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Subject: Awesome NASA/Russian space agency models for free!


Daidalos ( ) posted Tue, 25 November 2008 at 11:02 AM · edited Tue, 26 November 2024 at 8:52 AM

Hey everyone, I was looking over at Nasa's site for some photos of the cosmos I could use for a background in renders and found this little gem.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/index.html

Apparently these are all free and can be used royalty free. They aren't textured but they do have material zones so thats not a really big issue if you can texture/use nodes.

Don't know if it's been posted here before, but incase it hasnt been I thought someone might be able to use these.

Daidalos


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thefixer ( ) posted Tue, 25 November 2008 at 11:53 AM

Cool models, thanx for the link!

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EnglishBob ( ) posted Tue, 25 November 2008 at 12:45 PM

Attached Link: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Thanks! One good turn deserves another...

Quote - I was looking over at Nasa's site for some photos of the cosmos I could use for a background in renders

Have you tried Celestia? I've used it for making space backgrounds a couple of times. 


Daidalos ( ) posted Tue, 25 November 2008 at 8:26 PM

No Bob I'd never heard of it. I usually make all of my space backgrounds by hand in Photoshop. I will def check it out though.

Appreciate the heads up!

Daidalos


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Daidalos ( ) posted Tue, 25 November 2008 at 8:30 PM

Bob real quick question. Can these files be used in other apps to create your own artwork. All I see on the site is that the work belongs to the original creators.

Thanks,

Daidalos


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EnglishBob ( ) posted Wed, 26 November 2008 at 3:37 AM

Attached Link: Cubeworld - a gallery image of mine which uses a Celestia background

Good question - I'm assuming the output would be free to use in the same way as renders from a 3D program.  Also, it's open source - you can poke around in the innards of the program and make your own version if you want, so I can't imagine there would be a restriction on the use of the output. That said, I can't find anything which says yea or nay on that score. There isn't a readme file in the latest download package, and their forum is down at the moment. I'll make enquiries and get back to you if I receive a definitive answer.


EnglishBob ( ) posted Fri, 28 November 2008 at 3:39 AM

I managed to sign up at the Celestia forums, and the consensus seems to be similar to most of the freestuff in our community. Give credit where credit is due; if you use one of the many third-party add-ons in your work, check the terms for that separately; and if in doubt, ask!

In other words, if you just want to make some starfields as backgrounds, go ahead, and give credit to Celestia.


xantor ( ) posted Sat, 29 November 2008 at 12:02 AM

Can you output animated starfields using celestia?


EnglishBob ( ) posted Sat, 29 November 2008 at 11:36 AM

Attached Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NNozFz2yk

I'm a newbie with Celestia - or more accurately, a surface-skimmer since I've been using it for some time but never in depth - however, yes, there is an option to capture a movie of your virtual travels as well as to take snapshots. As proof, here's a synchronous orbit of Saturn that I captured after only a few minutes' poking around.


xantor ( ) posted Sat, 29 November 2008 at 10:32 PM

Great, thank you.


Osper ( ) posted Sun, 30 November 2008 at 1:20 PM

Hey! thanks for the info, it's all neat.


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