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Description
Matronauts Jane, Des, and Ethyl take a 300 kilometer detour to revist a historical site: the Columbia Hills of Spirit Rover fame. They hope to get a glimpse of some of that ancient rover's tracks and drill or trenching marks, but they will have to be very careful. The place is a Martian historical site and one has to be careful not to destroy any of the original tracks, although most have been covered by drifting sand. The Spirit's route from Columbia Station to the Columbia Hills has been clearly marked off as to the areas that cannot be traversed, but one can get close enough in places to actually see some of Spirit's tracks.
These shrines of early Martian exploration are great sources of inspiration to the Matronauts.
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And I'd like to also point out that I got to the Columbia Hills before Spirit did! hee! hee!
Terrain and mat are from a NASA/Jet Propulsion photo that I converted in the Bryce 5 Terrain Editor. Surface is not as detailed as I would like, but I'm working on that. Martian Mule, driver, and dustcloud by me: Mule and dustcloud in Bryce 5 and Matronaut in Poser 5, then rendered in Bryce. Martian sky is also mine.
Hope you enjoy.
Comments (6)
Rover and dust look good .. your right about the hills though, they are a bit edgy. I would suggest also, as postwork maybe, to change the color in direction orange for realism.. cool work, i like your mars series a lot
WOW! avery awesome scene. I love when people do mars related images! great work on this. except i have to agree with django, the hills are edgy, and i would give mars a little bit more red/orange color,. but excellent overall.
My mother is a space cadet..
-Moon Unit Zappa..;) great work..good modeling.
Django and SeigMancer, yes, your are correct but, unfortunately, I cannot do much about it. The elevations are always way too elevated and I have to try and make--hopefully--intelligent--guesses as to how high the hills would actually be. Having the Rover Spirit pictures helps in that area, although I suspect these may still be a bit too high. The terrains also tend to be a bit too rough so I have to smooth them, but unhappily Bryce TE doesn't give one any say in how much smoothing and it tends to overdo it. (It's one of my great irritations with the TE.) In short, I can use the smooth once and usually it's a bit too much but better than not doing it at all. I've heard that there is a program that can correct some of these problems but have yet to find it. (I'm beginning to think it is wishful thinking.) The colors are actually from a color picture from one the overhead satellites orbiting Mars. That's one reason why it looks lighter and also rather blurry. Another problem with my Mars pictures is how to make the tracks that the vehicles should be leaving (not to mention those of the Matronauts themselves.) Any suggestions on how to correct these problems will be greatfully accepted. I do plan on doing a reprise of this and some other pictures that I've been holding onto for the same reasons. I've got a couple of ideas but haven't had time to follow up, but I will. Thanks for the imput. Compliments are nice, but constructive negative feedback is often more helpful. pakled, good to hear from you. Love the quote. I'd forgotten about that one. Ha. Jeremy
dust is awesome and model! looking foward to more on this
Perfect details and composition!Bravo my friend.