During my sporadic breaks from revision over the last week, I completed the shuttle bay I posted in the WIP and integrated it into the space station. The original grey theme of the station then looked unbelieveably boring, so I retextured, gave it a background, and added windows. Here’s the final results :
Very nice, I especially like the lighting in the back view. Perhaps you should add some ships flying around or something? Other than that, no crits. Good job.
I think you shold add some detail to the areas “under consturction”, like some planes that make the outer hull extend out over the superstructure beams, to give it a more unfinished look.
Overall I’d say “AWESOME”. Are you going to add the shuttle from 2001 as well?
Erufailon : It’s rendered with one of the current CVS versions, just 2 lamps on the main station…mmmm, raytracing… The panels on the main ring had to be rendered in 2.26 though, because there seems to be a bug with subsurfed objects in the CVS. Oh and the shuttle bay uses radiosity and a few very soft shadow lamps.
Arathorn, Hippie :
thegameboy : Yes, spaceships will be done, in a few weeks time I hope. Going to recreate the entire “Cosmic Waltz” from 2001 (minus scenes with people in).
milkman : I agree the lighting is too bright on the first picture, I shall darken it. What specifically looks odd about the Earth ? I’ll try and correct it if you tell me.
forcefield : Yes, I think I shall add some more stuff to the girders. It’s dangerously close to overloading my RAM though… 333,000 vertices (400,000 with subsurfing!)
mystery00 : drawing ? Hell no ! I did, however, find this most excellent site : http://www.starshipmodeler.com/2001/2001int.htm
Took ~16 hours to model (very liberal use of shift+D speeds things up lots) and texture, then I retextured it, didn’t take long at all, lighting is simple - nice sharp raytraced shadows from 2 suns.
I was thinking of posting this on CGtalk… should I bother ?
BIG question:
what is the prog used to do the panoramic view and how did you rander a 180 x 360 degree shot with panorama?
i’ deseparatingly try to do this sort of render for almost a month now.
Gabio : all instructions found here, it’s really really easy ! : http://cj.elysiun.com
But be aware the rotation settings for the second camera shot are incorrect, they should be : Rot x 90, Rot z -90.
this is amazing, really good details, and lighting…did u do a drawing first???
