A Work in Progress: Alien Power Station



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The orb is simply a perfect sphere with a luminace material. Make the colour a little yellow and put the brightness to 250%

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The magnetic containers start as a cube and have been modelled in a couple of ways to make them look like this. They have a basic metal material. This tab shows reflection.

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This is just that same object after it is placed into a hyperhurbs. It also shows more material options.

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Use an array object to make the duplications in a circle.

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Short cylinders for the receivers in the same array formation and a more decorated center plate.

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A atom array on a sphere which was triangulated.

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Scene so far. Also shows the visible light that was placed within the center spheres. This light was visible and creates the fog/ chunks of light.

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Render thus far without base plate.

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Landscape. Used the landscape object and played with the settings until I got it looking the way I wanted. It started off as a square but it had 1,000,000 polys so I deleted as much as would not be in the final camera scene.

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The green thing is the camera, this shows the angle and the placement of it. I also added a sky object with one of my own images. This creates the reflections on the magnets.

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My own pictures used for one texture

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Render settings.
Global illumination on medium settings. This allows the luminance sphere in the middle to act as a lightsource.
Anti Aliasing on 4x
Ambient Occlusion on default medium settings.

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Final result

Creation of Alien Power Station: Final Result

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