Ark (spaceship)

[neo0.]

After trying numerous freely available textures (and not being happy with any of them), I went ahead and made my own.

Suggestions on everything welcome..

[OnoSendai]

Looks too big to be in Earth's atmosphere, I think you need to render it in space!

[CTZn]

You could use the texture as a faint displacement instead, that would figure panels better. Subdivisions smoothing should be off then. As a bump map it would be better slightly blurred, it's a bit too contrasty for an albedo map. To my taste that is

[neo0.]

Update. Added more detail to both the top and bottom of the ship.

[Soup]

There's a weird grid going on in those two last ones! Does it clear if you render longer?

[neo0.]

Not really. The image cleared after 15 minutes or so and I let it render for another 45 mins and it didn't change much. The ship was only scaled to around 800 feet.

Indigo 2.4.13//AMD P320 Dual core cpu//Bidirectional PT

[lycium]

We've recently improved the numeric precision of Indigo's camera calculations, which could resolve this issue.

[CoolColJ]

We've recently improved the numeric precision of Indigo's camera calculations, which could resolve this issue.

I'm not following this, in what way does this help?

[Zom-B]

I'm not following this, in what way does this help?

Regarding the strange box pattern over neo0s last renders...

[neo0.]

Slight update. I wanted to give it a more armored, industrial look.

[Zom-B]

Please give this envMap a try for a better space look: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive/dow ... lkyway.zip
More reflections for the surface could enhance the look to.

[lycium]

Nice sunny day out in space, not a cloud in the sky!

[neo0.]

Please give this envMap a try for a better space look: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive/dow ... lkyway.zip
More reflections for the surface could enhance the look to.

Yes, I love you! I have been looking for a space HDR for many months. Thank you, Zom-B!

As for the reflections, I am going for for a dull, painted metal look..

[CTZn]

As for the reflections, I am going for for a dull, painted metal look..

Use a very low exponent for a dark phong then ! Removing totally the specular component of an object is like removing the color from a picture (to me) ! Only that even b&w pictures are featuring specularity so it's even worse realism wise

You are making good progresses neo0. !

[neo0.]

The environment map seems to be a little bleary and out of focus, but on the whole it looks much nicer. Does anyone else here know of any other space HDRs?