Building a Home Away from Home by Dootz

Bryce • Science Fiction • posted on Jul 15, 2008

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Trying to present an idea of life aboard the "Expansion Pack" has been a challenge - both in trying to work with land and water around the inside of a cylinder, and also in trying to present the idea without making it too busy. I hope I pulled it off. (Yes - it's huge) You may recognize the buildings - Dystopia exported as objects from DAZ. I kept crashing the PC trying to build my own within this thing. Enjoy the fantasy of a home that only Halo's Master Chief could love.

Comments (8)

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vncnt9663

10:58PM | Tue, 15 July 2008

I like your Ring World. I keep trying to build one of my own. It never seems to look right. Ether the scale is off or the atmosphere doesn't look right. Your Monorail is a nice touch.

VegeBrain

11:11PM | Tue, 15 July 2008

Neat picture! It reminds me of the Orbitals in Ian Banks' Culture novels. Here's the Wikipedia entry that has more information about Orbitals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(The_Culture) I'm reading Ian Banks' book Player of Games right now in fact.

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moonbunnie

4:33AM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Wow excellent work , looks wonderful!

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Biffowitz

5:44AM | Wed, 16 July 2008

I think you've pulled it off quite nicely. Good use of the planet, and a superb texture to go along with it. I like the self contained cities, especially the one in the foreground, reminds me of SinCity. Nice work indeed!

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TheBryster

11:22AM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Excellent work. Nicely presented.

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pakled

8:40PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

yup...Niven would be proud...

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Dootz

9:42PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

The same concept has shown up in so many places: Larry Niven's Ringworld, Iain Banks' series about the Culture, Bungie Studios' Halo game, etc. I'm sure I was influenced to a degree by these and others. It's only logical - if you can't make gravity, fake it with inertia. I know building something this big is about as far fetched as trying to terraform a planet with no magnetosphere - Mars is DOA with no pulse or respiration (check out Gilbabin's gallery for some awesome renders of a terraformed Mars). But, dreaming of the impossible is what sparks our innovations. Humanity has spent the last century turning science fiction into fact.

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