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Sep 2 2006, 05:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 2-September 06 Member No.: 1097 |
hello.. i am trying to model in 3d the mars rover and can't find the correct material, so I was wondering whether anyone in here has access to more information than I do and cares to help.
I am looking for detailed pictures of rover parts from all sides (top, left, right and bottom). I am attaching a few pics for the members to see the progress of my work. Trying to be as accurate as possible. Process is really slow since I have to make stuff out of bad reference pics I've tried collecting material from the nasa site, from raw images coming from the rover, from roobtics' sites etc, but couldn't come up with the correct reference i am seeking. if anyone cares to help, please do so -------------------- |
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Jan 31 2008, 09:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 2-September 06 Member No.: 1097 |
hmm... looks like I won't have to. there seemed to be an error of some kind with a specific surface in the model. Let alone the memory run out errors, I managed to locate this surface that caused the program to just exit without an error message. anyway, it took some time even before it started rendering but results are quite promising. sorry, there's a thing that seems to float in front of the left rocker-bogie, it was supposed to be under the warm box. anyway...
moreover I came across useful reference that i've been looking for over a year! i found reference of the pancam mast base AND a little help for the hga cable mounting bracket. however, the only thing so far I am not happy with is the hga cable mounting bracket, so if anyone has any sort of reference, let me know. enough said, here it is... comments welcome as always.. -------------------- |
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Feb 1 2008, 05:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Simply brillant, happy to see you solved the issue.
comments welcome as always.. I think that most of us will say "stunning" and "bravo!", at least. This work is a great example of patience and love and the result clearly show that was worth to dedicate so much resources to it. We had the privilege to see it growing up and now that is almost finished I feel emotionally involved, even though my personal contribution was only in terms of encouraging words... Congrats again! PS: any idea about possible applications when model will be completed with textures? Perhaps, the most immediate one is to do some rendering using real MER panoramas as background or even detailed digital terrain models, if available... (an UMSF "Roving Mars"? ) -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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