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I’ve finally made it past my concept design! There was a lot of backtracking but i’m finally happy with the overarching concept and bulk of the modelling. From this point on it’s all about the detailed modelling, materials and atmosphere of the shots. I’d love to hear your feedback, more sketchy views coming soon.
Tried to make a cabin using modern materials like concrete and stone roof.
My main goal with this project is to create a space in which people can observe the nature and feel more close to it.
I modelized the whole project ( the dome, The cabins, etc.. ). I used a .STL terrain provided by the Nasa for the Mars Area. Actually, it’s the place where Curiosity landed. I had to trick a little with the scale because the .STL data of the terrain is very large. For the ambience, I used a simple Vray sun because The light there in Mars is in any case different than here on earth and the Vray sun gives us good control for that. I used also the Vray aerial perspective set to 6000m large and 500m height. It works pretty well. For the dome, I just took references on what we do here on Earth. It’s a Geosphere on that I used the lattice modifier to extract the structure. The trees come from Vizpark libraries. All the Debries, grass, stones and terrain texture are Megascan stuffs.
For this step, I modelized the whole project ( the dome, The cabins, etc.. ). I used a .STL terrain provided by the Nasa for the Mars Area. Actually, it’s the place where Curiosity landed. I had to trick a little with the scale because the .STL data of the terrain is very large. For the ambience, I used a simple Vray sun because The light there in Mars is in any case different than here on earth and the Vray sun gives us good control for that. I used also the Vray aerial perspective set to 6000m large and 500m height. It works pretty well. For the dome, I just took references on what we do here on Earth. It’s a Geosphere on that I used the lattice modifier to extract the structure. The trees come from Vizpark libraries. All the Debries, grass, stones and terrain texture are Megascan stuffs.
Just a first quick setup of the scene. Landscape modeling and texturing was made in MODO with Vray plugin. For the mountains in the distance I used an aerial picture of a bay near Chile from USGS, as suggested by Ronen, and turned it into a displacement map to create the basic geometry. Obviously some plants, rocks and more realistic textures from Quixel megascans still need to be added! I post here a picture I found on the web that I used as starting point and inspiration. Funny enough, what I had in mind was Patagonia by I ended up with a picture of a lake not too far from where I live!
