Custom Science-Fiction Pictures from Celestia

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Custom Science-Fiction Pictures from Celestia

Post #1by Cham » 21.08.2012, 15:06

Pictures from custom Science-Fiction in Celestia :wink:

Make your own interpretation...

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Post #2by Cham » 21.08.2012, 15:18

Some colonization missions to Mars :

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Oops, a cargo lost a pack here...
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But hey, this isn't Mars in the background. What the ... !?
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Post #3by Cham » 21.08.2012, 15:34

Hmmm, that's not exactly custom SF, but I couldn't resist :

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Post #4by Cham » 21.08.2012, 23:08

A space station around an Earth-like world...

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Post #5by Cham » 22.08.2012, 01:33

More crap...

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Post #6by Cham » 22.08.2012, 02:13

More alien stuff :

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A modification of some Babylon5 spacecraft :
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Post #7by Cham » 22.08.2012, 02:21

Aliens at work...

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Now, I'm already bored of my own stuff ! :roll:
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Post #8by Reiko » 27.08.2012, 06:11

Cham wrote:Some colonization missions to Mars :

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Oops, a cargo lost a pack here...
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But hey, this isn't Mars in the background. What the ... !?
I love these! Are the available on the motherlode?

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Post #9by Cham » 27.08.2012, 13:53

Reiko,

the Mars missions models are available on the forum. Just do a search.

EDIT : Models are here : viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10292&hilit=science+fiction+SS+Copernicus+model
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Post #10by Cham » 27.08.2012, 19:20

Pictures from the old thread above...

Models made almost 6 years ago ! Geez time is flying by way too fast ! :cry:

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Post #11by Cham » 27.08.2012, 19:23

Could be great to have shadows in Celestia, like these :

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Post #12by Chuft-Captain » 27.08.2012, 22:33

Aren't mesh shadows coming in 1.7 ?
Chris did mention that he was working on this a while ago, but I'm not sure of his progress.
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Post #13by abramson » 27.08.2012, 22:53

Oh, yes, Chris showed shadows on models a LONG time ago. Definitely, Cham's models need them...

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Post #14by bh » 28.08.2012, 16:34

Eh?

I think you'll find all shots where rendered within Celestia... great models Cham. I do remember them. Very plausible.
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Post #15by Tegmine » 29.08.2012, 12:24

I guess this is where this goes...4 more earthlike worlds, made using Wilbur and GIMP...except the one in the upper left corner... :D

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Post #16by Cham » 30.08.2012, 01:53

Alien civilisation, in M31 :

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Post #17by PlutonianEmpire » 01.09.2012, 04:07

Darity, a habitable moon orbiting Kepler-16b.

It is part of a sci-fi universe I'm building for my now-finished story.

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Post #18by Hungry4info » 01.09.2012, 16:31

You could have also mentioned that Kepler-16 (AB)b is too close to the star(s) to be habitable.

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Post #19by Cham » 01.09.2012, 16:32

Crunching some asteroids, in a far away system, is not an easy task :

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Post #20by Cham » 01.09.2012, 16:35

An old universal deity is protecting life on Earth :

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