| | | Ben Borofka | | Final Scene | | | Imminent Impact | |
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| | Inspiration
My idea for this scene was to create something as realistic as possible, but also very interesting and exciting. I wanted to focus on detail and try to recreate something as realistic as possible. A flaming meteor heading for Earth just struck as something that would be fun to make and a challenge to look good.
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| | | Objects | Earth Surface | Ben | | | Earth Clouds | Ben | | | Earth Atmosphere | Ben | | | Moon Surface | Ben | | | Asteroid | Ben | | | | | | Textures | Earth | http://voyager.mcc.ac.uk/Predict/earth-maps/earth_2400.jpg | | | Earth Clouds | http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html | | | Earth Bump Map | http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html | | | Specular Map | http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html | | | Moon Map | http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/moon.html | | | Bump Map | http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/moon.html | | | | | | Tutorials | Photorealistic Earth | http://personal.southern.edu/~dascott/tutorial01/nasa-earth.htm | | | Creating an Asteroid | http://students.washington.edu/mikhansn/Tutorials/AsteroidField/AsteroidFieldTutorial.htm | | | Creating a Star backdrop | http://students.washington.edu/mikhansn/Tutorials/TexEnviron/TexEnvironPage1.htm |
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| | Problems and Solutions
Creating the Earth, Moon and Asteroid was pretty tedious, but straightforward. The Earth was the most complicated. It uses 3 layers (surface, clouds, and atmosphere) with multiple textures and image maps. I modeled the moon after the photorealistic Earth tutorial, only needing a surface layer with an image map and bump texture. The most difficult part of this scene was the fire behind the meteor. I had a very tough time figuring out how HyperVoxels work, but after much trial and error, I was able to get a fire trail, albeit clumsily. The star background is just a simple FMB Procedural backdrop.
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