Making of "Refueling at OrMorFour" by Patrick Merminod
The first important thing I considered in my scene was the atmosphere. I started with a plain fair weather spectral atmosphere with radiosity. Then I changed the settings as follow for the lighting, the clouds and sky settings:
I set the z camera position at a value of 370 m. The whole scene is situated above the clouds. The result was quite interesting and I didn’t know at this stage of the conception what kind of objects I would like to add to populate my scene. I had downloaded many weeks ago some of the beautiful models created by Thor Danielsen aka originalmoron. I first put his model of a landing platform just above the camera. After some attempts with different positions of the sun, and different textures, the result was quite interesting.
I used some boolean modelling for the buildings on the right, and also some of the beautiful ‘nurnies’ provided as free objects on Thor’s website.
To complete my scene, I decided to use some other models created by originalmoron. I used his two ships: The ‘Heimdal’ and the ‘Evo’.
All this stuff is then added into the scene. The right position of all objects is a long ‘try and reject’ process! Finally, the ‘roll’ parameter for the camera is set to 354 degrees to increase the sense of floating. Some details, for example the small characters, are visually important because the help the eyes and the brain of the spectator when evaluating the relative size of the objects. They increase the sense of depth in the whole picture.
Thank you! Patrick Merminod
