Cosmic Fantasy Addon here (DOWNLOAD LINK)

Cham · Post #1by **Cham** » 08.10.2006, 00:43

This weekend, I'm finishing a fantasy model I started a long time ago. I had to remake many pieces from scratch. But here it is, almost finished. It's a pretty cosmic "spaceship", flying in outer space. Once finished to my taste, I may give a link to the addon here, if there are some ppl interested in this kind of stuff :

EDIT : Both models are finished. Here's a download link, for your pleasure (40 MB zip file). I know, it's a big file to download, just for some useless (non-scientific) fantasy addon, but hey, it's FREE ! Feel free to give your opinion in this thread.

http://nho.ohn.free.fr/celestia/Cham/Sacred_Fire.zip

Malenfant · Post #2by **Malenfant** » 08.10.2006, 07:05

Looks cool... I remember this from when you first showed it.

I must ask though - what possessed you to create that? Did you just randomly think "I know, I'll do a buddhist temple floating through space in Celestia!", or was there a particular inspiration for it?

Cham · Post #3by **Cham** » 08.10.2006, 07:26

Well, it's a bit hard to explain. It just happens that I'm really interested in buddhism for itself, and I traveled several times in asia to do some trekking (India, Nepal, Tibet, Laos and Cambodia). I had the chance to see many of the great temples there (bodnath, swaymbunath, Lamayuru, Tikse, Hemis, etc), and those temples are very impressive. Buddhism and hindouism are "cosmic" religions and I thought that it would be great to have a virtual temple in Celestia. In the tibetan tradition, the wind can bring your wishes (flags flapping in the breeze) and a prayer's wheel can even praise for you. Since this philosophy is universal in some way, it also works even in virtual space.

Cham · Post #4by **Cham** » 08.10.2006, 23:31

I forgot to say that my main inspiration for this model was Escher's "Another world" drawing, so this explain why I wanted to create a temple floating in outer space :

Cham · Post #5by **Cham** » 09.10.2006, 05:59

Here's a "metaphysical" variation (old model reworked), more Escher like :

"What puts the sacred fire into the fundamental equations ?"

Cham · Post #6by **Cham** » 10.10.2006, 21:13

The models are finished. Works best with Celestia 1.5.0. I've edited the first post to add a download link.

JimHarvie · Post #7by **JimHarvie** » 12.10.2006, 02:16

Wow that is a beautiful image!. I am curious, what software(s) did you use and how many dozens of hours must that have taken?

Cham · Post #8by **Cham** » 14.10.2006, 05:36

I've just updated the file. Some parts are now much bettter (especially bezels, and the skull on a temple). If you already have downloaded the previous version, well, I'm sorry. This should be the final version.

JimHarvie,

I'm using Cheetah3D on the Mac. And yes, it took a lot of time to do. This project was made over a pretty long period of time, working on it a bit at a time.

Cham · Post #9by **Cham** » 15.10.2006, 19:24

There are some strange asteroids, in this world ;-)

bh · Post #10by bh » 15.10.2006, 20:09

Not my cuppa but great job!

Post #11by **ElChristou** » 15.10.2006, 20:28

Cham wrote:There are some strange asteroids, in this world

Nice!