High! ;-)

Coridon Henshaw schrieb:

> Yadgar <j.b### [at] ndhnet> wrote in news:3BE17DEF.FC307C13@ndh.net:
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> > Is your planet intended to have an atmosphere? If yes, then perhaps a
> > narrow seam of media along the horizon could be appropriate!
>
> <cough> Look closely at the limb on the left hand side.  Also look for the
> whispy dust clouds in the lower right.  The entire planet is contained in a
> media.

Yes, I see... but the moon is still completely featureless, as if it was
engulfed in a global dust storm, like Mars was back in 1971 at the arrival of
Mariner 9 (and also this year was... hoping the dust settles in the coming
months, otherwise bad luck for Odyssey Orbiter!)... sorry, but I just can't
keep back the astronomy/space flight geek in such a context!

By the way, which image map did you use for the planet? A real map of Mars?

> Anyhow, here's revision 2 -- at 1024x768x24bpp.
>
>  [Image]

The ship looks wicked... are the groups of three blue triangles on the hull
simply ambient 1 finish or is there more about them?

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Francois Labreque schrieb:

> Yadgar wrote:
>
> > Coridon Henshaw schrieb:
> >
> >
> >>Any comments?
> >>
> >> [Image]
> >>
> >
> > Really cool... but obviously it is not Mars (Mars has only two tiny,
> > asteroid-like moons), but some other, extra-solar desert world - perhaps
> > Frank Herbert's Arrakis?
>
> Arrakis had (has?, will have?) two moons as well.
>

Yes, but both are large enough to be spherical - which means at least 400 km
in diameter, while Deimos and Phobos are only about 8 and 20 km large!

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Yadgar <j.b### [at] ndhnet> wrote in news:3BE### [at] ndhnet:

> By the way, which image map did you use for the planet? A real map of
> Mars? 

I posted most of the source a few days back.  The planet is an image map of 
mars with some fake normal effects added.

> The ship looks wicked... are the groups of three blue triangles on the
> hull simply ambient 1 finish or is there more about them?

They're just rgb <0,0,1> ambient 1.  I don't have the patience to use 
anything more complicated on little logos.

Anyhow, here's revision 3.  I've added some texturing on the moon, a little 
lens flare, and increased the lighting on the ship.  This image took 8 
hours to render on an 866MHz P3.

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Coridon Henshaw schrieb:

> Yadgar <j.b### [at] ndhnet> wrote in news:3BE### [at] ndhnet:
>
> > By the way, which image map did you use for the planet? A real map of
> > Mars?
>
> I posted most of the source a few days back.  The planet is an image map of
> mars with some fake normal effects added.
>
> > The ship looks wicked... are the groups of three blue triangles on the
> > hull simply ambient 1 finish or is there more about them?
>
> They're just rgb <0,0,1> ambient 1.  I don't have the patience to use
> anything more complicated on little logos.
>
> Anyhow, here's revision 3.  I've added some texturing on the moon, a little
> lens flare, and increased the lighting on the ship.  This image took 8
> hours to render on an 866MHz P3.
>
>  [Image]

Cool, now the moon looks really like a moon (texture of Earth's moon?)... and
I like the subtle rectangular structures (normals?) on the ship's hull. Is the
lensflare positioned at the actual position of the light source?

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Dear Coridon and Folks,

Very simple, clean, and elegant...I like this a lot.
Simple is good.

Blessings,
          Brendan

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Yadgar <j.b### [at] ndhnet> wrote in news:3BE58E2F.391F91F3@ndh.net:

> Cool, now the moon looks really like a moon (texture of Earth's
> moon?)...

It's an image map of Phobos, which is one of Mars' two moons.

> and I like the subtle rectangular structures (normals?) on
> the ship's hull.

Yes; the rectangular bits are from using cells as a normal pattern.  The 
rest of the hull texture is simply made with layers of bozo-marble bozo 
patterns with varying color maps.

> Is the lensflare positioned at the actual position of
> the light source?

No.  The light source is far offscreen on the right hand side.  The lens 
flare is purely decorative.  Indeed, a light at the lens flare wouldn't 
have any effect whatsoever on the visible portions of the scene.

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Very cool.

Pete

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