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Title: Space ballet
Post by: Hannes on April 01, 2020, 01:47:21 AM
I dug out my ISS (originally a free untextured model by Chris Kuhn - unfortunately not available anymore, only textured and not free at Turbosquid), and put in some instances of a funny fat astronaut from Sketchfab. I had to repose the guy, but couldn't load it into Mixamo, so I just pushed some vertices around.

The best thing is to see, how much better the ISS looks with the path tracer.
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: DocCharly65 on April 01, 2020, 02:03:03 AM
:o  ...  ???  ...  ::)  ...  :)  ...  :D  ...  ;D  .  ;D  .   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 
ingenious!
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: Dune on April 01, 2020, 02:11:25 AM
;D ;D ;D  That is super, Hannes! And the quality is indeed impeccable. It's probably fast rendering too, without any volumetric stuff.
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: Hannes on April 01, 2020, 02:37:14 AM
Thanks guys!! Yes, Ulco, each frame took about 18 minutes to render. Indeed no volumetric stuff, no atmosphere, so no need for a GI cache, and no flickering.
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: WAS on April 01, 2020, 04:06:20 AM
Lol, looks good. I saw that astronaut too and had a chuckle.

I feel the smooth metal parts of the metallic modules could use a foil like normal map. I dunno. Would look nice with the camera movements.
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: Hannes on April 01, 2020, 05:00:01 AM
Quote from: WAS on April 01, 2020, 04:06:20 AMI feel the smooth metal parts of the metallic modules could use a foil like normal map.
I'm not sure what you mean. Something to break up the shininess?
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Post by: Kadri on April 01, 2020, 09:23:04 AM
Sweet :)
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Post by: j meyer on April 01, 2020, 12:29:04 PM
;D Roly-poly astronauts, hilarious. ;D
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: sboerner on April 01, 2020, 01:51:45 PM
This is really great! Can you do a choreographed clip with a Tchaikovsky or Prokofiev soundtrack? (Or better yet Strauss, a la Kubrik.) Please?  :)
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: Hannes on April 01, 2020, 04:11:55 PM
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Funny, that you mention it. For a moment I was thinking about adding Strauss' Blue Danube as music.
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: WAS on April 02, 2020, 04:32:23 PM
Quote from: Hannes on April 01, 2020, 05:00:01 AM
Quote from: WAS on April 01, 2020, 04:06:20 AMI feel the smooth metal parts of the metallic modules could use a foil like normal map.
I'm not sure what you mean. Something to break up the shininess?

Yeah, but I have it backwards actually. Those modules are a solid metal look, though it's more of a dull sheen IRL like aluminum.

But a lot of the white modules around fittings, windows, operator arms, etc, have white fabric-like material which is wrinkly (you have that). Some parts are foil like the Bigelow expandable module.
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: sboerner on April 03, 2020, 03:25:15 PM
QuoteFor a moment I was thinking about adding Strauss' Blue Danube as music.
Exactly. This must be done at some point. :) A project for a rainy day perhaps.
Title: Re: Space ballet
Post by: masonspappy on April 07, 2020, 12:55:25 AM
that's funny. Looks like oxygen and nitrogen aren't the only gases in those suits. ;)
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