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jrmalone β Fons et Origo
Published: 2011-01-01 05:36:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 3526; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 97
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Kind of the sequel to the last image I posted, "Threshold". Fons et Origo is Latin for "Source and Origin of..." In this case, the explorers are returning to their home planet of Demeter more than 15 years after the Ambus asteroid impact. Their mission is to find and re-activate the subterranean machine dubbed "The Corridor".I created the landscape and terrains in Vue;
M4 models and Xurge3d.com Viper suit composed in Poser;
Structures were created in Groboto;
Anura ship created by
Rendered in Vue with minor post work in Photoshop.
If you look really, really close, the other four characters are also in this scene. Can you find them?
This is my first image of 2011!
I hope you will like... Many more to come!*** Update: Check out this "Before" image:
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Thank you so much! I'm honored by your kind words!
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Egads this just blows my mind! I can't get over how vast this is. It looks so darn real as though I can take a step right into it. Excellent work! Jaw dropping, I'd say!
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Better suit up if you step into this place, though - it's a narsty place! lol Thank you so much, Kikue!
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Incredible! Were the clouds/misty-puffs rendered in Vue or added in postwork? Either way, the effect is stunning! Love it!!
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Thank you very much!
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I'm very impressed! My Vue clouds rarely look so realistic! Really striking scene!
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Very nice Ryan!!!!!
I love it!
Great atmosphere.
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Thank you so much, my friend! I'm so glad you like!
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I really like it when you create these vast epic images. You can really see the atmosphere and layout right through your eyes. hehe This looks so cool! Love the soft evening light and how your character is watching as the crew from the Anura ship are beginning to explore. At least I think those tiny little spec's are the crew?? hehe Does Vue render those characters the same as the character that is so close? Or does it understand and just quickly render them? Just curious. Bjorn's ship looks so awesome with that white light on the landing deck. I like your structure in front of the character in the foreground. It looks cool and seems to be something you could actually run across in RW terms. hehe Beautiful work Ryan!
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Thank you so much! I'm glad you like! 
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Your most welcome. It's so fun when a really cool image evolves from a doodle. 
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Definitely give it a try sometime. They have the free learning editions, but they stamp that watermark on the renders. But it'll give you an idea of what it can do before you plunk down money on it. And don't think of it as just a landscape renderer - you can do anything with it.
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Sounds good! I would like to at least give it a try. You do use it for everything, even your character rendering. That's true. I like that. Thank you! When I give it a spin, I will most likely have questions. ....um, where is the render button?? haha then your going to want to do this hehe
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LOL! No, I'll be patient!
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Wow this is absolutely fabulous. The terrain is just amazing! As for the other characters, there appears to be 3-4 humanoids down by the ships light. My eye sight isn't the greatest but that's what I see. Gorgeous job on the landscape and the structure, its so detailed and interesting!
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Thanks Vee! Yeah, one of the characters on the ground is out of the light so a bit harder to see.
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Oh that should be completely awesome. I can't wait to see it. I'm still having trouble getting Vue 6 and 8 to cooperate with Win 7, I've tried reinstalling it twice now, hopefully this time I can get it to function. Every time I get a popup tech report to send in, I tell them, their software is bullshit, and they suck monkey balls for not fixing the previous versions and coming out with new ones. LOL, I bet they get a lot of that.
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LOL! Tell 'em!!! (They conveniently took those reports away in 9 - hmmm, wonder why...) Yeah, give it up for Vue 6. I had mondo issues with it in Vista, so I can imagine it would be worse for Win 7. But Vue 8 should be fine. I'm sure e-on's response will be the cookie-cutter "Make sure you run it as Administrator" blah blah. It's a bullshit response and doesn't have to be run in admin. Sorry you're having so many issues. I'll try to help if I can.
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Come to think of it, I do have a question about the vid card, before I was re-installing Vue 6, There was a message that stated my video card didn't support a few of the components or something of that nature, are there any video settings that need to be addressed? Because I have a relatively new vid card. And course now I have also re-installed Vue 8 and I think there is some setting problem there as well because I am getting rectangular artifacts across the entire interface. Let me know if you have any ideas.
