I love it! Great job on this one. Texture is amazing! Only suggestion is that the engines on the back should be lit up.

was wondering about the rust, thought my god how much rain is there in space cool image but that ship would never pass an MOT, body works gone mate, trade it in for the new ford delta-mach 1, top marks, heard that a few times on here everyone go's back to Bryce cause it's so easy to learn

Ozylot, I did consider and even rendered a version with lit up engines But it just didn't seem to work as well.

Really excellent done!!!bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx

i think it's pretty damn good. the textures are top notch and the lighting great! :)

Great job! You might make use of the inner buildings by showing different views, etc. This is reminiscent of Arthur Clarke's 'Rendezvous with Rama'. The object in the book didn't have rust (which I think looks cool btw) but did have a large blackened spot where something had hit it along the way.

Mats are amazing, Nice render!!

Excellent done,klasse image!!!!!

most excellent

Wonderfull old spaceship !!! Excellent impressive textures & render !! XXXXX

Excellent job. I would never have thought you could do this level of modelling in Bryce. Well done!

Outstanding !

Beautiful. If the ship were constructed out of spare parts on some planet and then put into space it might be rusty.

"Inside the tube is quite detailed buildings and stuff" - Shades of Rama perhaps? :) Love the textures. Nice render.

I like the rust, I think it looks great in the render. Since space age paint and steel is generally considered to be high in quality and well mantained (after all even a pin prick hole in the hull would be fatal in terms of mantaining atmosphere) so the rust is an ominous sign. If you couple this with the silent engines, one might begin to imagion possible story lines that would explain the derelict condition of the ship. Perhaps, as suggested it spent a long and neglected stay on a planet with an atmosphere highly condusive to rust, such as a jungle world for example. It's possible that a salvage crew is now taking the ship back either for repair or for scrap value, or that a group of adventurers forced to abandon there own ship have gotten the beaten down old ship up and running for the journey home. The ship appears to be running silent on enertia alone, perhaps being sucked towards the bright light which might be a sun, a gateway, or... well who can say? The point is that this inspires imagionation with it's possiblities for different stories, I like it! Well done! ^^

all that matters is the craft, the tools aren't as important (heresy, I know..but..;) hey, great pic.

When your using a rotating tube to simulate gravitational effects you need to coast with the engines off most of the time. Fire up the engines and suddenly your whole landscape tries to slide out the rear of the ship. Also makes it real miserable to turn the vessel. Water and loose dirt, etc. sloshing around everywhere! If one spent a while in orbit around Jupiter or Saturn I expect you'd start to see a lot of corroded paint as there are a lot of chemicals floating around that region (water ice, sulfur compounds, etc.) We tend to think of space as empty but particularly in lower planetary orbits there tends to be just enough dust particles and larger grit that there is "erosion". Takes a fair amount of polishing to bring the space shuttle surface back up to specs between missions.

Beautiful spaceship render Phil! When we're on a Hyperborean planet and looking up to wards a cloudless sky at night, we can see your rusted beauty paying us a visit ;-) W&M

Wonderful mats.. good to see you back in Bryce, you heretic! :)

Don't know why you'd want the engines lit up, the ship is obviously coasting at just under light speed.

Love the perspective/camera angle mmmhhh is it a drift or on light/warpspeed or.....????

Neat ship, I once read that deep space is not a true vacumm and there is a hydrogen atom about every 8 inches. Maybe the hydrogen has a corrosive effect to that exotic metal of you ship's skin. If the ship is traveling fast enough it may would even feel a breeze. OR, you could use rust mat because it looks neat like you did.

Great render! Like the spaceship model. About the rust, I guess it could be any number of reasons, such as if the ship had been in the atmosphere of a humid world, or some sort of Venus-like world with a corrosive atmosphere. Maybe trade led it into deep into oceans, or maybe the engine which enables intersteller travel opens some sort of vortex that causes condensation along the hull, and after centuries rust had formed. Maybe it's not actually rust, but dust from planets and stuff it had drifted near (like in the movie "2010".) The paint on the hull could have flaked off over time exposing the dark/rust looking alloy underneath. Anyway, whatever the reason for "rust" on a spaceship, one thing the texture is doing to this viewer is making his mind travel along with ship. I truly hope to see this spacecraft again!

From 'Rendezvous With Rama' perhaps?

Rama is obviously a source (althouh I didn't really like the books), Greg Bear also had similar ideas, but I think I got the idea from O'Neill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder

love it! still has a carrara-ish feel! I betcha the rust is from the solar wind and all the attendant neutrino-erosion

Well,render is fantastic and mats are great!!!

I like it! I agree with you, the texture looks very cool. After having Vue, I've been neglecting my Bryce child as well. Just can't seem to find the will to open it up. Then again, I wasn't as good in it as you are. Very cool render.

Cool ship. Don't know about the rust, but have recieved numerous comments on my ships that they "need some weathering". That it looks cool is a perfectly adequate reason for using a texture. Makes the ship look like it's been around the galaxy a few times. There may not be much H2O in space but there is plenty of water on that ship which can find it's way out onto the hull (although in tha vacuum of space I believe it would instantly vaporize). Peace

Lots of nice ideas for rust - if an pre Imperium ship in Warhammer 40K universe - could haev been corrupted in the warp by Nurgle - Rust being a metalic version of rot!? or not nice pic