Rama - making of

[den2003]

"New York " really looks like New York here! Simply awesome, but is there a pure Rama version!

[kumbah2006]

Holy Cow ... I've watched the Rama vid twice, and I am in awe ... :)

That's just plain awesome, and this "making of" shows just how

complex the project really was ... ^5

[truth14ful]

How long did the final render take and on what computer?

[ebruneton]

@truth14ful I don't remember exactly. I think it was about 30 min per frame, and the original movie had about 10000 frames (the online version is accelerated two times). So it is about 5000 CPU hours, but I used four PCs in parallel (2005 PCs with Xeon processors, if I remember well). This gives about 50 days.

[lostintheapplasauce]

this makes it seem like manhattan just created itself

[yakumoklesk]

Wonderful. Any book/references you would recommend for introducing into that kind of procedural map generations plus effects? Also was very interesting the trees LOD part. The low LOD circles are billboards with a circle alpha texture?

[MachineFight]

do you think the o`neil collonies will have clouds?

[lostintheapplasauce]

@MachineFight they def could

[Sgrunterundt]

@MachineFight My brother's a geophysicist, I just gave him the idea of doing his masters project on weather patterns in O'Niell cylinders.

I hope he does.

[MachineFight]

@Sgrunterundt Wow, that would be interesting. =) His project could also include a part about the weather in the ring world. =)

[Supergulo]

Wow, just wow...

I can literally see my computer melting if i even tried to make 10% of that...

Congratulations, it is an awesome creation!

[kr01able]

Awsome your work!