“No-one knows why the colonists decided to nose-dive their ship into the molten proto-planet beneath them, but speculation abounds.
Sudden insanity on the part of the crew? A mutiny, perhaps? Bad sensor data is always a possibility, but was discounted immediately by the ship’s builders shortly before they filed for bankruptcy and executive protection.
But the truth is, we may never know the cause of the catastrophe, why so many normal, rational people, gave up the will to live and ended it all in the fiery death that ended the last flight of the Star Ship ‘In Search Of Tia`ja’
~Encyclopedia Galactic Trivia, 434th Edition”
Notes:
The derelict ship was created in Vue using a handful of primitives poked into place then grouped into a metablob, an idea Chipp Walters has mentioned a lot recently about his “Speed Painting” thing.
It worked out pretty nicely, although I still need to poke some more to get it to use separate textures on selected primitives.
The other advantage to doing it this way rather than an object seems to be it only took 12 minutes to render the original 6400×4000 master image. The whole thing came in just shy of 7000 polys!
Derelict Hell
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