Progress on the Atlantis gate room:

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Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

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Sweet!

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That's coming along really good! Can't wait to see it finished!

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Adding the lights and the metal filigree to the central staircase:

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AWESOME!

Even better close up. Look at those beautifully beveled edges. I often find that to be the hardest part. Keep them coming!

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Why does Atlantis need a gate room? By the last season, most of their travel was done in space ships.

True, but space travel took time. The StarGate spanned those distances instantly.

Thanks for the support, guys!

flibbits posted at 6:23AM Fri, 15 July 2016 - #4275889

Why does Atlantis need a gate room? By the last season, most of their travel was done in space ships.

Earth folk never would have even gotten to Atlantis without the stargate. Midway station depended on bridging the Pegasus gate system to the Milky Way gate system. And, as HBorre noted, gating is much faster than traveling by ship. Atlantis did have a stargate, so the model needs to have one.

My question is how many gates were sized to be usable by the Furling, and where were those gates located? Or did the Furling only have gates to accommodate guests?

Modeling progress: railing for the balcony near the conference room doors; I'll also make railing for the control room balcony and the skybridge connecting the control room to the commander's office.

By the way, your dolly will load into the scene at the red cross near the foot of the main staircase, facing the stargate, with the default main camera facing the staircase. Dolly will be sunk thigh-deep into the floor, because that central dais is four steps higher than the base floor. I considered placing the dais surface at Poser Y=0, but I feared that Poser newbies would fail to move or hide the construct (ground plane & skydome), and so the base floor level would be buried.

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...and railing for the control room balcony and the skybridge:

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Made a conference room door (behind Silo guy); I'll UV-unwrap it, then duplicate it along the conference room wall.

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Interior wall surface of the circular conference room, and one of the eight doors.

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UV-unwrapped the railing for the balconies, skybridge, back stairway, and jumper bay stairway. Also unwrapped the conference room wall and door.

Forming the skylight vaults at each side of the stargate, and their windows:

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That is looking really good. Will the conference room doors rotate open like they did on the show? And yes, the stargate was extremely important in Atlantis even though they had access to the ships. It's was Universe that rarely used the actual gate. :)

...... Kendra

Yes, the eight doors to the conference room will rotate to open, in synch - assuming I can rig it correctly. Likewise I'll try to rig the two sliding doors to the intra-city transporter (the trapezoid-shaped elevator-like thing).

Started on the geometry for the central window. The light grey pieces on the right side will be extruded to form the wall; that's only partially done. The horizontal lines in the glass won't show -or at least shouldn't- in a render; those lines are just cutting the glass surface into quads for UV mapping. I hope to get the tiny mosiac pattern on the glass using an image map. The glass will have thickness for rendering with caustics enabled.

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Nice. I wish I had your talent. Have you seen the new Atlantis season 6 comic books?

...... Kendra

No, didn't even know season 6 existed, even in comic book form. I have seasons 1-5 on DVD. I don't have TV service (or a TV), but I can watch DVDs on a commercial monitor.

Current state of the central window - not UV mapped yet, or I'd have tried projecting that yellow/red mosaic pattern onto the glass.

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Having UV mapped the window and wall, I projected the yellow/red stained glass mosaic onto the glass surface. Bear in mind that this is only a Silo screengrab, not a Poser render; it shows alignment of the image map onto the mesh, but there is no lightcasting, ambient occlusion, caustics, bump, etc.

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Atlantis gate room progress: I'll need to make a lot of cutaway panels strategically placed to allow for Poser camera access.

I have the Silo perspective camera setting on the main stair landing, looking up to see the lower part of the jumper bay shaft.

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I've been UV mapping, and applying some rough test maps in Silo to check for UV strain, and check scale and alignment.

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More UV mapping work, checking alignment of Alterran text etc.:

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Silo guy in the intracity transporter - the doors are ghosted so that you can see inside:

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The exterior balcony. I don't have the geometric pattern for the windows yet. I'll need to make exterior wall pieces above and below the level where Silo guy is standing; that will allow for renders with this camera perspective.

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Nice. That is really looking good.

