Dry Ice on Mars

inkydigit · June 16, 2011, 04:14:01 AM

excellent, maybe some LGM, next?

Dune · June 16, 2011, 05:28:35 AM

What's LGM? Next one will be including a polar cap, rendering now.

inkydigit · June 16, 2011, 05:37:43 AM

sorry, it was a 'tongue in cheek' comment, LGM are 'little green men'...I am looking forward to seeing the progress...
cheers
J

Kadri · June 16, 2011, 07:23:36 AM

Looks nice , Dune!
Lowering the ice high-scale ? Maybe a little artistic license and putting the Lander half in a sand dune?

If i live long enough we will see pictures from the real Viking lander maybe some day. Wonder how it looks now really!

ajcgi · June 16, 2011, 12:22:06 PM

Liking the ice, especially the little bits all broken off on the left hand side of screen there.

Dune · June 17, 2011, 02:26:17 AM

I think Mars has a more dense atmosphere than I depicted here, but I like the clarity somehow, and the polar cap nicely glows. It's all imagination anyway...

Only the ice is a bit weird now, might want to have another go at it.

choronr · June 17, 2011, 09:09:56 PM

Quote from: Dune on June 17, 2011, 02:26:17 AM
I think Mars has a more dense atmosphere than I depicted here, but I like the clarity somehow, and the polar cap nicely glows. It's all imagination anyway...

Only the ice is a bit weird now, might want to have another go at it.

I like this one; and, wondering if because of the high CO2 content in the atmo, whether or not some vapor mists would emanate from the ice.

Dune · June 18, 2011, 03:07:25 AM

It's the dust storms that lighten up above the ice, but perhaps there are no dust storms across the polar cap, but I liked to try the 'radiance of light' out.

Redwolf · June 18, 2011, 09:55:40 AM

nice atmo dune, I think that will blend well with my ALIEN project

dduane · June 24, 2011, 08:00:36 AM

A really gorgeous image.

Dune, what were you using for the little rocks & stuff in the foreground? They look great.

Best! D.

Dune · June 24, 2011, 09:00:09 AM

You need to make a moonscape, right? The basic ground is just a billowed PF, with some color fractals added after compute terrain, hardly any more displacement. The rocks near the ice are a set of fake stones on a surface layer that is set to favor depressions, and the ice is on a layer set to displacement intersection, with some ridged displacement added.