The ship designs show similarities to those 1960s spaceships from the 
Perry Rhodan universe.

But indeed, off-world mining is indeed a very interesting topic. For 
some time to come, mining equipment will still look similar to the one 
you depicted in your artwork, and what we have today.

Eventually, resource gathering will be different. The German X7 
Wendelstein fusion reactor might have opened the door to such new 
technology: out of resource material (gases in this particular case), 
through fusion the Wendelstein produces vast amounts of energy. The 
fusion of different materials can also lead to the production (fusion) 
of materials that otherwise are hard to come by. I believe, the fusion 
technology can be used for energy production, but with changed 
parameters also for creation of resources.

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On 5/9/19 10:22 PM, Hj. Malthaner wrote:
> I had the idea to make a scene of a spaceship, landed on some alien 
> planet, with machinery around performing mining operations.

It's been a while. I felt stuck with the scene, worked on other things, 
but recently came back and tried to improve it. Many small steps, much 
trial and error, but I think this is good enough to be called the final 
version now.

https://www.deviantart.com/antarasol/art/Azurite-Surface-Mining-864445059

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Op 01/01/2021 om 21:49 schreef Hj. Malthaner:
> On 5/9/19 10:22 PM, Hj. Malthaner wrote:
>> I had the idea to make a scene of a spaceship, landed on some alien 
>> planet, with machinery around performing mining operations.
> 
> It's been a while. I felt stuck with the scene, worked on other things, 
> but recently came back and tried to improve it. Many small steps, much 
> trial and error, but I think this is good enough to be called the final 
> version now.
> 
> https://www.deviantart.com/antarasol/art/Azurite-Surface-Mining-864445059
> 

Yes, a nice one indeed. If I may give a comment: what I miss is a 
suggestion of atmosphere. There is the exhaust of the mother ship and 
there is a zeppelin, but the planet seems strangely bare of air. To 
remain simple, a bit of ground fog would already help a lot; if you feel 
ready for the challenge, a (thin) media would be great. It would give 
that atmospheric haze with dimmer horizons which would also give depth 
to the landscape.

Happy New Year!

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On 1/2/21 8:30 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Op 01/01/2021 om 21:49 schreef Hj. Malthaner:
>> On 5/9/19 10:22 PM, Hj. Malthaner wrote:
>>> I had the idea to make a scene of a spaceship, landed on some alien 
>>> planet, with machinery around performing mining operations.
>>
>> Many small 
>> steps, much trial and error, but I think this is good enough to be 
>> called the final version now.
>>
>> https://www.deviantart.com/antarasol/art/Azurite-Surface-Mining-864445059
>>
> 
> Yes, a nice one indeed. If I may give a comment: what I miss is a 
> suggestion of atmosphere. There is the exhaust of the mother ship and 
> there is a zeppelin, but the planet seems strangely bare of air. To 
> remain simple, a bit of ground fog would already help a lot; if you feel 
> ready for the challenge, a (thin) media would be great. It would give 
> that atmospheric haze with dimmer horizons which would also give depth 
> to the landscape.
> 
> Happy New Year!

Thanks and happy new year as well!

I had been using the fog feature in the early versions, but it seemed to 
cause troubles with radiosity and light coming from the sky sphere, so I 
removed it. But you are right, a media should work fine. So far the time 
for tracing the scene is moderate, I could try and see how it works. The 
planet isn't supposed to have a lot of atmosphere but some dust and haze 
surely would help to give an impression of depth.

The zeppelin was kinda artistic freedom, wouldn't work well in a thin 
atmosphere I think. But NASA actually suggested evacuated zeppelins for 
Mars exploration.

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On 7/18/19 4:06 PM, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> The ship designs show similarities to those 1960s spaceships from the 
> Perry Rhodan universe.

Perry Rhoday was likely my first contact with science fiction and very 
certainly defined my views on how science fiction should be. So, even 
that I didn't intend any references in this scene, it seems the 
influence is still there :)

> But indeed, off-world mining is indeed a very interesting topic. For 
> some time to come, mining equipment will still look similar to the one 
> you depicted in your artwork, and what we have today.

That's good to hear that I didn't stretch imagination too much here.

> I believe, the fusion 
> technology can be used for energy production, but with changed 
> parameters also for creation of resources.

Since we were talking about the Perry Rhodan universe already, I can 
confirm that fusion was used there as a means to produce all heavier 
elements from hydrogen and helium. Not one of the cheap or easy means, 
but some of the techno-crazy installations had such converters.

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On 1/2/21 8:30 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:

> Yes, a nice one indeed. If I may give a comment: what I miss is a 
> suggestion of atmosphere. There is the exhaust of the mother ship and 
> there is a zeppelin, but the planet seems strangely bare of air. To 
> remain simple, a bit of ground fog would already help a lot; if you feel 
> ready for the challenge, a (thin) media would be great. It would give 
> that atmospheric haze with dimmer horizons which would also give depth 
> to the landscape.

That was a good suggestion, thank you! As mentioned, fog didn't work so 
well, but a spherical media did. I've only added a very little haze, but 
it seems to improve the balance of the scene a lot. Render times 
doubled, but I can live with that. Thanks again!

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On 5/13/19 6:23 PM, Leroy wrote:
> "Hj. Malthaner" <han### [at] nospamgmxde> wrote:
>> I had the idea to make a scene of a spaceship, landed on some alien
>> planet, with machinery around performing mining operations.

> Great work. 

Thanks!

 > The only question I have can you animate this scene?

In theory yes. It'll be very complicated to deduce all motions from a 
single clock value by formulas. The game breaker are most likely the 
render times. So actually, no.

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Le 2021-01-02 à 15:52, Hj. Malthaner a écrit :
> On 1/2/21 8:30 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 
>> Yes, a nice one indeed. If I may give a comment: what I miss is a 
>> suggestion of atmosphere. There is the exhaust of the mother ship and 
>> there is a zeppelin, but the planet seems strangely bare of air. To 
>> remain simple, a bit of ground fog would already help a lot; if you 
>> feel ready for the challenge, a (thin) media would be great. It would 
>> give that atmospheric haze with dimmer horizons which would also give 
>> depth to the landscape.
> 
> That was a good suggestion, thank you! As mentioned, fog didn't work so 
> well, but a spherical media did. I've only added a very little haze, but 
> it seems to improve the balance of the scene a lot. Render times 
> doubled, but I can live with that. Thanks again!
> 

Yes, better.
That dust cloud around the digger's wheel is a nice touch. It show that 
work is underway.

Alain

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Hj. Malthaner wrote on 02/01/2021 21:52:
> On 1/2/21 8:30 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 
>> Yes, a nice one indeed. If I may give a comment: what I miss is a 
>> suggestion of atmosphere. There is the exhaust of the mother ship and 
>> there is a zeppelin, but the planet seems strangely bare of air. To 
>> remain simple, a bit of ground fog would already help a lot; if you 
>> feel ready for the challenge, a (thin) media would be great. It would 
>> give that atmospheric haze with dimmer horizons which would also give 
>> depth to the landscape.
> 
> That was a good suggestion, thank you! As mentioned, fog didn't work so 
> well, but a spherical media did. I've only added a very little haze, but 
> it seems to improve the balance of the scene a lot. Render times 
> doubled, but I can live with that. Thanks again!
> 

A nice scene even in the night version.
Paolo

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