Neoo's Work in Progress thread

[neo0.]

There spherical idea sounds interesting. I will look into it. There is a lot to think about here and I will go over it soon, but the first question that comes to mind is where would I put the engines?

CTN, are you proposing some sort of satellite generators that orbit around the ship? Because that sounds really neat. Maybe like something that detatches itself from the ship, collects hydrogen (for anti matter reactions), and then docks so it is safe while it is converting the hydrogen into anti matter.

[StompinTom]

Let's keep this on topic, yes? Just some courtesy, otherwise we'll turn into a Blenderartists.org-type forum.

Neo0: Stick with the idea you've got. You have absolutely no completed projects to show for all the work you've done since you started here. It's been said before: finish what you start, THEN move onto the next idea.

[neo0.]

Let's keep this on topic, yes? Just some courtesy, otherwise we'll turn into a Blenderartists.org-type forum.

Neo0: Stick with the idea you've got. You have absolutely no completed projects to show for all the work you've done since you started here. It's been said before: finish what you start, THEN move onto the next idea.

Very true. I completely agree. Its just that this project has been sort of a trial and error thing where I look at the design and decide whether it looks sufficiently huge.

CTN, are you proposing some sort of satellite generators that orbit around the ship? Because that sounds really neat. Maybe like something that detatches itself from the ship, collects hydrogen (for anti matter reactions), and then docks so it is safe while it is converting the hydrogen into anti matter.

The biggest issue seems like it's gonna be air. Air can be recylced (some machine to remove the co2) but how long would that last? Where would you find more oxygen in space? Water could be stored in giant tanks. It shouldn't be too hard to store enough water. A water tank that is 4 cubic miles could hold several trillion gallons, but that would only be enough for 4 days.

[CTZn]

ENSLAVER: thank you for the compliment

neo0.: Tom is right ! Yup, I was talking stations clustering. Engines ? wehr...

[neo0.]

Anti matter would work really well. After some googling, only 150 pounds of it or so, and you'd have enough energy for all 6 billion people for the entire day.

Here is the new design.

[StompinTom]

I think that's the farthest you've ever gotten. Keep going.

[neo0.]

I think im happy with the basic shape of the ship. Now comes the hard part. The small details.

[galinette]

Before making lots of detail, you may start by using a bump like this one:

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/5858 ... xture1.png

Material should be somewhat metallic

[neo0.]

Thanks for the map! I'll look into it.

EDIT : Sketchup is giving me texture artifacts

[neo0.]

Progress. No more blue painted look.

[fused]

That looks pretty stylish

Stars are way over exposed tho

[neo0.]

Yeah. It seems to be related to the EXR. It's the only space exr that I can find, but all the stars in the map function like an individual light source, so they glow way too much in the render.

I've seen a lot of renders based on real world renders and indigo excels at this. They look fantastic and one day I hope for my renders to look that good, but I hope that indigo has some more features for space scenes. Planet generator (maybe part of the exporter anyway) and maybe a starfield generator. This could be a shader I guess (if possible.) It would created physically accurate stars with different apparant magnitude and maybe even randomly shaped/colored dust cloud. Maybe even procedural nebulas one day.

Here's another render. Close up of the engines ~a couple dozen miles tall. The ring in the center is floating, but it would magnetically suspended somehow. In total around 6 engines. Top speed would be relatively slow. Would take a couple weeks to clear the solar system.

[StompinTom]

Yeah. It seems to be related to the EXR. It's the only space exr that I can find, but all the stars in the map function like an individual light source, so they glow way too much in the render.

I've seen a lot of renders based on real world renders and indigo excels at this. They look fantastic and one day I hope for my renders to look that good, but I hope that indigo has some more features for space scenes. Planet generator (maybe part of the exporter anyway) and maybe a starfield generator. This could be a shader I guess (if possible.) It would created physically accurate stars with different apparant magnitude and maybe even randomly shaped/colored dust cloud. Maybe even procedural nebulas one day.

I think most of that is already possible with ISL. Nebulae can be simulated with procedural noise functions.

You just need to tone down your EXR, it's too bright and dirty. If you look at any space images, there is a very strong contrast between the sunlit areas and shadow areas on objects. Making a directional light source such as a sun would help greatly.

[neo0.]

Nice. well I'll see what I can do. A starfield/dust clouds based on ISL would probably work much better, but I'll see what I can do with my exr.

I don't know, would it be possible to add something that could tell indigo to "use this procedurally generated background image for lighting"?

[galinette]

Just reduce gain of tonemapping!