Green Mars: update on page 6

[Tangled-Universe]

Yeah this is simply great stuff.

I like the last one very much too. Just looks very feasible and plausible.

[TheBadger]

I'm a fan of Star Trek, so maybe the glowing terraforming effect of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan would be nice

I like the films too. But I may have missed what you mean. Do you have a screen shot from the net you can post? Sounds interesting.

[Mahnmut]

I don´t remember it properly either. (the Star Trek effect).
But I heard someone talking about crater lakes, so here is mine:

Thanks TU for the inspiration!
J

[Kadri]

One of the better looking ones but music was different in the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1r37zIBOQ
and making of :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9qSLYK5q4
It was 31 years ago...
I was amazed when i saw that sequence at that time and waited for years to do such things on computers.

Your renders are great Mahnmut .

[Mahnmut]

Thanks for enlightening me. I will have to watch the old Star-trek movies again.
Until then:
A little animated Gif. For Badger, because somehow I got the impression that he likes animations!

Although it seems I am not gifted as a cameraman, I am quite content with my marsscape. Especially as it came out like that after I only worked on the craterlake.
The strange frames at the beginning an end show the Mola-data without makeup.
Enyoy the bumpy ride!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7414/9227788862_23c7a7eaa8_o.gif

Cheers,
J

[Jo Kariboo]

Awesome work !!!

[TheBadger]

And I do like it! 

I like the hint of blue and the silver crystal like reflection in the waters as the camera gets up into the air (or whatever the atmo is made from)

I hope in time you will make a little animation of all your versions of mars at high res! And edit together a little movie.

[Mahnmut]

Thanks again!
I think that metallic sheen on the water is mainly a product of the 256 color gif.
Well, here comes what I consider to be my best Mars render until now. Can you spot the rover?


This is near Protonilus Mensae, looking towards Crater Moreaux (the white depression near the horizon)
And as always, reality is stranger than fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protonilus_Mensae
And that´s without makeup, just molamap+viking colour, spheres are 500m radius:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5500/9229456247_3f99e741a1_o.jpg
Cheers
J

[TheBadger]

I see a very nice terrain. No rover though?

[Mahnmut]

dandelO reminded me to come back to Mars.
In contrast to his great procedural aproach to victoria crater, I owe most of my images merits to the great datasets provided by NASA and ESA (MOLA, HRSC and HiRise ), not much procedural creativity involved yet.




Cheers,
Jan

[dandelO]

Love the colouring and terrain features in the last shot, Jan, looks really nice. Atmosphere maybe a little blue/dark, from what I've gathered from recent true-colour Mars imagary.
The crater I made isn't supposed to be a carbon copy of Victoria, by the way. I just used it as reference really to get an idea on diameter/depth/features on a real scaled terrain/atmo, which actually isn't correct at all if I think about it, since the planet still has an Earth radius! Never mind, still worked out fine for a night's tinkering.
And, ahhh, of course your atmosphere is blue, I'm forgetting the title of this thread.

[Bjur]

your freakin planet stuff! 

[gregtee]

This is really impressive stuff. Keep them coming!

[Jo Kariboo]

Excellent again !!! I very like the last one !!!   

[dandelO]

I've went back to reference more colour corrected rover images and you're definitely right with your blue atmosphere, Jan, contrary to my last post. Think I have a more convincing setup now than in my last images. The problem I was finding was with the linking of the bluesky and decay values that TG does automatically. Anyway, I think I'm back on the right track now, scrapped my original atmosphere and started afresh with pretty much a default atmo node with reduced saturation.
Cheers for starting back up this thread, it's taken me off that wrong path I was on earlier with unnecessarily changing density and decay colours. Update later...