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Approaching Saturn.

Blender3D Space posted on Oct 29, 2019
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This is just a test before I get ready to render an animation of this little ship using its instruments to gather data from Saturn. Years ago I thought it would be a good idea to build a model of Saturn in Blender, complete with rings specially UV-Mapped to take a long thin texture, perhaps just one pixel high, and wrap it around the entire ring system. Well I got that to work. The data on the rings that I wanted was hard to come by, but eventually I found some on a NASA web site. This required a lot of processing, except for the colour data which was easily found. I used a NASA map for Saturn, then some of their data to make a transparency map, a reflectivity map and a colour map for the rings. I will make this available as an .obj file eventually, with texture maps for both the rings and Saturn itself. At the moment I am still working on improving the accuracy.

Comments (5)


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RodS

9:06PM | Tue, 29 October 2019

Really excellent work on this, my friend! NASA has so much cool stuff... I really need to spend a couple days re-exploring - it's been too long.

fireangel

10:35PM | Tue, 29 October 2019

NASA gives away a lot, including 3D models of many of their spacecraft and experimental vehicles. It is well worth checking the current state of their give-aways at least once a year or every six months if you do a lot of space renders.

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lwperkins

8:57AM | Wed, 30 October 2019

The rings look so good! I love the transparency of the inner ring.

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giulband

1:54AM | Sun, 22 March 2020

Good test, beautiful image

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Madbat

2:42PM | Tue, 07 April 2020

Oh.My.

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tyllo

5:04AM | Sat, 16 May 2020

Nicely done. Very cool composition!


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