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FM Solar System [commercial]

FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
edited April 2013 in The Commons

Update 04/29/2013

Released!

FM Solar System @ Daz Store
aniBlocks for FM Solar System (free)
FM Solar System Video
FM Solar System Infopage


Hi guys!

Here`s a preview for my next release, as the title suggests, it`s our solar system. ;)

All preview pics are direct renders from DS and Poser. "Effects" like sunrays, halos (planetary atmosphere) and the AR infoboards are part of the set.

The solar system is an easy to animate figure, the DS version will get free aniBlocks.
The stars provide full scene coverage, it`s more or less the same thing like on the easy environments series.
10 material presets for the stars range from realistic to scifi.

For most parts the solar system is pretty authentic (relative size, surfaces), with a few liberties taken where it aided the visuals.
I`ll have an infopage up soon to give you the exact details on that.

Hope you`ll like it!

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  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    Ooh, nifty! I'll have a copy, please...

    (subscribes to thread so I won't miss the "in the store" announcement)

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    wooooooh! Looks excellent!!

  • IgnisSerpentusIgnisSerpentus Posts: 2,527
    edited December 1969

    Wow amazing job on this, and your video as well! I am most keen on the Earth. What a beautiful marble we live on.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,672
    edited December 1969

    I am so buying this! I tend to do a lot of space renders and there aren't enough good space products.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Excellent!! And there goes my idea for a new set. I love this!! You will not mind if I add some troposphere and stratosphere's for animation effects I hope.

  • JennKJennK Posts: 834
    edited December 1969

    Yep buying this one also :coolsmile:

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Want. Very want. Very, very want.

    Just spotted something in the first couple of pics: if this is intended to be astronomically accurate, remember Uranus and Pluto are tilted way over — more than 90 deg., so they're slightly upside down, and Pluto only has five moons (so far; I don't think anyone would be much surprised if the New Horizons probe discovers a few pebbles too small for Hubble to see).

  • SupercopeSupercope Posts: 128
    edited December 1969

    That was a great video.

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the nice replies =)

    @ Jaderail ...You wanted to do a similar set?
    Gah, i was about to tell my personal backstory with this one, but I just realized that might end up a long and boring wall of text. The short version > one of the hardest sets I`ve done so far. Obviously not by geometry, but there was a lot of little trickery required, when i started I didn`t even think it would ever work in Poser.
    Stratosphere > if you mean adding "cloud" spheres, Earth and Jupiter already have that.

    @ SpottedKitty ...Damn, an expert lol.
    No, the tilt is only accurate on earth (I hope...), on Pluto the orbit tilt is accurate. Uranus (and Saturn) are actually tilted in favour of lighting, to get the rings lit properly.
    However, every planet has it`s own independent joint, making adjustments should be very easy.

    Pluto, hmm, that`s embarrassing. I worked with 5 different charts for those infos, the one I took pluto`s moons from listed 9 ...must have been ahead of it`s time, since the Nasa main chart is listing 5 indeed. May I wait for the probe to return before fixing it? ;)
    Anyway, you gave me a good idea for the info page...I should link to the used fonts there, to make it more easy to modify the infoboards. After all those facts seem to change almost daily.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited April 2013

    Flipmode said:
    Thanks for the nice replies =)

    @ Jaderail ...You wanted to do a similar set?
    Gah, i was about to tell my personal backstory with this one, but I just realized that might end up a long and boring wall of text. The short version > one of the hardest sets I`ve done so far. Obviously not by geometry, but there was a lot of little trickery required, when i started I didn`t even think it would ever work in Poser.
    Stratosphere > if you mean adding "cloud" spheres, Earth and Jupiter already have that.

    @ SpottedKitty ...Damn, an expert lol.
    No, the tilt is only accurate on earth (I hope...), on Pluto the orbit tilt is accurate. Uranus (and Saturn) are actually tilted in favour of lighting, to get the rings lit properly.
    However, every planet has it`s own independent joint, making adjustments should be very easy.

    Pluto, hmm, that`s embarrassing. I worked with 5 different charts for those infos, the one I took pluto`s moons from listed 9 ...must have been ahead of it`s time, since the Nasa main chart is listing 5 indeed. May I wait for the probe to return before fixing it? ;)
    Anyway, you gave me a good idea for the info page...I should link to the used fonts there, to make it more easy to modify the infoboards. After all those facts seem to change almost daily.

    Yep, was going to do a freebe set for animation and rendering. Nothing as detailed as this and more just Random planets than known things. I have a Plugin for one of my 2D prg's that will save World maps in a Texture format that would be easy to UV to a sphere. I was thinking three atmosphere levels for easy animation effects. And could have included bump/disp maps for detailed moons and such. Might still fiddle with it just for giggles.
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  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
    edited December 1969

    That plugin certainly sounds handy. Maybe a texture addon would work well. ;)

    Three atmosphere levels ... might be pretty tricky, the upscaling for the spheres quickly starts to look unnatural, even one layer required very fine adjustment. Still worth a try I guess.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Sent you a PM.

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
    edited December 1969

    Got it, thx!

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,973
    edited December 1969

    Cool! Been looking for somthing like this for a long time...

