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Ever since I started using 3D applications, I have always dreamt of being able to recreate something nature does beautfully. My personal favorite among all others is the Earth. Her splendid natural beauty is something I…
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| Posted: Sep 02, 2010
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| Published by: Eugene
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Users comments (8)
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| Posted by Eugene on Sep 14, 2010 at 06:13 PM
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Thank you Jacob for your comment,
And yes, I know that stars are an important element that are missing. As I expressed in the below comments.
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| Posted by Jacob Allgayer on Sep 14, 2010 at 12:20 PM
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There's one important part of this that is missing: stars.
The planet looks great.
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| Posted by Eugene on Sep 09, 2010 at 02:29 PM
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Thank you, and yes I understand that stars are a necessary visual element to something like this. However my focus on this image is strictly of the Earth, and nothing more. There is no sun either. The Earth itself is made of three different layers. A high resolution Earth map and bump, a high resolution cloud map and bump, and an atmosphere shader. The clouds cast shadows on the Earth map, and the image was originally rendered at 5,000 by 2,813. I could have added stars, but for this image I felt it was unnecessary since it is purely a demonstration of the planet.
I will check out the workstations from Armari.com, thank you for showing me this.
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| Posted by xxosaxx on Sep 05, 2010 at 04:14 AM
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Hey Eugen,
nice render but as @Wayne9 said, you should think about adding some stars.
If you are thinking about buying new workstation go and check Armari.com I'm using their workstation from 2 years already and im very happy with quality.
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| Posted by Eugene on Sep 03, 2010 at 07:41 PM
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Scraggy,
Thank you.
I will E-Mail you when I get back from out of state so it's on my home computer. I appreciate your offer, and look forward to having that PDF. I'll E-Mail you soon if you don't read this comment. What I have learned, thanks to Google... ;P Is to disable many of the render settings in Vue, and not to use the internal render. There isn't much I can say I know though, so perhaps that PDF will come in handy.
I haven't found any integration with Vue into the latest version of Maya, 2011. I know it has it for 2009. I'll have to start focusing my attention on Vue again.
I was looking at Boxx's workstations or personal render farms. Almost convinced to buy one. Their rep I have an E-Mail history with sends me new info including the updates they release here and there. Dunno, might just go for it.
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| Posted by Scraggy on Sep 03, 2010 at 06:59 PM
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Heya,
Great render ! I too use Vue but haven't got round to doing any spherical planets yet, just got 4Gb RAM (Only had 2Gb before) and that has helped bring Vue render times down.
Not sure if you have come across it already Eugene but theres a .pdf around that someone has wrote on how to get your render times down and has a good explanation of all settings.
If you want it I can send you a copy no problem, just ask - I'm Scraggydogg@gmail.com
so if you e-mail me i'll send you a copy on .pdf .
I noticed too that some things seem to render faster in Mental Ray than Vue, but then others you think would render fast take much longer, so I think it's just something that we'll get used to in time but if you haven't seen the .pdf its well worth a read as some settings increase render time without much of a gain in quality...all explained too.
I'm very excited about the Vue/Maya integration now and i'm stunned at just how many poly's I can get up to in Vue, and now Integration from Maya and ZBrush - wow - I just wish I could have afforded 8Gb RAM.
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| Posted by Eugene on Sep 02, 2010 at 05:09 PM
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Hello Wayne9,
Thank you for your comment. I have used Vue in the past to create a procedural planet. I really did like it. Many people often tell me it's the Maya of environments :P Their opinion though. So I got into using it for a while. Only issue I had with it was it's own render. Took way too long for me. Though, integrating it with older versions of Maya made it easier to render environments, but for some reason not planets.
Thank you again,
Much appreciation.
-Eugene.
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| Posted by Wayne9 on Sep 02, 2010 at 02:36 PM
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Hey man, good stuff. You should look into Vue. I have a feeling you might like it a lot. The neat thing about it is that
you can use it as a stand-alone software or have it integrated into your primary 3D software as a plug-in.
Check out the videos if you haven't already...You'll be gladly surprised.
If I may, I think you could've refined the composition a little bit more. Having some stars in the background would be cool.
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