SciFi Renders

[Dalek]

Moving on, I've probably commited sacrilege here.

[Kirk]

Beautiful sacrilege

[Creative Inc]

Update: I've removed the camera focus entirely and reduces the scale of the waves.

[Kirk]

Much better!

[limey BSc.]

Update: I've removed the camera focus entirely and reduces the scale of the waves.

Aww, I quite liked the depth of field

As for the scale, it's looking much better. Could perhaps do with a little more. The Sov doesn't look like it could be much more than a couple of hundred meters there.
That's nitpicking though. It does look fantastic!

Any chance of either the scene or a quick video/tutorial on how that water was done?

[deadthunder2_0]

Moving on, I've probably commited sacrilege here.

A Proxima class?

[mckinneyc]

Moving on, I've probably commited sacrilege here.

You have actually proved that the new Star Trek movie could have been set in the prime universe and still looked great!

[Dalek]

A Proxima class?

Not specifically but the JJ designs. Its a bit of a joke for those who weren't particularly fond of the movie.

You have actually proved that the new Star Trek movie could have been set in the prime universe and still looked great!

I guess that says a lot.

[Villain]

I could mock up a tutorial on water scenes. I've been toying with it a lot lately, and I'm sure it could be easily translated into max.

[Creative Inc]

Here's a 3ds max 9 scene with some water. You can check out the material settings to see how I did it. Actually, this is different then how I made the water in the render above but this way still works. Quick note, this scene utilizes Mental Ray for some of the materials.

Edit: I've attached the height map used on the ground plane. You will need it unless you can supply another height map for the displacement.

[Locke]

I absolutely LOVE playing with displacement maps and/or bump maps, especially when you get something like water or terrain, since you can play with the fun tools in your texture editor software and make some abstract image that becomes a topographical feature.  Pretty neat, I think!  I'd like to see some more tutorial-type stuff about this, if you can.

[Creative Inc]

Actually, if you didn't already notice, that height map can be tiled seamlessly.

[Dalek]

After much confusion and annoyance, limey and I managed to create a successful atmosphere. And, here you have it.

[Creative Inc]

Hey, that's pretty neat. Kinda has a blue hue to it though. Can I ask how you did it?

[Dalek]

This tutorial. http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/planet/ Just the first page. The earth and clouds were provided by limey as bitmaps.

The only problem with the atmosphere is that the sphere its applied to has to be adjusted (i.e. rotated) manually whenever the camera/viewport is moved.

[limey BSc.]

This tutorial. http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/planet/ Just the first page. The earth and clouds were provided by limey as bitmaps.

The only problem with the atmosphere is that the sphere its applied to has to be adjusted (i.e. rotated) manually whenever the camera/viewport is moved.

I should point out, I added a look-at constraint to the atmosphere to do the rotating automatically, but for some reason, while it worked fine on my computer, it didn't on Daleks. No idea why.

I also modified the resulting material slightly to also give a thin white ring around the entire planet, but Dalek didn't like it and removed it

[Toa_Kaita]

Two more from me, the Enterprise D and the Galaxy Dreadnaught by KnightRider.

[Dalek]

I also modified the resulting material slightly to also give a thin white ring around the entire planet, but Dalek didn't like it and removed it

Hey, you're the one that said I should be happy with what I have.

Two more from me, the Enterprise D and the Galaxy Dreadnaught by KnightRider.

Very nice! But don't do image url's they become impossible to see on smaller sized monitors.

[Creative Inc]

Here is a Max scene file with the atmosphere I use. Try it out if you like. You need Max 9 or higher.
This one can be shot from any angle. It reacts the same way as a real atmosphere so if there is no light or if the light is at the wrong angle, you won't see it. So position your lights accordingly.

[Kirk]

+krama

I like that!