Still working on a Tutorial DVD intro and have a first test render to show of earth from space after the war that is the basis of the DVD.

Anyhow, in this image you can see a small version of the map that I'm using for Earth. ...

Notice the craters, the destroyed areas of the continents and such...

no wonder it only took 4 minutes and 23 seconds to defeat the planet!

:)

The plan is to have the camera rotate up and to the left, peeking over the earths edge...behind it will be the moon, broken with dust and particles around it (kinda like saturn) and a whole army of ships around the planet.

Lots to do, still not too thrilled with the atmosphere.  I may have to do it as an after-render effect in Adobe After Effects instead of part of the rendered image.

:)

BT

You saved some of all of the Australian States except mine, South Australia.  Not happy, why are you so cruel to me--I felt quite radient yesterday and now I know I am not here !!!

Dropping rocks from orbit are we? Actually, any one of those (like that monster you've got taking out most of Australia) would pretty much kill 90% and counting of all living things on Earth. The Australian one alone looks bigger than Chicxulub -- Dinosaur-killer class or better.

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

Since the craters you show imply energies on order of 10^9 megatons of conventional explosives, I have a strong feeling that the total thermal loading of all of the craters depicted (plus all the water hits not shown explicitly) would for all practical purposes kill all life, strip the surface to bare rock, half-empty the oceans and blanket the planet in dust and water. I wouldn't want to land there without protection, not for several years anyhow. That's always assuming there isn't a total climate shift sending Earth into a new stable configuration as a frozen wasteland or a Venusian hell.

Oh, also for visualization; those craters are big enough to put ejecta into orbit. So there would be a halo of dust around the Earth. Plus of course for the next 2-10 years the atmosphere will be durn-near opaque (and a nice orange light to see by if you are on the ground).

If you are visualizing right after the impacts....well, then, most of those craters are lit up like stars -- the fireballs alone are tens of kilometers -- and the ejecta is coming back in like white-hot sleet. Basically the thing is a churning ball of yellow-white-red.

And I thought I only had a headache!

Quote - Dropping rocks from orbit are we? Actually, any one of those (like that monster you've got taking out most of Australia) would pretty much kill 90% and counting of all living things on Earth. The Australian one alone looks bigger than Chicxulub -- Dinosaur-killer class or better........

Heh

The aliens vacuumed the dust away to power their ion powered engines (that's my story and I'm sticking to it...heh)

Actually, when the dvd story takes place its far in the future of the attack (probably shouldnt tell that cause it messes up the surprise ending)...but anyhow, that's the case. as for the flooding, the poles' ice is pretty much gone...so the lower areas are flooded.  However,one could argue that it should have flooded more..to which I could say the aliens are really thirsty.  It's all a fantasy, the last time I saw the earth invaded by aliens tho...it looked a lot like this. lol

:)

and yeah, (not sure if you seen the early picts from the planet)...but its definately not a hospitable place any longer.  I mean how could it be?  Renderosity is no longer online!  Heh

look at washington dc, its gone..as is england, and other large "central" earth powers.  One smack, and ya just vacuum dust all ya want. :)

tnx for looking

BT