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Another Star Trek Episode // Work in Progress

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Post by scifieric // Jan 13, 2007, 10:56am

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Total Posts: 38
 Hello,

A long while ago I posted some of the WIP images I had made of my version of "The Doomsday Machine", a Star Trek episode where I am replacing the effects with TrueSpace effects. (No, I'm not done yet! :D )

Just to complicate matters, I thought I would take on an "easy" episode just to get some renders in and some quick animation. That didn't last too long as I ran into problems creating a "Lava" planet that I thought would harken back to the 1960's in style but look cleaner and get the point across a little faster than the original.

I'm still working on it but here are a few shots of my version of "The Savage Curtain" being done for the most part in TrueSpace 4.

I welcome comments and critisism.

Thank you for your attention,

Eric

I'm finally fairly happy with a kind of a cross between techniques. I'm hoping that Excalbia here looks like it is so hot that it has a molten core and only a semi-fluid set of "land masses" or crusts that are still too think and hot for a human being to step on.

I don't want to get too far from the designs and sensibilities of the original series, so I think I stop "improving" it here.
http://www.3dscifi.com/ericimages/ExcalbiaFinal.jpg
The image is an old one (I should point out that I made the Enterprise in TrueSpace 4.3) with the planet render and atmosphere glow comp'd in with Photoshop. I'll rerender the entire sequence with the new planet but I have yet to decide if I will keep the atmosphere glow or indeed what option I will use to show it if I keep it in the final renders.

I'd like your opinions, even if I do think I'll keep this planet.

*edit*

I should include what the original looked like.
http://www.3dscifi.com/ericimages/STAR_TREK_VOL_39-3.jpg
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Okay, just a quick update.

I've finished the quick animation test and I like the speed at which I have the planet turning. I may start the animation a little later into the cycle so that we see the back lava-ocean a bit more but either way.
http://www.3dscifi.com/ericimages/excalbiawmv.jpg (http://www.3dscifi.com/ericimages/ExcalbiaIntro01.WMV)
Click on the image for the WMV file. 137 KB

Now I need to figure out some way to make a convincing lava flow animation. LOL!

I welcome your opinions.
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What do you guys think of this as an Island texture? Does it look like a satellite photo ... a little? I'm not done yet but I also don't know if I'm going in the right direction.
http://www.3dscifi.com/ericimages/IslandTexture.jpg
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I came up with a strange way of doing this. It needs refinement but it is fairly close to what I want to do.
http://www.3dscifi.com/ericimages/island.plus.clouds.20000.jpg
I created a spline polygon for the outline of the island and Boolean averaged it with a slightly larger sphere. I selected the top faces and used only those. Mapped the texture and set it to not cast shadows.

I have a full transparent sphere with a cloud texture and an alpha channel for transparency.

This is as close as I've gotten thus far. Suggestions or comments?

Post by Methusela // Jan 13, 2007, 11:02am

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If you're looking for lava tips, watch the special features on the DVD for Star Wars Episode III. They're great (Can't say that for the film itself, though :/ ).

Post by scifieric // Jan 13, 2007, 11:23am

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Total Posts: 38
 Thanks for the tip!
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