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What? Less then 24 hours after saying don't expect anything for a while?

After last night's renders I spent some time this morning staring at the results in a loop and found five problems - all pretty easy to solve. Found a couple more since, including a bizarre problem where the "passage lights" were out in space - it looked like reflections of other lights in the dome, when viewed from inside - it was probably a stray click-and-drag - but I found and fixed it.

Which got me to this view. (Click it a time or two to get the full view - if you dare!)

It does put that dome that I clonged onto the Scout Ship under a bit of a microscope. As I noted to Molly a while back, the prop is one sided - I generated the obj file from a Python script I wrote. The beams have no backside - you can see that best where the ones in the foreground go past the vertical ring. I may yet fix that. This view also highlighted that those beams get pretty darned thin towards the middle - I'm thinking that dome may be a bit fragile near top-dead-center.

As to the ongoing project - I expect to have "final" image sequences for the hand scanner and console by tomorrow morning. Then - it should be just be a simple matter of a couple of weeks of rendering: heating this part of my house with an iMac.

Description
What? Less then 24 hours after saying don't expect anything for a while?

After last night's renders I spent some time this morning staring at the results in a loop and found five problems - all pretty easy to solve. Found a couple more since, including a bizarre problem where the "passage lights" were out in space - it looked like reflections of other lights in the dome, when viewed from inside - it was probably a stray click-and-drag - but I found and fixed it.

Which got me to this view. (Click it a time or two to get the full view - if you dare!)

It does put that dome that I clonged onto the Scout Ship under a bit of a microscope. As I noted to Molly a while back, the prop is one sided - I generated the obj file from a Python script I wrote. The beams have no backside - you can see that best where the ones in the foreground go past the vertical ring. I may yet fix that. This view also highlighted that those beams get pretty darned thin towards the middle - I'm thinking that dome may be a bit fragile near top-dead-center.

As to the ongoing project - I expect to have "final" image sequences for the hand scanner and console by tomorrow morning. Then - it should be just be a simple matter of a couple of weeks of rendering: heating this part of my house with an iMac.