Mars Landing by geirla

Bryce • Science Fiction • posted on Jan 15, 2011

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Thanks for the comments on the last images. Here's another one in the same series. I'm glad DAZ has started to add features to Bryce, but they still have a long way to go with instancing. It made it easier to drop about 800 rocks into the scene, but those rocks had no real idea about how to place themselves. So the good news is that instancing saves lots of memory. The bad news is that it's no easier than before to get partially buried rocks of different sizes and orientations. I'm not 100% happy with the sky either, but I'm going to call it Mars-ish enough. (One note of clarification: I'm a second place winner in Writers of the Future. Still counts as a publishing credit with the Science Fiction Writers of America, still gets me prize money and a week's writer's conference in LA, but I don't get a shot for the big $5000 prize.) --- After a fiery reentry through Mar's thin atmosphere, the Lander jettisons its heat shield, unfolds the landing legs and fires its main engine to slow to a gentle landing on the Red Planet. With a cargo compartment carrying an inflatable pressurized rover and a deployable solar array, the crew can remain on the Martian surface for a full month, exploring sites with twenty-five kilometers of the landing. The Expedition One Surface Sortie is only the first phase of Mars exploration and settlement. Longer stays and more distant explorations will require the landing of a MarsHab base camp. In time, multiple MarsHab modules will form the core of the first permanent settlement of Mars, but only your contributions to the Universal Expeditions Foundation can make that happen. Ask your employer today about matching contributions and automatic payroll deductions. --Excerpt from UXF promotional material, 2029.

Comments (12)

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NefariousDrO

9:36PM | Sat, 15 January 2011

That looks absolutely wonderful, you got the look of mars from the rovers and landers down pretty well, which is impressive to say the least! I love that lander, too!

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wblack

11:06PM | Sat, 15 January 2011

Really nice job on the lander. The Martian sky is really hard to do in Bryce -- but hand placing 800 boulders ... huge fun! Keep up the good work my friend.

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peedy

12:27AM | Sun, 16 January 2011

Fantastic scene! Those rocks, eh? Will they ever learn? ;-D Corrie

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TheBryster

6:34AM | Sun, 16 January 2011

Oh look! More spare parts! Congrats on your award!!! The sky is good, but the rocks need need some red in them. You can leave it till after your conference to get it off my planet.....;-)

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tse60

8:28AM | Sun, 16 January 2011

I like Mars, you've created. Cool colors ;)

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Seaview123

8:34AM | Sun, 16 January 2011

Another great looking sci-fi scene.

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kjer_99

9:50AM | Sun, 16 January 2011

Excellent render, but I wonder if the dust kicked up by the rocket engines wouldn't be much larger and higher. As I recall, it has a talcum power consistancy and with the lighter gravity, I'd think it would really stir up. As for the sky, it should be more yellow-tan-brownish. However, never having gotten a Martain sky that I liked in either Bryce or Vue, I know that we sometimes get what we get and have to live with it. Heh! (or is that Grimace?) Second place is still a very good thing.

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grafikeer

10:58AM | Sun, 16 January 2011

Greatjob on the terrain in this,you definitely captured the look that we have seen in the photos!Still working with instancing myself...not sure if your problem may have to do with how you placed the original rocks on the terrain before instancing(there are settings in the instancing lab that I am still coming to grips with that apparently help too).Nice work on the lander too!

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Bambam131

7:13AM | Mon, 17 January 2011

You are getting there but the atmosphere should be more of a butterscotch in color. The rock placement is quite hard to do as I have myself found it quite tedious to place a large number of individual rocks on a surface that has peaks and dips and not on an even plan. The trust from the rocket engine as well as the wash that comes up from the surface is also a very daunting task and is quite difficult to reproduce. I have been working on some new techniques for the engine thrust and the wash that it creates and if I get this process down I will let you know how I created the effect. Keep at it as you are definitely getting there! All the best, David

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