Mars 360 questions

Bendinggrass

Could you please help me in setting up this item. I cannot see it in the image screen so how do I set it to use other items on its surface.

Thanks.

Serene Night

It is an hdri so you will only see it in Iray preview mode. If you  can change the preview mode from what you are using to Iray that way you can see how it will look.

Charlie Judge

Serene Night said:

It is an hdri so you will only see it in Iray preview mode. If you  can change the preview mode from what you are using to Iray that way you can see how it will look.

Also be sure that 'Draw Dome' is turned on

Bendinggrass

Thank you both.

That is a great help.

Charlie Judge

Does anybody know if these HRIs are actual photographs of the Martian surface?

Serene Night

I don't believe it is. I believe it was fabricated. I think it is a good purchase though. Even when you turn off the skydome form rendering the lights are pretty different and unique.

Charlie Judge

Serene Night said:

I don't believe it is. I believe it was fabricated. I think it is a good purchase though. Even when you turn off the skydome form rendering the lights are pretty different and unique.

Thanks. I was more interested in one with true images. I did find a reference where someone put one together from NASA images back in 2004 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php?t-116022.html). Unfortunately the site where it was hosted now seems to be defunct.

Midnight_stories

These were rendered in Terragen, The lighting shadows comes from where the sun is placed in the scene. I had to send them to a render farm or it would have taken month to render.

In theory you could import some mar data sets and render your own scene in Terragen. But I'm out of practice these days

nDelphi

Midnight_stories said:

These were rendered in Terragen, The lighting shadows comes from where the sun is placed in the scene. I had to send them to a render farm or it would have taken month to render.

I did not know this, wow, that long?

I used one of them to great effect in this scene, the Heliades-class space exploration vehicle was rendered to scale with the figures. I added a haze environment box to the scene to add haze to the atmosphere and turned on Iray's bloom effect. I rendered this one as high as 7680 x 7680 and another one at 7680 x 4320 with a GTX 1080:

http://www.3dlibrarian.net/2017/01/28/heliades-class-space-exploration-vehicle/

 

fastbike1

@nDelphi  "I used one of them to great effect in this scene, the Heliades-class space exploration vehicle was rendered to scale with the figures. I added a haze environment box to the scene to add haze to the atmosphere and turned on Iray's bloom effect. I rendered this one as high as 7680 x 7680 and another one at 7680 x 4320 with a GTX 1080"

My congratulations, that is a wonderful work of art.

IceDragonArt

These are one of my favorite HDRI sets. They work really well for a variety of things from offworld renders to post apolyptic and war renders not to mention desert badlands kind of things.

Midnight_stories

nDelphi said:

Midnight_stories said:

These were rendered in Terragen, The lighting shadows comes from where the sun is placed in the scene. I had to send them to a render farm or it would have taken month to render.

I did not know this, wow, that long?

I used one of them to great effect in this scene, the Heliades-class space exploration vehicle was rendered to scale with the figures. I added a haze environment box to the scene to add haze to the atmosphere and turned on Iray's bloom effect. I rendered this one as high as 7680 x 7680 and another one at 7680 x 4320 with a GTX 1080:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/space-exploration-nelson-nieves.html

 

Wow that really is impressive work. Thanks for sharing !!!

nDelphi

fastbike1 & Midnight_stories, thanks!