Direction : Olympus Mons by dickbill
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Description
Mission : Explore Lava tubes caves on the south eastern slope of Olympus Mons. Some geothermic and hydrothermal activity may still be present and useful to set up future Martian farming facilities.
The South East slope of Olympus is still distant of about 1000 km of the glider. The rocket propulsed glider contains a Sabatier reactor and an electrolyser to refuel in Methane and Oxygen after landing.
For those interested, previous pictures of this story are in the Imagine gallery.
Olympus Mons has been generated from a MOLA 1/64 degre elevation map imported with 3DEM software and rendered in terragen. Glider modelized and textured in LW7.5/Aura. Rendered in LW7.5.
Comments (9)
dickbill
My first LW post. Comments welcome.
shadowdragonlord
It's not bad at all! A very cool rendition of "The Mountain".... Hope to see more Ares works from you!
Django
Cool , i love mars, I have done a DEM render of it a year ago lol ,the marineris region. I like the lonly desertscape and the uninhabited feel ;) A Tip : Get a Photopgraph of approximately the same region and try to fit it as surface in lightwave when you have exported the terrain from terragen, it will simulate the different colors of the geological formations. The sky should be more redish too .. Nitpicking , but it could add more realism Well done
Fillingim
Cool post more!!! Django I think has given you some good pointers too!! :)
bobbystahr
well i guess it will take time to get them to the quality of your Imagine renders,but it's nice to see you keeping Mars alive after your program shift...nice model of the ship by the by
dickbill
absolutely bobby, I have several problems: texturing for example, but the biggest is the volumetrics. If you check my last pic in Imagine, the blue flame of the exhaust is a pure 3d Volumetric object, no post process. I have no idea yet how just to aproximate that in LW. With time I'll learn I guess. BTW, guys, the LW renderer engine is great. The way LW deals with lights is absolutely amazing. Thanks for comments all.
earle
your scene scares me. Your deep dark ocean draws me in to your work. I love it!
Moebius87
Splendid work... hauntingly beautiful composition. Very cinematographic. :o)
technogeek
Plane reminds me of the Voyager when it flew around the world nonstop. Looove it! ;-)