Mars descent

[dandelO]

Fantastic amount of detail!

Roll on the reel...

[FrankB]

Amazing, Jon. We knew TG2 could do this, but it's great to actually see this decent depicted in steps. And it's obvious that this is some great quality work at the same time!

Cheers,
Frank

[domdib]

Very impressive. Look forward to the animation, if you can share it.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

the Hetzen lander...

this looks really good, excellent work.

now make a terraformed version..

[Volker Harun]

Good work!

[Hetzen]

Thanks guys, although I think there can be more eeked out of this scene. So please fire away with any suggestions.

how much of that is procedural and how much is original mars data?
I mean in terms of resolution?
And where can I get those for my green mars?

Hi Jan. There's a combination of bitmap projection to get the overal planet texture, and fractals as you get closer to the surface.

As for the dems, you have to download all the megt files from this site..

http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/geodata/mgs-m-mola-5-megdr-l3-v1/mgsl_300x/meg128/

You only need the files that start "megt". Then you have to use 3Dem to convert a square into a .ter file that you can use in TG. A little word of warning, there is some missing data in those dems that you have to patch in 3Dem before you export. It's one of the options in the program. You draw a bounding box around the whole area you are looking at, then press enter, and 3Dem will sort it out. I was getting all sorts of weird problems in TG from corrupt .ter before I worked out what was causing them.

You can get 3Dem from here..

http://www.terragen.org/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item490

Best of luck with your project.

Cheers

Jon

[Hetzen]

Oh, btw, I loved the Kim Stanley Robinson books Red, Green, Blue Mars. Being from an audio visual background, I really digged the titles.

[jbest]

Great level of detail and texturing. It must have taken some thinking to get the descent right Looking forward to the animation, and hope it doesn't take too long. How many frames do you think this will be?

Frame at 4300 m seems rather heavily hazy, but I don't think that will be very noticable in the animation.

[choronr]

Just plain outstanding Jon. I hope in our life time we all get to see man land here.

[freelancah]

Very impressive work, the detail holds wonderfully. Looking forward for the animation!

[ra]

Cool stuff! 

[schmeerlap]

Most of the superlatives have been used already, so:
Gets more "fandabidozi" as one descends to the surface. 
Love the terrain/surfacing.

John

[Mahnmut]

Thanks Hetzen!
Thats some big files, but what did I expect?
Until now I tused a 16k-bumpmap that used to be available at the celestia motherlode.
I will be busy with those for some time after my exams.
Yes, I also love Robinsons Mars-trilogy.
Just bought nearly everything else he wrote, and I am looking forward to reading it after my exams.
So much to do then ( and so much until then)
Maybe I will have to ask you for help concerning the placement of the ter-files, but not before November.
Til then, I wait patintly for your great animation!
Best Regards,
Jan

[Oshyan]

Looking very good! Kind of like the next generation of the very old Mars animation Matt did many years ago using a prototype of TG2: http://www.planetside.co.uk/content/view/36/38/

My one suggestion for improvement would be to add a more "dusty" look as all the real photos I've seen of Mars always seem to have dust deposited everywhere. Otherwise it's looking nice and can't wait to see it in motion.

- Oshyan

[cyphyr]

weird, a kinda involved spammer!