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This may sound odd, but I had grown quite fond of the untextured model - white and perfect. But these new renders look so gorgeous! It's like the mother of all clean rooms, pristine parts up close and we don't even have to wear bunny suits.
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Dec 24 2011, 05:02 PM
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Thanks! Well, I know that you people didn't know what to expect, texturing needs a lot of work as well, if you had previously seen my site then you should have known what quality to expect. Let alone that during the 5 years in the making I learned a lot of stuff, especially modeling-wise, but also texturing and rendering techniques. Now that I am finalizing everything as I go on texturing I see so many errors and things I would have done differently if I had started now. I can see that my experience is +10 levels
I am glad I live up to your expectations and even exceed them!
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Dec 27 2011, 05:49 AM
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Hello everyone and happy holidays! New render for your pleasure.. the micro-imager..
 Next render will take a while, I will post when I am done with the whole idd. Comments welcome as always! -------------------- |
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Dec 27 2011, 06:28 AM
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Any comments I would make would only be obscene in a good way, and hardly productive (though redoubtedly complementary in intent).
 Astonishing. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 27 2011, 08:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 2-September 06 Member No.: 1097 |
Thanks, I am flattered as always!
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Dec 27 2011, 04:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
Did you ever get any help from someone at NASA, or is it all still what you've deduced from looking at official photos?
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Dec 27 2011, 09:17 PM
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I sent emails to any company I could find that took part in the rover (eg honeybee robotics, etc), but I only got reference not found online (at least I couldn't find it) just for the idd, everything else can be found online. I mainly used the jpl library, the documentaries (martian robots, roving mars, death of mars rover, etc), the sol photos, pdfs and manuals found online for various mechanisms (eg how the idd is held on the belly of the rover, the rocker-bogie extenders, etc), small cad references for various parts. It was really exhausting, as I have already said in many parts of this thread, it was hundreds of hours of staring-comparing-measuring and a few hours of modeling. It was really painful but the result is rewarding, I was obsessed with it. Most people would be happy with just scarce details but I wanted this project to be as accurate as it could.
In my opinion people should be more excited and awed by my perception, patience and ability to measure and compare rather than my modeling skills in this particular project. -------------------- |
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Dec 27 2011, 10:22 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Trust me, many people are.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 28 2011, 12:12 AM
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Yes, this looks awesome and extremely detailed (and I thought the POV-Ray model of Cassini I did roughly 10 years ago was detailed - compared to this it isn't). Must be a *huge* amount of work.
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Dec 28 2011, 01:05 AM
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I have both good and bad news today.. good news is that my new ram has arrived, now on 12gb
 It's not needed at this point but it will be needed soon...Bad news is that I am having serious problems with current versions of software, the textures on my items keep failing every now and then and I can't pinpoint why this happens. Very frustrating along with the texture mapping problems. Can't go back to previous versions because I have a lot of work in this particular file version that can't be read in previous versions of the program. Better than not being able to handle the file at all I guess. :/ Anyway, new renders probably tomorrow.. -------------------- |
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Jan 4 2012, 10:14 PM
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Scooterlord,
Have you tried contacting the company? I know I'd drop everything I was working on to help out someone doing something this awesome.
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
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Jan 4 2012, 10:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 2-September 06 Member No.: 1097 |
Hey...
well, it's beta, problems are supposed to occur, and corruption is supposed to happen now and then. Luckily I have hundreds of backups so everything is well! I know I promised you a new render a few days back.. it's coming soon, rendering at the background atm. I hope you'll like it! Patience until tomorrow...
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Jan 4 2012, 10:51 PM
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 Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
I seriously doubt we won't like it
-------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
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Jan 5 2012, 10:21 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 2-September 06 Member No.: 1097 |
First of all, happy new year! Forgot to mention it earlier!
Well, people, here is the new render! Excuse the bug with the flag on the rat..  Comments always welcome! -------------------- |
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Jan 5 2012, 11:15 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Brilliant!
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