...... Kendra

I deleted the main stairs and rebuilt it, because I realized that the steps have projecting front edges. I deleted and rebuilt the filigree trim on the bannisters astride the main stairs. For the third time, I deleted the gate window and rebuilt it, this time to match my geometry to RogueDragon's gate window stained glass.

I'm debating what to do about the columns with umpteen "chiclet" lights; the low-poly versions will just have areas which glow, as seen in the previous posts' screenshots. I'd prefer to use columns which have chiclets which actually project outward, but that will add significantly to the poly count. I suppose that I could save out both versions, and everybody use the higher-poly version if your machine has sufficient memory.

Poll for all who intend to use this: Are you 64bit? How much RAM does your machine have?

Texturing maps:

2D drawing is not my forte', so I'll gladly abdicate those to anyone who wants to contribute. RogueDragon's stained glass are an immense help. I'll need to gather templates and zip them up to work from. I could use the gnomonic navigation line pattern seen on the floor of the gate dias (does the rest of the floor have that?) Bump or normal map for those control room "piano" workstations would be useful - I haven't got the mesh formed yet, though. The bump pattern for those little squares where the bannister filigree strands intersect. Monitor images - there are several monitors in the control room, and what they display would be specific for a given situation. Pretty much anything you can think of which will need a particular texture or bump.

Regarding a holo room: Perhaps the best way to deal with this is to switch furnishings; default would be the conference room (table, chairs, and monitor on a stand), alternate would make it the holo room (control podium). The holo room will need a special effects mesh for holographic projection, so I'll add that, and I can also make materials to make a doll a refractive ghost.

column with 3D chiclets:

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I like the column with the chicklet lights. The lights on the column definitely projected out where the stairs were inset. Both of my systems are 64 bit and I'll be happy to tackle any texturing you want to send my way. I haven't done that in ages but it would be fun. The floor had a pattern to it, I remember that and there are tons of reference images online to follow.

...... Kendra

I prefer the 3D chiclets too. A major reason is because I foresee that the 3D chiclets will cast light not just outward but also back onto the column, whereas the version which is just a masked material area of the column surface itself will not. I can minimize the polycount increase by removing the backside polys (already done!) and deleting any chiclets which are on the other side of the set's walls. I'm installing chiclets now, but I'll keep a copy of the low-poly column on the hard drive in case it's needed.

I'll also put together a pack of templates, and post a d/l link when ready.

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The columns now have 3D chiclets! 4.368 of them, totaling a little under 75,000 polys. Of course, any camera shot will only see a fraction of them.

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Here is a download link for several templates Atlantis templates 02 for anyone who would like to contribute texture maps.

Plan view of the set:

I've been UV mapping -often UV unwrapping- everything, and equalizing the scale of the separate pieces of wall, etc. By golly, we might actually get this finished.

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wall sconce light:

template for wall sconce:

Some more Atlantis templates: Atlantis templates 02

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Got em. But many overlap, what program are you using to generate the templates?

...... Kendra

I used UV Mapper Pro 3.5c to make the templates.

If the overlapping pieces are different colors, then they are different material zones and do not affect each other. For example, the central hall ceiling (lower than most, because it is under the main stair landing) is under and overlaps the mezzanine level ceiling template.

But they are different material zones, so what is applied to the central lower hall ceiling will not conflict with what is applied to the mezzanine ceiling.

Similarly, the robin's egg blue areas of the dias map shows flat/horizontal areas (dias floor and step treads). The stair riser template (green and red) overlaps, but they are different material zones; you can draw lines onto the dias map and ignore the stair riser maps. Use the green and red stair riser maps if you want to make your own Alterran text masks, and ignore the dias, bannister, and bannister light templates.

If this method grates on you -everybody has their own way of doing things- I'll soon be able to send "final candidate" OBJ parts if you want to make your own single-material templates. Alternatively, I could try to get UV Mapper Pro 3.5c to output single-material templates, but I don't know if it does that, or how to do so.

This evening got started on a control room piano...

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If I select the other four material zones and slide them out of the 0-1 UV block, I can get a template of just the single material zone for the dias, ramps, and stair treads. Pain in the rear and high potential for screwing up an OBJ, though.

