Fun Stuff

sboerner · June 30, 2020, 10:13:32 AM

QuoteThe model of helicopter ingenuity, weighing in at 4lbs. not yet found by me.

Looks like this could be a native Blender file.

luvsmuzik · July 03, 2020, 05:17:55 PM

Quote from: sboerner on June 30, 2020, 10:13:32 AM
Quote from: undefinedThe model of helicopter ingenuity, weighing in at 4lbs. not yet found by me.

Looks like this could be a native Blender file.

Yes! Thanks, I also found this one a few days ago after I imported and converted another file type. Great to have these! Trying to get to them.....

luvsmuzik · July 03, 2020, 10:13:14 PM

Ingenuity weight 4 lbs.

Author/Origin: Brian Kumanchik, NASA/JPL-Caltech

Relevant Mission: Mars 2020

OBJ Blender file

sboerner · July 04, 2020, 12:36:10 PM

Nice! If I might make a small suggestion . . . maybe lower the camera and raise the angle of view to include a bit more sky, then lift up Ingenuity so it is silhouetted against the sky, to show it is truly airborne. Now at first glance – before your eye sorts out the perspective – it looks as though it might be resting on the slope of that distant hill.

Too bad there is no camera blur for objects! It would be nice to show the blades spinning somehow!

Dune · July 05, 2020, 01:19:09 AM

There's a trick for blurred rotors/blades, but you'd have to replace the rotors by a blurred rotor texture on a plane, with a non-reflective glass shader in front of a masked surface shader carrying that texture in TG.

N-drju · July 09, 2020, 03:41:00 AM

Back in business?

Good for you!

It's been a while since I last watched this thread. Some really nice interplanetary visions in here. Looks very Martian indeed, especially the atmospheric effects.

luvsmuzik · August 28, 2020, 03:48:18 PM

More trials with reflective shaders...

Scifi hallways, Blender 2.82
Starships Blender 2.8
Cliffside base Blender

3 light sources in each hallway 3000 strength
mhaze fake stones clip
terrain, default fractal 119 with some strata and slope limits

PT base cliffside ships3.jpg

hallway

PT and renders at about an hour (mpd 0.6 AA6) with no extra planet or clouds
soft shadows 2 & 18

masonspappy · August 28, 2020, 06:20:38 PM

really like this! Blender and Terragen are wonderful compliments to each other.

luvsmuzik · February 18, 2021, 09:58:02 AM

We shall see if the best laid plans work later today.....stay tuned!

WAS · February 18, 2021, 02:04:29 PM

Very cool! Reminds me kinda of battlestar galactica ships.

luvsmuzik · February 18, 2021, 04:29:59 PM

Perseverance safely dropped to Jezero, February 18, 2021.

WAS · February 18, 2021, 04:41:50 PM

I think you uploaded a thumbnail by accident? I think I see a rover.

luvsmuzik · February 18, 2021, 05:58:28 PM

Quote from: WAS on February 18, 2021, 04:41:50 PMI think you uploaded a thumbnail by accident? I think I see a rover.

Thanks, I tried to do this by phone.😝

luvsmuzik · February 21, 2021, 07:42:48 PM

Jezero Crater, Mars
Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter NASA Brian Kumanchick JPL Caltech
Mars Landing 2/18/21

Safe landing! I want to mask in some rover tire tracks in the seemingly soft surface. Track previews in NASA's released images support theories about moisture content, some having an almost muddy appearance.
This image made with Terragen 4.5 PT, although it is very close to some images released by NASA.

Dune · February 22, 2021, 02:14:10 AM

Cool render! Well... cool

Intriguing to find out more now 'we' have landed.