Rover on Mars, inspired by the Yahoo XR tutorial videos.

After the BlenderGuru tutorials, these are a disappointment. Information density is quite low, and the practical aspects are quite hard to follow.

The Mars images are open source from Nasa:

For the sky, I used the Add on: Lighting: Dynamic sky.

Mars sky is quite weird, and the Dynamic Sky only gives a vague approximation. I used these articles as references:

It’s still not quite right, so will continue working on it.

Things to solve:

  • Need to pass it through compositor for sharpening.
  • Text is not legible when zoomed in.
    – Also how to change the text colour, or stop it showing through the plane?
  • Continue working on sky colour and lighting from the sun
  • Make 1:1 and 9:16 images as well for Instagram stories.
    – Could add different camera types, and save as default Blender space?
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“I used these articles as references:”
Use those:

There shouldn’t be so such visible clouds. They should be barely visible if any at all.
Also take in mind, that those photos sometimes have exaggerated colors to better show something, so mighnt not be accurate to what human eye would see.

For the sky I would recommend You to use actual photo as backdrop (eg from Panorama or 360) from Curiosity or Perseverance.

Maybe even with some hill on horizon.
Like i did it on render on bottom:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/D5V4AA

Other thing, maybe change composition of the shot. Currently it looks like Mars was planet/moon in background, and not just ilustration.
So maybe make it bigger, slightly of terrain. And change it that lightning of planet wont mach lightning on scene.

Not really.

You can make multiple cameras, to have them ~in different location with different field of view.
But image resolution and proportions is set separately here:

obraz

But You can set it once, and make preset out of it:
obraz

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Thanks so much for your helpful advice! And lots of great suggestions.

I ended up using the clouds and dynamic sky just to get something into the sky while I figure out a better way of doing things.

Your work on art station is awesome. Great job!

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landscape look totally flat

may be from the photos you can use soft Materialise

to get other maps like diffuse AO Nor bump ect.

and get a more 3D effect for the top soil - landscape

looking nice may be add the helicopter flying in background

happy bl

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Thank you for taking tome to offer your nice suggestions.

Yes, it does all look too flat! I will check out your suggestions and see what I can do. :slight_smile:

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see this thread
Ornate Cutlery - Artwork / Works in Progress - Blender Artists Community

good example
might be usefull

happy bl

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Oh! I was looking at that the other day but did not connect the dots…

… now I have something else to think about! That’s the trouble with Blender - it is an infinite learning journey!

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let us know if it works
i have not try it but looks very promising

have fun
i would also like to make some Mars landscape
might test that if i get time this weekend

happy bl

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i tried materialize with a pic from NASA mars rover
but i cannot make a Normal map

i can get the bump map

any tips how i can get a normal map from that diffuse image ?

thanks
happy bl