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OK, I realize that it's only easy for me because I'm already intimately familiar with the geometry, and the floor templates are particularly confusing. I made separate templates for:

[_] dias, ramps, and dias step treads

[_] main landing and its step treads

[_] "ground level" floor (to the sides of the gate dias) and the lower halls, with the mezzanine floor template superimposed (but different color)

download link -> Atlantis floor templates

My intent with the combined 1st floor & mezzanine template is that you can either make a single map which would be used for both floors, or you can make separate maps for each floor.

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Template for the ceiling material zones (cliick the magnifying glass icon to enlarge it - it's 2048x2048)

If it got reduced by Photobucket, then download the 2048x2048 template from Dropbox: Atlantis ceiling template

The mezzanine level ceiling template is overlaid onto the 1st floor halls ceiling template, with the intention that a single "gnomonic navigation lines" texture image should work for both.

Here's where the ceiling sections are located in 3D space:

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Ok, got it. Having the images for reference will help and it will be easier with a model to test them on. Been a while since I've textured anything like this. :) I'll start playing this week. :)

...... Kendra

@Kendra: As time permits, I'll get some OBJs (floors, walls, ceilings) packed up so you can check your texture placement. I'd need to do some geometry extraction to get simplified templates of the stargate, but that's on my list.

Here's another texture project for any takers: apply the constellation glyphs to the triangular buttons of the DHD, and/or make bump/normal maps for the decorative geometric patterns of the "piano" surfaces and the little grey end panels of that low profile monitor. Also need B&W circuit board style masks for those control crystal tablets. Hopefully, I can get the "piano" workstation OBJ posted this evening. I'll also make a workstation without the DHD; it will simply have more control crystals. The mapping will be the same.

From top to bottom, these are the DHD buttons (need star pattern glyphs), control crystals (need B&W masks with circuit board type paterns), keyboard keys (already done, but feel free to improve), and the piano body with the low profile monitor at the top of the last template.

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Aaaarghh! I have one too many rows of buttons on the DHD; ignore the three triangles in the top row; those have now been deleted.

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OBJ download link: floors, ceilings, gate, and piano

Templates for the stargate:

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@Anybody who may be planning on doing a bump/normal map for the "piano" workstation chassis: hold off, I need to make corrections which will require re-mapping the mesh. I need to add the gently glowing orange panels on the rear of the chassis. While I'm at it, I will change how the mesh is broken up for UV mapping so as to avoid seams across areas where we would want bump mapping. That will make it easier. You can go on and do the star glyphs for the DHD triangular buttons, the circuit patterns for the control crystals, and the keyboard keys. But for the piano chassis, wait for the revision.

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updated OBJ download link: ancient workstations

chassis template:

corrected DHD template:

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workstation "pianos" in the control room:

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From a TV screengrab, I noticed that there is a light panel trough alongside the main steps. In other words, there is a gap between the side end of each step and the bannister, with a glowing strip in that gap. Since the main staircase is so prominent, I want to correct that. If I do, I'll need to re-map the stair risers for text alignment.

Question: Should I also re-map the gate dias, the main landing, and all of the step treads (all of those horizontal surfaces) so that they are all UV-projected in correct relationship to each other? If those navigation lines also go over the stair treads, then it would make texturing easier.

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This is the proposed revision to the dias/stair remapping; what do you think? (the four loose triangles are the side skirts of the ramps leading from the gate dias down to the rear hallways)

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Download link for OBJs and larger (2048p) template of the remapped dias and staircase with new troughlights

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From DVD screengrabs, I see that this other type of sconce light is used beside the balcony doors and within the control room. I'm referring to it as the "sconce pillar".

Template for sconce pillar:

Note: The glow panels of the wall sconce and the glow panels of the sconce pillar share the same UV mapping, so only one "circuits" texture will be needed; both light types will use the same glow panel map.

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Looking good. I'll download and play some tomorrow after I finish my daughters wedding photos. I should have a completely free day if the nearby fire doesn't get worse. :)

...... Kendra

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First test renders... I imported some pieces into Poser. Still haven't finished breaking up the set into what will be separate Poser props (to allow for hiding walls, etc for camera access).

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Coming along nicely.

