The Gate

[DocCharly65]

To get some variety in my never ending  Poolhouse work, I started one of the "introducing scenes" for my 2020'th film.

A new protagonist. Welcome "The Gate"

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I found the stargate ( by 3dregenerator) on TF3DM
Meanwhile I get more and more used to Wings3D so I could disassemble it for animation.
On Saturday I hope to get first animation results (I'm still playing with some settings until I like the animation of the event horizon and the steam)

another animation will show the rotating Scroll Wheel and the lights going on.

[Dune]

Wow, very cool entry! It's like a lens. Looking forward to how you'll animate this.

[archonforest]

Wow very cool stuff here! Cant wait to see the anim part.

[Kadri]

Nice.You could even animate the water effect with Terragen.

[DocCharly65]

animate the water effect? already in process     

[Kadri]

Not surprised

[DocCharly65]

Here a test of the scene before the wormhole has formed...
"chevron 1 activated" 

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The clamps will be brightened a little bit...

Next I must check my Stargate collection for the sequence of animation... symbol ring is rotating then stopping - clamp is selecting the symbol - then light is going on (or before the clamp is selecting?) - symbol ring goes on rotating...

I will see... 

[DocCharly65]

IT'S IN THE QUEUE - IT'S IN THE QUEUE !



Sorry -- just happy about a minimal step forwards.
I have sent this one (only 720x405 AA1/Detail1) successfully to TheRANCH and I hope I will get a 1280x720 AA3/Detail3 version for less than 50$  .

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Syfy specialists will know, which part of commissioning the stargate it is... 
Rendering on my last Reserve PC will need 1-2 Days for one 1280x720 3/3 image 
So I decided to test the project export and the render farm for this single pic.

Cross your fingers for me... Anyway I'm curious if the wormholeeffect of this scene works as I want... could be a crazy animation 

Another step running at "Asus 01" 
This will be the animation of the Chevron fixation.
I'm a little proud on a manually and entirely new painted bump map for all the ornamentals 
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[Kadri]

[Dune]

Isn't it just fantastic to work in this field?

[DocCharly65]

Do you mean wormholes and quantum field theory?  - Yes, very intersting but also very complicated 






Update 5:45 pm:
Renderjob on farm running...
33.33% done
Current cost: 24.18 €

Will be one of my most expensive images... no matter how bad it will be - YOU  MUST  LIKE  IT  !!!

[DocCharly65]

I fear I will not use this edition of the view for an animation...
There's a monster blur (DOF) in it
3 monster glas objects with several lights...

I will work on a different solution.

35.56% done
Current cost: 47.67 €

OK... the principle works but a renderfarm isn't a wizzard as well for too extreme settings. I have cancelled this job.
We'll see, what we try next...

[Dune]

That's too bad. So you see; wormholes and quantum field theory are easy..... TG is difficult!

[DocCharly65]

Right...  OK I have to admit that it's a bit presumptuous to try to recreate this Hollywood scene after 1 year of experience with Terragen 3 ... (And use ONLY Terragen for all special effects - but that is the goal  )

That's not really my template. In the TV series other Stargates were used depending on the planet and the "dialing sequences" differ slightly. I have created a version according to my possibilities... But I think it will be still considerable.

Here you can see the different looking effect in the TV series (Less impressive than the Movie of course):

[Dune]

Looking at that exploding/imploding lens, I'd say it can be done by displacing a disc or plane with a vortex shader and a projected circle perhaps, adding a glass shader for the texture. Some smoke/cloud in tiny drops to go with it (like I did in my waterfall setup). How did you go about it? Pretty impressive film sequence, by the way.