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ANDREA wrote:

zhar2 wrote:U mean the blender model, the image or the capella addon? i can make available any of them

Zhar2, I mean the 2x1 texture you applied to the model.
I don't need the model itself, thank you.
Bye

Andrea

Ok pm me with ur e-mail and ill send u the surface texture, bump map, spec map (theres a night map too that i neglected to use in that image) and a cloud map.

zhar2 wrote:

ANDREA wrote:

zhar2 wrote:U mean the blender model, the image or the capella addon? i can make available any of them

Zhar2, I mean the 2x1 texture you applied to the model. I don't need the model itself, thank you. Bye Andrea

Ok pm me with ur e-mail and ill send u the surface texture, bump map, spec map (theres a night map too that i neglected to use in that image) and a cloud map.

Thanks a lot, zhar2, very appreciated.
Please check your PM for my address.
Bye

Andrea

Mommy!!!

The view from the opposite side of the galaxy.

Reiko wrote:Mommy!!!

Could that be belana tores from star trek voyager orbital diving? i forgot the name of the episode.

zhar2 wrote:Could that be belana tores from star trek voyager orbital diving? i forgot the name of the episode.

No face came with that model so I suppose you could put one on it. Not sure the name of that episode either.

This one ?

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Extreme_Risk_%28episode%29

Tim

fungun wrote:This one ?

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Extreme_Risk_%28episode%29

Tim

Oh yes thats the one.

I finally found a trick to integrate pure CMOD string geometries into a parachute model for my Huygens probe. The result is simply stunning in Celestia (I like especially the second picture below) !

As usual, click the picture for a larger view.


Anykind of 3ds mesh for the strings always ends in an ugly result in Celestia. The pure CMOD strings solve the problem completely. I'm really glad of the result.

That's a super parachute Cham... nice job!

That's very nice Cham.
How did you do this. Can you share the technique? Is it just a matter of editing the .cmod_mesh file??
I have an application where I think this would be very useful, and I suspect would have better performance than the current approach (a very long and thin triangular mesh).

Regards
CC

Chuft-Captain wrote:How did you do this. Can you share the technique? Is it just a matter of editing the .cmod_mesh file??

Yes, it is basically ASCII CMOD data manipulations. It's not difficult, really, but it may be a bit long, depending on the complexity of the model. To draw a CMOD line in a 3ds model, I first need to find the exact point coordinates from a part of the mesh, using the 3D modeler. I use some triangles in the modeler, exported into an ASCII CMOD file. I then examine the coordinates in the ASCII file and use them to draw the lines. I'll have to publish a whole tutorial thread to explain all this technique in details (if I can find some time, which I don't have much ).

zhar2 wrote:A planet around capella (not celestia but nice):
[img]http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=worldmu3.png[/img]

I would also like to see a tutorial showing how this planet was created.

A friend and I have been messing around with fungun's spacedock and came up with this so far.

Nice Reiko, love that "Mommy!" pic too lol. You too Cham, beautiful work. I've not been around lately so I'm sure I've missed many contributions... I have a bit of back-tracking to do.

A quick setup of a (real) multi-star system containing a rapidly rotating star in a close binary with a white dwarf, with an additional pair of stars located further out. The rapidly rotating star is modelled as an oblate spheroid, however it might be interesting to try a Roche "spheroid".

Is it HD 98800?

No, it's Regulus. (Ok, the cheat is that Regulus A was only discovered to be a spectroscopic binary last year...)

That?s the point.
I saw somewhere,that these stars that spins too fast are not perfect spheres,but rather spheroidals.So we need separate models for stars like Regulus,Altair and Achernar!