Never posted renders

[Simius Strabus]

I'm pretty sure that most of us have tons of renders that never made it to the forum for all kinds of reasons. (Needs work, got stuck, etc...)
Here's a few of em.

[Dune]

Some very nice works, Chiel, thanks for showing them.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

these are all nice renders, i like the star wars themed renders alot but i think my favorite is the lake one, nice reflections.

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J'aime bien les deux dernières images. 

[Simius Strabus]

Have to say that the last two images are my personal favorite, too. I'm kind of a Star Wars fan 

[McNistor]

Very nice images indeed.
I have some observations about the last one though:
the scale of the ship versus the asteroid ring and planet is wrong.

If that was a real photo, the ship would be enormous. I'm not talking "star wars" enormous (which are about 10km in length if I'm not mistaken), but "planetary" enormous, hundreds of km if not more.
How did I reach to this conclusion?
Well, the asteroids seem to be very large as well since you can see individual ones from this distance, a distance that allows you to see the whole planet (if the camera would point to the center of the planet). If the shadow of the ship cast on the ring is that large, it means the ship is as large of several hundreds asteroids in length which are already very big as stated above.

On the other hand if the ship is 10km (as in star wars) it can't cast a shadow on the asteroid ring because it would much closer to the camera and the shadow would "fall" outside of the ring or it would be very small (about the size of the asteroid). Keep in mind that light coming from the star can be considered an infinite light thus the shadow wouldn't grow very much if projected on a distant object (the rings in this case).

Am I right when I say that the ship model's scale is not realistic when compared to the planet model?
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McNistor

[TheBadger]

Some nice elements in each one.

[Simius Strabus]

I checked the scale and they were of by "only" 33x....whoops... Looked up the specs at wookieepedia.
ISD's are about 1600 meters long, the SSD-Executor (SW5-6) is 19000 meters long.
Rendering a new picture, ISD's closer to the camera and true to scale. Included an SSD as well.

Very nice images indeed.
I have some observations about the last one though:
the scale of the ship versus the asteroid ring and planet is wrong.

If that was a real photo, the ship would be enormous. I'm not talking "star wars" enormous (which are about 10km in length if I'm not mistaken), but "planetary" enormous, hundreds of km if not more.
How did I reach to this conclusion?
Well, the asteroids seem to be very large as well since you can see individual ones from this distance, a distance that allows you to see the whole planet (if the camera would point to the center of the planet). If the shadow of the ship cast on the ring is that large, it means the ship is as large of several hundreds asteroids in length which are already very big as stated above.

On the other hand if the ship is 10km (as in star wars) it can't cast a shadow on the asteroid ring because it would much closer to the camera and the shadow would "fall" outside of the ring or it would be very small (about the size of the asteroid). Keep in mind that light coming from the star can be considered an infinite light thus the shadow wouldn't grow very much if projected on a distant object (the rings in this case).

Am I right when I say that the ship model's scale is not realistic when compared to the planet model?
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McNistor

[Simius Strabus]

Here's the true to scale version.

[McNistor]

This looks a lot better

As I suspected, now the shadows won't be visible on the planet's rings since the ships are much closer to the camera and are outside the rings zone.

I'm just curios: would the ships be visible if you were to leave them in the exact same place where they previously were before getting them to a realistic scale?

[Dune]

Very nice. One thing that eludes me (in general); these ships must have been or should be built in space, as they would never be able to leave gravity unscathed, with all these outside structures.

[Icegrip]

Thanks for sharing. I like "The Lake" the most.

[Simius Strabus]

This looks a lot better

As I suspected, now the shadows won't be visible on the planet's rings since the ships are much closer to the camera and are outside the rings zone.

I'm just curios: would the ships be visible if you were to leave them in the exact same place where they previously were before getting them to a realistic scale?

I made a render with the true to scale models at their original position first. The ships were not visible

[4nt]

a lot of nice pix, thanks for sharing these

cheers

[McNistor]

I made a render with the true to scale models at their original position first. The ships were not visible

Of course not.
What surprises me the most is this kind of mistake I spot a lot in movies (big budget movies), but I guess I'm in minority here so it will be a while until there will be a movie without these mistakes, if ever.