Sixth black hole in production

Cham · Post #21by **Cham** » 26.07.2005, 03:59

fsgregs wrote:Cham:

Holy Crap! This is your best work yet. It is spectacular!!! The detail in the accretion disk is ... well ... GOSH!

My only question is whether you ever figured out why your nebula disappear at a distance of more than 1 LY. Many other nebula in Celestia add-ons do not and can be seen from hundreds of LY out. Is it the way the add-on is set up???
Frank

Thanks

Yes, the nebula is set up to disappear at some distance, because I defined it as an ssc object, not a dsc. This is to prevent any interference with real stuff out there. There are two other reasons : the frame rate is better this way, and the nebula is ugly as seen from outside : it's just a sphere ! There's a small catch, however : while close from the black hole, you can't click on a star. Clicking a star will select the nebula (or some part of the accretion disk).

Cham · Post #22by **Cham** » 08.08.2005, 21:19

Click on the image below. Remember something ?

What a bad movie it was anyway ! ;-)

maxim · Post #23by **maxim** » 08.08.2005, 21:28

Well, I didn't remember it to be soo bad. It was clearly designed as a B-Movie in the tradition of 'Forbidden Planet', and it was quite funny

maxim

Post #24by **selden** » 08.08.2005, 22:22

I liked most of the design features of the movie, but the Vincent and Bob robots just didn't fit in.

Cham,

There was a recent posting asking about the availability of the model you show. Where did you get it?

Cham · Post #25by **Cham** » 08.08.2005, 22:34

selden wrote:I liked most of the design features of the movie, but the Vincent and Bob robots just didn't fit in.

Cham,

There was a recent posting asking about the availability of the model you show. Where did you get it?

I found the model on this web site :

http://www.3dcommune.com/3d/free.mv?Pos ... ly+5+go+0+

There's a HUGE amount of stuff there, and I've found it by accident. The original model was a single piece in the .obj format. I had to separate the model in several pieces and convert it to 3ds so it can be used in Celestia. I'll probably release the model with the black hole (CygnusX-1) when I'll upload it to the Motherlode.

maxim · Post #26by **maxim** » 08.08.2005, 23:00

Don't forget the XYZ-data!
(can this be derived from the movie anyway?)

maxim

buggs_moran · Post #27by **buggs_moran** » 08.08.2005, 23:34

Cham wrote:Click on the image below. Remember something ?

What a bad movie it was anyway !

No, not bad, early dark Disney, I wanted to be Maximillian Schell's character (or his robot), what an evil dude. "In, through, and BEYOND!" rings in my ears. God I can still hear it and I havent seen that movie in over 20 years. Beautiful work...