Attack!

[Hannes]

Hi! Once again something not very typical for TG. I decided to render this in TG, because it renders high poly meshes without any problem.
I modeled this spaceship in 3ds Max, which was not very pleasing in the end phase, because Max took a lot of time to react on some parameter changes. After I imported it into TG it was a piece of cake. The finer details are created with textures, especially with opacity maps.
I don't remember where I got the plane model from. The texture maps have italian names, so Mille Grazie and credits to the creatore!!!

[Walli]

great!

[otakar]

Like a breath of fresh air. A bit reminiscent of Battlestar Galactica (if you don't look too closely at the planes)

[Tangled-Universe]

ID:4

[Hetzen]

Really nice mood to this. I like it a lot.

[j meyer]

Well done,looks like a lot of greeble work.

[inkydigit]

cinematic excellence!

[Dune]

Wow!  I really like the mood and the fact that you bring 'old' and 'new' together in a fascinating way. Great lighting as well.

[Oshyan]

Hah! Independence Day (movie) as if it happened in 1920?

- Oshyan

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i like the greeble work too,

Hah! Independence Day (movie) as if it happened in 1920?

- Oshyan

Independence Day Prequel, without that silly Mac OS / alien computer hacking stuff 

[masonspappy]

Well done,looks like a lot of greeble work.

That's exactly what I was thinking - "wow, lookit all the greebles!!"

[TheBadger]

Bad ass! <--- just to be clear, that means 

Animation on this one?

[Kadri]

Nice!

[Hannes]

Thank you, guys!
Yes, I had ID 4 in mind, when I made that scene.
I'd love to say that I planned to use those old airplanes, but in fact I had to use them, because I had no idea how to create realistic looking smoke trails from modern jet fighters. Anyway, I like the mix of old and new too.
@TheBadger: I think there's no chance for an animation at least in that resolution. The image took about 28 hours to render. And animating the planes in TG would be very painful.

[Bjur]

Nice action-picture!

In my upcoming project i want to try to combine animations with Terragen landscapes/backgrounds - if my testings with TG will be succesful.
I want to stich Terragen and animated spaceships (yeah, spaceships! \o/) together in the post via Nuke.
Since newer versions of Nuke or AfterFX can deal now more or less (i´m curious) with textured 3D models and space incl. lightning and particles..

That kind of workflow may speed up such possible short animation sequences/scenes from stills with themes like yours. We´ll see it in a few months (or not).

Too bad, my university (Design & Media) owns a little renderfarm but dont have any licences of any terrain generating software - like TG. *shakes fist

Greetings, Alex