I played with this texture a bit today. This is a SuperFly render. It's unfinished and still needs work and I meant to do more but I've been under the weather. I'm not happy with the console texture and plan to fix that tomorrow. Let me know what you all think. :)

...... Kendra

Hooray! The circuit detailing for the control crystals is good, as is the constellation detail on the DHD. I'll add the glowing effect to your textures - and to those burnt orange panels in the chassis.

I already have a lettering mask for that keyboard. The Asgard communication stone is UV mapped to make it fairly easy to add Futharken lettering around the side. I may already have a raw UFO file started for that.

Anyone who's game, we'll need a bump map for that geometric pattern on the piano chassis sides/back/legs.

I'm trying to draw a cleaner engraving bump map at 4096x4096 for the stargate, but my old 32bit PhotoImpact X3 program pops up an "insufficient memory" warning sometimes. This workstation (Urania) has 48GB; I should shop for a 64bit photo manipulation & drawing program, but I hate to have to learn a different program from scratch.

I'm just about finished with saving OBJ assemblies from Silo. I've been trying to be careful about breaking it up with the idea of being able to hide a piece so as to allow camera access.

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PhotoImpact X3 succeeded in producing a larger redrawn bump map for the stargate's engraving. Compare to the similar render a few posts above.

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I have a passable, not great, bump map for the piano.

Bear in mind that this is a work-in-progress test render; some texturing is missing (no "circuit" masks or fresnel on the control crystals nor on the wall sconce lights; no bump for the holoscreen frame, disproportionate bump on the hex chiclet columns (ceramic grain bump is too strong, groove bump is too weak).

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I think it looks good. I'm still feeling sick but when I get to my desktop i'll attach the dhd and circuit texture I was playing with and you may be able to improve it. btw, what program are you using to model?

...... Kendra

Kendra posted at 1:45PM Thu, 18 August 2016 - #4280329

...what program are you using to model?

Silo 2.3.1, which is now 64bit. I use UV Layout to UV-unwrap complex shapes, and UV Mapper Pro for simple shapes.

I've been importing the parts into Poser, and while working up materials found several mistakes, returned to Silo to fix them, then re-import to Poser. I think the mapping and material zones are OK now, so I'll soon be making a beta pack for you to play with. Several materials will yet need adjusted/corrected, and some haven't even been started, but it will be enough to make some renders with.

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Another test render - a bright morning in Atlantis.

Among other things, I don't like the look of the bannister corner lights (texture-wise). I haven't gotten the conference doors installed yet.

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This still lacks some texturing, Poser will look for some (four?) obsolete JPGs and for Lorenzo Lores (just skip those searches), the geometry is not extracted from the PP2s, and there is only one of each type door. The rear (balcony) window is set for night, but the front (gate) window is cranked up for day shots.

I did at least include the material files which are in my library, which have day & night versions of the balcony window (only the ambient strength is different) and day/night versions for the construct.

So, this is a beta release.

Free for both personal and commercial renders, do not redistribute. Be nice.

Atlantis gate room - Aug19 beta

Note that the set is broken up into several pieces, with the intent that you can hide a piece to allow for camera access, and/or hide/delete any pieces which are not in your render if you're tight on memory. Post any errors you see or if you feel some change needs to be made.

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If anyone is going to try a test render, be aware of the following mistakes I found today:

[1] The construct; Go to runtimelibrariesmaterials Superfly matsAtlantis, and apply "construct ground - sea" MT5 to the ground material zone, and apply "construct bg - Sky Aglow 270" MT5 to the background material zone.

[2] The bumper ledge in Weir's office didn't get textured (still has the "concrete" from Silo assigned, which Poser can't find); apply the "bumper w script" MT5.

[3] Jumper bay shaft is poorly textured, but I cranked a asymmetrical seamless tile with matching normal map using Genetica, and from the rough beginning of a test render, the new jumper bay shaft texture looks good. So don't worry about that.

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I was setting up a test render of the intracity transporter (the elevator-like thing) this morning, and spotted an errant thin vertical strip polygon inside the transporter. The errant poly is part of the OBJ02 side wall assembly; I have already fixed that in Silo.

From these test renders, I see that the bump on the bannister filigree needs to be softened. I don't know what should go in that ground floor area under the office door. Should there be a door there somewhere? The set is modular, so I can make corrections without re-doing the whole model. These renders show the new -and definitely improved- texture for the jumper bay shaft.