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Flipmode said:
    Pluto, hmm, that`s embarrassing. I worked with 5 different charts for those infos, the one I took pluto`s moons from listed 9 ...must have been ahead of it`s time, since the Nasa main chart is listing 5 indeed. May I wait for the probe to return before fixing it? ;)

    Heh, I just used the Wiki page. Well, there's a two year wait until New Horizons does its flyby of Pluto and sends its pretty pics back. It has spotted Pluto, as a test for its camera tracking systems, but all it could see then was a tiny speck of light moving very slowly against the stars. That was seven years ago. Takes a while to get out there, if you're playing Newton's billiards.
  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    Flipmode said:
    ...
    Stratosphere > if you mean adding "cloud" spheres, Earth and Jupiter already have that.
    ...

    The last time I looked, Venus had an atmosphere, too...
  • almahiedraalmahiedra Posts: 1,353
    edited December 1969

    Solar system looks ultra-Woww!!-fantastic...as a begin. It will be cool a series of products with other astronomic objects, other stars, exoplanets, artistic representations of black holes, magnetars, galaxies, no like a plain pictures but 3D objects.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Yes, but unlike Jupiter, all we can see of Venus (in visible light, anyway) are the upper cloud tops. We've never seen the surface, or even lower cloud levels, except from a lander's cameras.

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
    edited December 1969

    Yes, the atmosphere info was just about the model, saying that (by default) you can animate a "cloud sphere" for Earth and Jupiter...not trying to state which real planets actually have one. It made most sense for those two, tbh. it`s more of a gimmick even there.

    I have corrected the info on Pluto`s moons, but there`s no way knowing if it can be patched into the release version in time. Worst case I`ll have it as download on the info page. Speaking of which, the PSD for the infoboards will be available too, in case one wants to add or change any info there.

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
    edited December 1969

    Oh, and let`have another preview pic ;)

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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    Damn this is fantastic!!! I've been doing outer space renders since my very first one with Bryce 4 about 10 or so years ago.

    Up until now, though, the only 3D space products I could find were the Heart of Space and Heart of Space Nebula for the Mil Environ, and then I still needed to do a lot of Postwork with 2D space related products I got elsewhere. Love the way the final images came out, but this is the first true outer space product I've seen. Nice work sir!! :-)

  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,064
    edited December 1969

    FlipMode, are you looking in my render schedule?

    I'm in Firefly right now, this looks like useful, again (poor creditcard)!

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
    edited December 1969

    Thanks Miss B & Totte :)

    Firefly...such a nice, short-lived show! Movie was even better imo.

    Attached two just-for-fun renders I did last night to test combining sets. They are dark but...well, it`s night scenes.

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  • ShaneWSmithShaneWSmith Posts: 636
    edited December 1969

    So getting this. Loved all the Environments, and have already used a bunch of them in my work! This one will see pretty heavy use, I'm sure! :-)

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    Flipmode said:
    Yes, the atmosphere info was just about the model, saying that (by default) you can animate a "cloud sphere" for Earth and Jupiter...not trying to state which real planets actually have one. It made most sense for those two, tbh. it`s more of a gimmick even there.

    It might be a gimmick if you only render in toon mode, but a realistic planetary atmosphere is essential for a realistic space image.

    I've tried rendering a spacecraft orbiting Earth, and it's never looked right because I've never had an atmosphere around the planet... Lately I've been using airless rockballs as backgrounds for my space renders because they're the only bodies that look at all decent without an atmosphere "envelope" around them.

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 909
    edited December 1969

    Thanks canberra_boy, glad you like environments and the previews for this one :)

    robkelk, I think we`re in a constant state of misunderstanding.
    The "atmosphere" I (and I believe Jade Rail) were talking about was basicly animateable cloud layers.
    The "atmosphere" you seem to be refering to now is what I called "halo / planetary atmosphere" in my OP. The shine around planets.
    That shine is of course on all planets of this solar system. And I 100% agree, without it you can not get a realistic look. Finding a way to get that look in DS/Poser was the first task for me, without it I wouldn`t have done the set at all.

    But well, that`s what the preview images are for. They show exactly what you get when you load the set.

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    Ah. Okay, my fears are dismissed...

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I agree 100% with Flipmode. Haze and Atmosphere are two different items in the terms I discussed. FM has done a Wonderful job on this set. It will be a must have for me.

  • Tangled Web CreationsTangled Web Creations Posts: 69
    edited December 1969

    This looks so awesome; definitely grabbing this! Will our moon be included in this by chance or is it just the planets? *crosses her fingers and really hopes for it*

  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    Flipmode said:
    Hi guys!

    Here`s a preview for my next release, as the title suggests, it`s our solar system. ;)

    All preview pics are direct renders from DS and Poser. "Effects" like sunrays, halos (planetary atmosphere) and the AR infoboards are part of the set.

    The solar system is an easy to animate figure, the DS version will get free aniBlocks.
    The stars provide full scene coverage, it`s more or less the same thing like on the easy environments series.
    10 material presets for the stars range from realistic to scifi.

    For most parts the solar system is pretty authentic (relative size, surfaces), with a few liberties taken where it aided the visuals.
    I`ll have an infopage up soon to give you the exact details on that.

    Don`t miss the preview video >>>
    FM Solar System Video

    Hope you`ll like it!

    looks pretty cool - made a program in 1986 that did the much the same - told the time to go around the sun- showed the planets
    also you could pick two planets and compare them in orbit - lots of fun to do .

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