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Vue render, imports from DAZ Studio.The clouds are inspired by real life "lenticular" clouds.
Thanks for viewing,
Lars
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Comments: 11
Berytak [2014-07-19 12:30:39 +0000 UTC]
What a vital picture! I especially like the atmosphere
Very well done!
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AnthonyDiff [2014-04-21 15:22:05 +0000 UTC]
Sweet pic! The layout of the buildings and the scurry of activity feel very realistic.
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Six-Kings [2014-02-10 17:23:43 +0000 UTC]
Great Sci-Fi Scene! Reminds me of scenes from the "Thunderbirds" show. The clouds are very cool looking too!
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Chromattix [2014-02-10 10:34:25 +0000 UTC]
I was about to say "hey, those clouds look like...oh wait, he intended that" - never seen anyone else do them before, I did ages ago but I never made anything of it. This technique could be used to make some pretty awesome gas giant scenes
The colony looks very realistic too
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neanderdigital In reply to Chromattix [2014-02-10 11:27:07 +0000 UTC]
Thanks The clouds are several metaclouds with my own material, made some years ago as a result of a thread about lenticular clouds in a Vue forum. If I can figure out how to make it available here, I will. It's already downloadable on Facebook
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Chromattix In reply to neanderdigital [2014-02-10 11:37:29 +0000 UTC]
I would imagine such results would come from making the metacoud material fairly smooth as far as settings go, and then giving them a function that is very stretched along the Z axis (I think that's the right axis, I haven't used Vue in a while now ) the function (as it appears on the sphere) would probably look horizontally banded I bet
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neanderdigital In reply to Chromattix [2014-02-10 13:18:31 +0000 UTC]
Indeed the cloud function is stretched a lot in the z-direction, but it's just a part of the appearance. It's the result of a lot of trial-and-error in the function editor I haven't used it before, because it looks too weird for normal renders, regardless of the real-life basis. Sadly, many Vue'rs won't hesistate to shoot down effects that aren't mainstream "normal" looking...
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