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Hmmm, didn't think about the vid card being the culprit. Could definitely be the issue.
Try this in Vue:
File > Options...
Under the "Display Options" tab, I believe the default for the "3D view display quality" is bubbled for "OpenGL 2.1 (shader 4)". If it is, select the next one for "OpenGL (fixed hardware pipeline)". And vice verse if one or the other is set.
Also, check the "Max usable video memory". You may need to try different options to see if that clears things up. Otherwise you may need to open a dreaded ticket with e-on and list your video board manufacturer so they can cross-reference to make sure it's compatible.
BTW - what video card do you have? Most Invidia boards work well. I have a GeForce 9800 GT and knock on wood have never had any issues. Somewhere in the Vue world I remember seeing a list of boards that are supported. There may be an updated driver for yours too, but you may have already tried that.
Let me know if this helps. If not, we'll keep pluggin' along until you're fixed!
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I also have a GeForce 9800 GT. I'll check those settings and see if it helps, thank you Ryan
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Cool! Yeah, I thought Vue would complain right off the bat if the card was incompatible - and I know for a fact that it supports most all of the GeForce line. It just occurred to me that BjΓΆrn also had an issue with reloading his Vue on his new computer - I think his just flat didn't work at all. Seems to me it was a bad driver somewhere, but I could be mistaken. I'll shoot him a note and see what he comes back with...
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Believe it or not the reply from techs'port was to uncheck use paper background and it worked. ()*Y&*&%&^#$^R%(*&))_T$#^%#^#$^T&*@#@$@#!$%% LMAO
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LMAO! WTF? Holy smoke, who the Hell would've guessed? LOL! I always leave that unchecked anyway, but still, I would have never thought of that. Hopefully they'll earmark that as a big ole fat FLAW FAIL!
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Go figure LOL! They definitely should off check that for default, I mean really. But the thing that puzzles me is, I didn't install the prog any different than before, I guess it took Win 7 to point out that stupid idiocy LOL! I'll have to do a test run today but yeah, I'm glad too haha, thank you!
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Really like the feel of this image, you get the feeling that it's.. endless? If that makes sense, haha
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Thank you!
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You really nailed it, it's a great scene!
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Excellent!
And the added detail of the little people is perfect!
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Thanks Pete! Yeah, almost left them out, but it would have haunted me had I left them out, even if they were microscopic.
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No problem Ryan!
I find the little details like that change the whole feel of the image, even if they are not the main focus.
Prime example in my gallery - compare the two images:
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Personally, I think the 2nd one is far superior even though it was just a few minor details...
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Those are amazing, Pete! Yeah, they're both great, but definitely the minor changes in the second one really takes it to a whole new level. You're right - amazing what a little change can make!
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Fantastic picture that really sets the scene nicely. Desolate but with that touch of life with the light from the ship. Very much looking forward to reading the story that accompanies this, Sir.
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hehehe... one positive thing is that you both will never face the situation of having nothing to write about! Actually a before/after diptych would look kinda neat. Or to challenge yourself, you could do a pic with a viewpoint from space of the asteroid hitting the planet's surface? That would be a challenge for you
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Oy, I've tried. Not in an image, though. Actually in an animation, but just couldn't get it right, so I conveniently drifted behind the planet as the asteroid hit on the other side and you can see a brilliant flash. hehe I don't have those cool Hollywood resources for the animations just yet. Just something I dabble in with Vue from time to time (I love it, but you have to have the patience of watching paint dry). But yeah, it would be an awesome challenge. I'll add it to my list!
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Yeah, the technicalities of effectively animating a scene like that would be quite challenging. Hell, even a still-pic would not be the easiest thing to draw.
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Doh! [link] How could I forget??? Should've figured that ole BjΓΆrn would have already figured this out.
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Beaten to the punch - so to speak
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Just love it Ryan. The whole chabang. Love how you can see the vast landscape. Nice looking clouds too.
Yup. I can see the characters. 
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Thanks Kenneth! There was a lot more landscape that what can be seen here - the clouds and atmo obscured them. I had an idea yesterday to make a "Before" image of this terrain, before everything went to Hell in a handbasket for the world. We'll see...
And LOL! Yay! You found them!
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