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Good Night Earth Dream

Good Night Earth Dream

My new render of the Earth

http://home.comcast.net/~van.etten/Support/earth0000.jpg
I thought I would preview my new render of the Earth. It's going to take 3 days to render the entire rotation of the earth in the one minute video, so I was hoping for some feedback before I let it run for the entire 3 days.

The dream will be one minute long and will follow the sunrise around the Earth.

EDIT 10/16/07: Changed the view to have space on top left and flow the morning around.
EDIT 10/19/07: I think I got the atmosphere done and lowered the altitude of the clouds


Thanks,
Master Baron
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Reply #26 Top
Cool, looking forward to seeing the results. Good luck with the baking.
Reply #27 Top
I cannot wain to see how nice this will lokk, Thanks for all of your hard work....it really looks ike it will pay off!  
Reply #28 Top
I can't wait!!! I love all of the dreams that have a view of the earth... This could the dream that stays on my desktop for all of eternity!
Reply #29 Top
All I can say is I can't wait! I love Eart dreams, space dreams and nature dreams. Now if only the Nvidia drivers would become more stable, that would be nice too.
Reply #30 Top
Is this the dream you are referring too?
WWW Link
If it is I already have this. Or is this to be a better version of the same such or type of dream.
It is the one and only dream I like. So if yours is better count on me buying it!

SGT
Reply #31 Top
Is this going to be a Master Skin?

Oh yeah, did you start a render yet?
Reply #32 Top
Is this the dream you are referring too?
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I haven't purchased this dream and there are no previews or screen shots other than the one on the purchase page so I don't know if it can zoom in get a horizon type view.

Is this going to be a Master Skin?
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I haven't decided yet, but leaning to yes. I've put many hours into this one. Some of my dreams will be Master Skins and some will be free. I will try and make more free ones than Master Skins.

Oh yeah, did you start a render yet?
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I've just got back from vacation and it finished while I was away. My first attempt at making a WMV file has produced a 378MB WMV file! I will begin to work the file size down to something reasonable and hopefully I will be able to produce something in MPEG2 form.

Thanks,
Master Baron
Reply #33 Top
Master Baron,

I appreciate your work, don't get me wrong. But on October 14th you gave hint of 3 days to render. I've been checking back every couple of days for almost a month, only to find out you just returned from holidays. Now, if I understand correctly, you want to charge for this awesome looking render. Until your latest post I didn't know that. I will not be checking back. Not because it sounds like you are planning to charge for your work so much as I feel you've left us hanging for quite some time already and I've lost interest on a personal level.

Good luck with your work. I don't doubt you will be financially successful as it appears it is going to be a beautiful dream.

Jay
Reply #34 Top
I feel you've left us hanging for quite some time already and I've lost interest on a personal level.
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Sorry about that, it took a week to render, (It finished while I was on vacation) and that was after lots and lots or tweaking. The problem is that while a single screen shot looked good, when I animated it flickered like crazy. It took awhile for me to find the right settings to get a good animation. And because it was so slow to make just a few seconds, it was a long process.

Since my last post I had to convert the final render (24GB in size) to MPEG2, and again, lots of tweaking to find a good balance between quality and file size. I'm not an expert at 3DS Max and MPEG2 encoding so it's been a lot of trial and error for me.

Now, today I'm working on slowing the rotation down as it's too fast.

Basically, I didn't anticipate how slow 3D rendering and how large the files would be and it's taking me days to do things that normally took hours.

Master Baron

Reply #35 Top
24GB in size
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  I'd download that just out of curiosity.
Reply #36 Top
yeah, you download that. I live in Belgium. I only can download 10gig in a month (we still got limits to our download) so this would take 3 months without doing something else. Belgium internet sucks.
Reply #37 Top
24 gig is a lot... How are you going to turn it into a ~100 MB dream?
Reply #38 Top
The 24GB is the uncompressed 1920x1200, 30fps, 2 minute, render result. It amazing how big an image is when no compression is applied. I did get it down to a 112MB MPEG2 but at a 1152x720 resolution. The best part is that it still looks damn good. I hope to see it up on the site pretty soon.
Reply #39 Top
Sounds good! 112 mb thats small compared to the 24gb size.
Ready to give it a try here...
SGT