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Post by: Hannes on October 18, 2012, 09:15:39 AM
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!!!
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Post by: Walli on October 18, 2012, 09:31:46 AM
great!
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Post by: otakar on October 18, 2012, 11:09:25 AM
Like a breath of fresh air. A bit reminiscent of Battlestar Galactica (if you don't look too closely at the planes) :)
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Post by: Tangled-Universe on October 18, 2012, 11:32:26 AM
ID:4 :)
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Post by: Hetzen on October 18, 2012, 11:45:00 AM
Really nice mood to this. I like it a lot.
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Post by: j meyer on October 18, 2012, 12:06:01 PM
Well done,looks like a lot of greeble work. 8)
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Post by: inkydigit on October 18, 2012, 01:57:17 PM
cinematic excellence!
:)
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Post by: Dune on October 18, 2012, 02:26:18 PM
Wow!  I really like the mood and the fact that you bring 'old' and 'new' together in a fascinating way. Great lighting as well.
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Post by: Oshyan on October 18, 2012, 02:53:14 PM
Hah! Independence Day (movie) as if it happened in 1920? :D

- Oshyan
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Post by: Zairyn Arsyn on October 18, 2012, 03:42:51 PM
i like the greeble work too, :)
Quote from: Oshyan on October 18, 2012, 02:53:14 PM
Hah! Independence Day (movie) as if it happened in 1920? :D

- Oshyan
Independence Day Prequel, without that silly Mac OS / alien computer hacking stuff 
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Post by: masonspappy on October 18, 2012, 06:13:14 PM
Quote from: j meyer on October 18, 2012, 12:06:01 PM
Well done,looks like a lot of greeble work. 8)
That's exactly what I was thinking - "wow, lookit all the greebles!!"
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Post by: TheBadger on October 18, 2012, 08:15:55 PM
Bad ass! <--- just to be clear, that means  :o

Animation on this one?
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Post by: Kadri on October 18, 2012, 09:48:50 PM

Nice!
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Post by: Hannes on October 19, 2012, 12:49:10 AM
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.
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Post by: Bjur on October 20, 2012, 01:40:26 AM
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). :P

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
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Post by: Oshyan on October 20, 2012, 01:42:40 AM
Alex, we do offer an educational discount of 50% on any Terragen 2 product (not including Xfrog bundles, which have their own educational discounts), as well as additional volume discounts. Just in case your school might be interested. :)

- Oshyan
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Post by: Bjur on October 20, 2012, 05:26:57 AM
Quote from: Oshyan on October 20, 2012, 01:42:40 AM
Alex, we do offer an educational discount of 50% on any Terragen 2 product (not including Xfrog bundles, which have their own educational discounts), as well as additional volume discounts. Just in case your school might be interested. :)

- Oshyan

Thx! A p.m. is yours!  :)
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Post by: FrankB on October 20, 2012, 04:53:57 PM
Awesome, man! Looks great!
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Post by: elipsis1 on October 20, 2012, 11:40:03 PM
INTENSE! wow, this is superb :)