Thanks you guys for all the helpful feedback!
Tangled-Unviserse,
QuoteI would render out the martians/UFO in a separate pass in your 3D package of choice like Maya/Max/LW/etc and comp it in your package of choice.
My "main app" is Carrara8Pro......also have C4D, VUE10, Bryce7, Blender 2.63, and ZBrush4R4.
What does it mean to comp it? Put it in a layer? I want to fly through the scene.....doesn't comping mean a 2D image as a background or
back drop?
Already have GC2, and was considering WorldMachine, but will focus on TG2 for animation.
I agree about using multiple apps....they are all good at something, and I enjoy trying to integrate them when possible.
BTW,
The Badger.....I saw your post earlier but didn't have time to grok it, and was interested in what you said.....can you
please repeat it?
Thanks,
Inkydigit, for the link.....always interested in seeing what others have done......it's relevant.
If anyone cares to see some of what I've done in Carrara, et al,
here is my YouTube channel.
My best Martian stuff was done (imho) using Hexagon to model the ships (inspired by War of the Worlds '53 when I was an impressionable lad of
8, peeping through my fingers at the cinema....still gives me a chill!).
Here are the Martians searching for humans! =O
(be sure to turn on the sound......shudder!)
But I haven't been able to get the degree of realism that I see in Terragen.....I have VUE10, but it runs very slowly even
on my i7 with 6gb ram. But it does have a very extensive erosion abiltity.
Just not sure which way to go. I've tried importing the map for Olympus mons into Carrara, VUE, GC2, and somehow am not getting
what I think it should look like, even after lowering the vertical scale. Will try it asap in TG2 free for now.
There are a lot of intriguing features I see on Mars that I want to re-create and zoom through.
Here's Mars using a hi-res NASA
photo mapped onto a sphere in Carrara.
Next I want to land (amid dust and flames!) and go exploring.....need to confront my phantoms!