Space Settlement (The High Frontier)

[eburacum45]

Looking very good, Chuft-captain.

As a bit of an off-the-wall suggestion. I wonder if you might try a faintly glowing, light blue transparent cylinder just inside the cloud layer? I'm experimenting with cylindical habitats myself, and I'm finding that the sky looks better from the ground if it has a transparent blue layer included.

This represents the blue of the sky, produced by Rayleigh scattering in the upper (innermost) layers of the atmosphere.

You might want to add the blue directly to the cloud layer. Once I get an image I'm proud of I'll post an example...

[Fenerit]

Fenerit,

Not sure how you mean for these flares to be used, but thanks for the links anyway. I'm unlikely to apply these to the current buildings as they are just temporary (chosen for their "polygon efficiency" -- 10 poly's each).

Will look into such fancier features with later generation models.

Cheers
CC

Chuft-Captain, see the link below for an explanation of the concept.

http://shutter03.pictures.aol.com/data/ ... zh0200.jpg

A "chess" texture which simul the "windows" has been mapped with the lens flares posted above. See the traslucency effect at the border of the lens flares; when seen at distance they seems a lot of illuminated windows. The red lens flare has been resize to 128x128 to fit on small windows, etc. This effect is great for objects as the Death Star, Sci-fi vessels and so on.
Bye, Fenerit

[seil]

Please show it early

[Chuft-Captain]

Some recent shots of my O'Neill Colony:



Props courtesy of max-realms.com (vehicles, trees, buildings) and artist-3d.com (human figures)

Land surface textures based on aerial photography of the City of Davis, CA

[rthorvald]

Your landscaping looks really great, but how is the polygon count for those trees? I had to refrain from using such detail in my Bernal sphere as it became too big to be usable...

- rthorvald

[Fenerit]

WOW, Chuft...

Your landscaping looks really great, but how is the polygon count for those trees? I had to refrain from using such detail in my Bernal sphere as it became too big to be usable...

- rthorvald

I think the leaf's trees to be simple square polyhedrons mapped with tansparent .png's...

[buggs_moran]

looking really good chuft!

[Chuft-Captain]

Your landscaping looks really great, but how is the polygon count for those trees? I had to refrain from using such detail in my Bernal sphere as it became too big to be usable...

Thanks Runar.

~30 million poly's -- just for the trees you see above in a single agricultural cylinder...(and there's 60 of those cylinders)...so I too will have to refrain.

[Chuft-Captain]

For those who would like more than a static experience, I have begun a video page.

(Low quality, but better than nothing )

[eburacum45]

Do those trucks move?
They look very quaint- I like that.

[Reiko]

Some recent shots of my O'Neill Colony:



Props courtesy of max-realms.com (vehicles, trees, buildings) and artist-3d.com (human figures)

Land surface textures based on aerial photography of the City of Davis, CA

Wait Mr. Kzintosh! When do we get to download?

[Chuft-Captain]

Do those trucks move?
They look very quaint- I like that.

Of course!

Wait Mr. Kzintosh! When do we get to download?

...it's looking like 2010

[Reiko]

Wait Mr. Kzintosh! When do we get to download?

...it's looking like 2010

[Chuft-Captain]

I'm sorry you're sad. Nice emoticon though!

It even looks like you:

[Reiko]

I'm sorry you're sad. Nice emoticon though!

It even looks like you:

But I don't have a sad face!

[Chuft-Captain]

I'm pleased to report that the 4th image above was one of 12 winners in the National Space SocietySpace Settlement 2009 Calendar Art Contestand will feature in the calendar when printed in May.

Special thanks to Da Woon Jung for the tile-rendering.

[Chuft-Captain]

Check out this STUNNING animation of a RAMA type interior by Eric Bruneton using his own custom developed rendering method.

Click on the pic:


There's also a higher resolution downloadable version of this video, a description of his techniques, and hires images at his own webpage: http://ebruneton.free.fr/rama3/rama.html

If only we could do this sort of thing in real-time!

Dev team may find the "Making of" pdf interesting.

[zhar2]

I imagine something like it in celestia would be memory intensive, but WOW.

[Spaceman]

...it's looking like 2010

Can't wait so long

I'm pleased to report that the 4th image above was one of 12 winners in the National Space SocietySpace Settlement 2009 Calendar Art Contestand will feature in the calendar when printed in May.



Special thanks to Da Woon Jung for the tile-rendering.

Glad to hear that

[Spaceman]

...it's looking like 2010

It's 2012 and I wonder what happened with this awesome project