The Eclipse . . . by mcv
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The Eclipse . . .
Stardate 8745.13
"Exploring a red giant in a nebula much more noted for new young stars . . ."
Credits:
Star background is a separate PovRay render (#1) using Chris Colefax's wonderful "galaxy" include code.
Red Giant Sun is Daz Sudio primative sphere double rendered, once with noise for texture maps, then a second time with the 1st render's output as texture maps. (renders #2 & #3)
Enterprize is my PoseRay wavefront obj convertion of Chris Guinn's Lightwave conversion of original Non-commercial use only 3Ds-R4 format model by Eric Peterson. Gvim edit of (.iff) to (.tiff) in .mtl file along with texture file renameing was required prior to DS import. A long journey to get this prop!
Final render (#4) in Daz Studio with no postwork.
(Several versions of the above process were done until the image you see was finally obtained.)
All comments welcome, mcv
Comments (17)
Very well done, your patience with this rendered paid off with interest!
I wish they would bring back the series with both of the old casts ...I haven't watched TV since. Great image ...thanks for the memories.
Very interesting space image..beautiful texture and colors! Excellent render :)
Cool Trekky pic Mike. The Enterprise look real good in black!!
So wonderful render!
Nicely done very impressive ^^
Shweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet cool trekky render
Excellent Mike, "Beam me up Scottie"... lol
Great sci-fi mood!!! Very impressive view!!! Excellent composition and render!!!
Great Si_Fi....most impressive
Dear Mike, Hmmm - I'm not so sure it's a good idea to be that close to a red giant. Not only is it going to be unstable and "breathing," and also pre-nova or pre-supernova, but it is likely to be a REAL magnetic mess. And then their is the tidal effects ifthey are inside the Roche limit!! BUT - since we are talking about a starship - that warps out of the neighborhood faster than the speed of light - they've obviously got a pretty good handle on space-time - so I figure they can shield themselves from probably everything - including gravity!!! And of course, you can make a pretty convincing argument that gravity IS space-time, so if you can manipulate one, you can manipute the other. SO - the Enterprise is probably not in any real danger!!! (That's a relief!!!) ;-) Really nice work on the nebula and on the red giant and on the white dwarf in the distance!!! And vry nice work in converting the Enterprise to OBJ format!! Very dramatic scene and suprb sci-fi work!!!!!! Love ya!!! Meredith
Great space image - nice contrast with the darkness of the ship against that red glowing orb.
Awesome scene.
Excellent Sci-fi render, Mike! The planet looks so realistic and the ship is well rendered!
Awesome render! This is cool! I love that big orange ball!!!!:) The ship is excellent!
I do like the texture this made. Your work payed off here to make a very good image
cool sta trek imaage