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Shift Change at Pier 3
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The streets of Ishida\'s Town are always busy during shift change. The bars, clubs, and shops at the entrance to Pier 3 prepare for the inevitable onslaught of miners looking for one last stop before returning to their beds. People of all trades crowd the streets. Some are prospectors, praying to their gods for a ripe find. Some are tourists who came looking for adventure on a new world.
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Oofda this is a big build. Sitting in at a hair under 12000 parts, it is by far the largest I have ever made--and likely will ever make.
A huge Thank You to mecabricks for sponsoring this scene and for the many suggestions and much render help along the way!
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Ok, so, head-cannon time: Ishida\'s Town is built into the retired mining canyons circling the Ishida Stack. The Stack is one of the older models still in use on Hibernia and only has a useful range of half a kilometer or so (I actually am working on a miniature of the city, stack and all and I don\'t think it looks good when its massive). The canyons were cut years earlier and have since been filled with bridges and tunnels and lined with facades of every shop, bar, and club imaginable.
There are three structures, the Piers, arranged at three cardinal directions on the outer ring. The Piers house control equipment for the Stack, as well as enclosed hangers and elevators to the deepest mines. The depth of the canyons fluctuates but is on average, 5 stories. In the outer ring, embedded buildings tend to only rise to the third level, but the walls of most of the inner rings have been entirely replaced with concrete and neon.
The canyons are open to the Hibernian atmosphere but the Stack provides a reasonable blanket of breathable air to the city surrounding it. The gasses it outputs is mixture of oxygen and inert chemicals that makes it heavier than the majority of the atmosphere, allowing it to fall and fill the canyons. The gas is enough to support the inhabitants but newcomers who are unacustomed to the odd air need to wear masks until they acclimate.
The geothermal generator plant used to power the Stack also heats the city to a livable 5C. However, those wanting to wear more revealing clothing either have to be Canadian or apply layers of a colored compound to their skin. This compound traps escaping heat rather well and, like most things, is rapidly evolving into the new hip fashion trend.
Not everyone is succesful in finding work on Hibernia. The Church of the Holy Sanctum claims debts on new downtrodden souls every day. Miners who lost their limbs in accidents can be seen begging for the credits to purchase cheap prosthetics. And over all of them watches the Baron Ishida himself...
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And now, some fun details of the build:
Nearly 12000 parts, around 400 of them in the ~60 figures. Even though the scene is static and I never planned on showing more beyond the intersection, the build does continue. There are also 4 window-boxes behind the various windows, but only 2 of them are visible here and even then, you would be hard-pressed to make out any details. Even the floor, which was going to be completely obscured by figures from the very beginning is packed with detail. There are many interlocking wedge sections that give it a nice, beaten-earth look.
Rendering this was a pain. The first time I attempted a final render, it was terminated due to the file size. Nicolas attempted to render the file on his personal machine but found that at a file size of 2.5GB, it wouldn\'t even open. I eventually had to tone back my ambitious detail settings :,(
As such, I don\'t think I will be making the model public on Mecabricks as I had planned. Most people couldn\'t even open the Isadora and that only had 2/3 the parts and no lights. Better-lit shots of the facade are visible here.
All-in-all, 7 months of off-and-on work well spent!
Shift Change at Pier 3
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The streets of Ishida\'s Town are always busy during shift change. The bars, clubs, and shops at the entrance to Pier 3 prepare for the inevitable onslaught of miners looking for one last stop before returning to their beds. People of all trades crowd the streets. Some are prospectors, praying to their gods for a ripe find. Some are tourists who came looking for adventure on a new world.
--
Oofda this is a big build. Sitting in at a hair under 12000 parts, it is by far the largest I have ever made--and likely will ever make.
A huge Thank You to mecabricks for sponsoring this scene and for the many suggestions and much render help along the way!
---
Ok, so, head-cannon time: Ishida\'s Town is built into the retired mining canyons circling the Ishida Stack. The Stack is one of the older models still in use on Hibernia and only has a useful range of half a kilometer or so (I actually am working on a miniature of the city, stack and all and I don\'t think it looks good when its massive). The canyons were cut years earlier and have since been filled with bridges and tunnels and lined with facades of every shop, bar, and club imaginable.
There are three structures, the Piers, arranged at three cardinal directions on the outer ring. The Piers house control equipment for the Stack, as well as enclosed hangers and elevators to the deepest mines. The depth of the canyons fluctuates but is on average, 5 stories. In the outer ring, embedded buildings tend to only rise to the third level, but the walls of most of the inner rings have been entirely replaced with concrete and neon.
The canyons are open to the Hibernian atmosphere but the Stack provides a reasonable blanket of breathable air to the city surrounding it. The gasses it outputs is mixture of oxygen and inert chemicals that makes it heavier than the majority of the atmosphere, allowing it to fall and fill the canyons. The gas is enough to support the inhabitants but newcomers who are unacustomed to the odd air need to wear masks until they acclimate.
The geothermal generator plant used to power the Stack also heats the city to a livable 5C. However, those wanting to wear more revealing clothing either have to be Canadian or apply layers of a colored compound to their skin. This compound traps escaping heat rather well and, like most things, is rapidly evolving into the new hip fashion trend.
Not everyone is succesful in finding work on Hibernia. The Church of the Holy Sanctum claims debts on new downtrodden souls every day. Miners who lost their limbs in accidents can be seen begging for the credits to purchase cheap prosthetics. And over all of them watches the Baron Ishida himself...
----
And now, some fun details of the build:
Nearly 12000 parts, around 400 of them in the ~60 figures. Even though the scene is static and I never planned on showing more beyond the intersection, the build does continue. There are also 4 window-boxes behind the various windows, but only 2 of them are visible here and even then, you would be hard-pressed to make out any details. Even the floor, which was going to be completely obscured by figures from the very beginning is packed with detail. There are many interlocking wedge sections that give it a nice, beaten-earth look.
Rendering this was a pain. The first time I attempted a final render, it was terminated due to the file size. Nicolas attempted to render the file on his personal machine but found that at a file size of 2.5GB, it wouldn\'t even open. I eventually had to tone back my ambitious detail settings :,(
As such, I don\'t think I will be making the model public on Mecabricks as I had planned. Most people couldn\'t even open the Isadora and that only had 2/3 the parts and no lights. Better-lit shots of the facade are visible here.
All-in-all, 7 months of off-and-on work well spent!