This morning, I'm working up materials and setting up test renders for the lower halls and the intracity transporter.

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Lower halls; you can get interior shots like this by hiding (click the "eye" icon in the hierarchy panel) a piece of wall. This is necessary because in this shot, it looks as if you are standing very near the hexagonal pillar, but the Poser camera is twenty feet behind you, and outside of the exterior wall.

The intracity transporter:

Belatedly, I saw in a screengrab that the doorway openings in the lower hall are shaped rather like the transporter doors. I can make a replacement assembly which features that, and even if it's after release, y'all can simply delete the old lower hall partition assembly and add the new one.

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The stage looks awesome!!!

Thank you, HBorre! ^^

Anybody decent at illustrator type drawing? We could use a stained glass map for these doors.
My Silo model:

Enhanced screengrab:

1024p template:

Lantean door kit - zip has OBJ, 2048p template, and the screengrab

Oh, I reworked the lower hall partitions. Here is a test render, with a Silo screengrab superimposed:

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Looks awesome. I'll have to start over on the texture I was working on. My hardrive took a nose dive. I'm waiting for a sata to usb cable to see if I can get any of my data off it while I wait for a new ssd to arrive. I'm getting a 404 on the link though. Could you post it again?

...... Kendra

This is looking really awesome. :-)

Thank you, David.

@Kendra -and any other beta testers/contributors: Four download links below.

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Atlantis gate room - Aug 22 beta - PZ3 in runtime library, so you already have cameras. One copy of the new Lantean door is in the transporter, viewable through "dollycam transporter". I'll probably re-work each hall level exterior doorway to take a pair of these doors.

Lantean door kit - has OBJ, 2048 template, and screengrab

Useful screengrabs to guide texturing

some Atlantis templates

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A not terribly interesting test render: normal mapped surface texturing of the metal filigree on the bannister, and of the bannister corner light bezels. Boring work, but these details need to be dialed in.

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Let me try again for the template pack...

Atlantis templates

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I've changed three assemblies, deleting the old rectangular doorways and installing pocketed doorways for sliding pairs of Lantean doors, in these three locations:

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You did really, really good with this. I've been playing with it and I'm waiting on a render now, when I'm happy with it I'll post it. But seriously, good job. I'm in fan art heaven with this. Now I just need to work on my characters.

...... Kendra

Dear me, that looks spectacular!

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Thank you, SamTherapy! And thank you, Kendra! I tried drawing a stained glass map for the Lantean doors; it's passable, but I'm sure someone else could do better. Also, trying out a Fresnel effect on the hex column chiclets, so as to avoid that whiteout on the column, and to show the chiclet edges and give them some shape (avoiding the silhouette appearance). Softened the illumination of the transporter control buttons. Enhanced the grooves in the hex columns, but the finer swirled stipple pattern is still not showing.

I also drew a stained glass pattern for the balcony door; it's, um, well, better than nothing. That is the Aug25 version of the balcony door. I'll put together an OBJ & template pack for the balcony door and the big doors off to the side of the gate dias (I call them the Furling doors). There is also a fine-grained bump pattern on the wall sconce light pillar, but at this distance I can't see it. The glow panel in the low wall of the main stair landing is way over bright; I'll dial that down to a gentle "nightlight" glow, so that the inset depth shows. I used a random circuit motherboard pattern across all of the control crystals of the piano just to be able to see if the differential brightness works (it does). I'll wait for your control crystal map. Oh, I need to add Fresnel to the control crystals, to emphasise their shape. The Asgard communication stone will get some Futharken script around the perimeter.

I'm working on the triangular conference room table this morning.

Glass template for Aug25 Furling doors:

Template for Aug25 balcony doors:

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The next beta will have a bit of extended hex column and Lantean doorway for the stairway leading from the control room up to the jumper bay. The door controls will be rotated 90' and placed on the bit of wall beside the door, not on the side wall as shown here.

I noticed that the raised and inset panels on the big doors (off to the side of the central dias) get smoothed too much in Poser; I'm going to try breaking edges to retain the shape.

And the lack of periodic vertical bands in the bumper glow strips has been solved; apparently the UVs got hosed at some point, but I've UV-unwrapped all of them together, so that the UV scale and orientation agree. Once I re-assemble the parts and do a test render, we'll know if that succeeded. Got chairs. Need to make un-wheeled versions for the little raised dias, so that no Poser folk roll off backward and break their neck. The Asgard communication stone's text didn't show, but that'll be easy to fix.

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Test render of the exterior balcony (RogueDragon's stained glass art on the main windows)...

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In the piano render two posts above, look at the vertical surfaces of the little dias in the control room; it should have the same material as the horizontal surfaces (and floor); the UVs got destroyed somehow. I needed to delete that piece of geometry from the mezzanine assembly, UV map the vertical dias surfaces, scale those UVs to match that of the rest of the mezzanine, then recombine it with the mezzanine assembly. Done.

I finally got a soft edge to that periodic break in the pale blue glow strips of the "bumper" (those projecting ledges). I added those gnomonic navigation lines to the floors/ceilings, but in the test renders (posted below) I noticed that a couple of them don't quite line up; that has already been fixed.

The stained glass patterns on the big windows (gate window and balcony window) were done by RogueDragon; the Atlantis logo on the chairs was done by Ponkes; if I don't get permission to use Ponkes' logo drawing in the set, I'll use the distributable logo from the Stargate wiki.

Once I'm satisfied that the geometry, UVs, etc are all correct, then I'll begin to save prop files of the assemblies, strip out OBJs, reset origins for things which move, and try to get the conference doors ERCed to pivot open in unison. That way, all eight conference doors will call a single OBJ; likewise for chairs and such.

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Finally got that fine grained surface texture on the hex columns:

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Furnishings for Weir's office:

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A milestone, of sorts; this morning I saved the prop assemblies and went through the process of extracting OBJs. I'm now working with a model which has remotely referenced geometry. Now I can begin setting origins, duplicating doors and chairs, etc. Hopefully I can get the conference room doors to rotate open in unison.

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This is some cool stuff!

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Thank you, dlfurman!

Rigged the chairs to rock back and forth (the caster chair also swivels and tilts). Set up dependent parameters for the file cabinet drawer and the pairs of sliding doors, and for the conference room doors. Thanks to Shvrdavid for the tut on dependent parameters!

Links to see demo GIF: conference room door demo (Photobucket) or conference room door demo (Deviant Art)

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Those doors look incredible.

So.. Need a Jumper.. P90... Rodney "is he scared enough yet" McKay.....

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Thanks, guys.

Poorly-rendered test of the stable wormhole event horizon "puddle":

stargate puddle

I'll set up a full render of the puddle and a full render of the "ka-whoosh!" running overnight; if they come out passable, then we're done.

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Stable wormhole established. Approaching the stargate puddle...

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Puddle test 5. Better, I think. Opinions?

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Ka-whoosh!

Approaching the gate puddle (new puddle material)...

Time to start cleaning up and packing.

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Atlantis rising...

Five zips are posted in my ShareCG album. You'll need all five for a complete Atlantis playset.

Atlantis

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When I merged two zips, OBJs and libraries folder, into a part 1 zip, I misplaced the libraries folder so that they are in a runtime within the runtime. I have uploaded a corrected part 1 zip marked as "SR1". Sorry for the error;:oops: either move the libraries folder or download the corrected SR1 zip for package 1.

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Finally, I managed to get a render finished. :) A re-creation of the scene when the gateroom flooded. Still working on the character and the clothing textures but so glad for seachnasaigh's awesome work on this scene. Thank you again.

...... Kendra

What doll base and clothing is that?

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M4 and I think the outfit is from poserworld.

...... Kendra

This project started in the thread "Giving you your props"

The Atlantis gate room playset is in the R'osity freestuff.

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Wow thats awesome work, is it possible to get a copy of that Atlantis model?

It was in the last post listed Atlantis, but here it is again.

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The Atlantis gateroom is available as one big zip in Renderosity freestuff:

Atlantis

It is also available as a set of five smaller zips at ShareCG:

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You wouldn't have a model of Deep Space Nine, would you?

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that's just gorgeous

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Not bad, but I was thinking more of an interior shot, like the Promenade, a random station corridor, or even Ops.