Ancient Future City

This city came about from a tutorial I was following when I went a little crazy with the Greeble plugin for 3DS Max. I added a Vue atmosphere and it came to life, so it’s mostly Max but with Vue’s great atmospheres. I wasn’t really aiming for a finished piece here, just playing around with futuristic buildings based on a Digital Tutors tutorial.

Somewhere along the line I decided to use the Greeble plug in which is a free plugin that makes lots of science fiction buildings or at least gives a great looking city. I used this alongside some sci-fi hull textures and rendered them out in Mental Ray. The atmospheres are all Vue and these made for impressive colors and depth without a lot of tweaking.

The complexity of having so many objects with multiple Greebles really caused problems with my video card and it started having errors and display issues and that was not when I was rendering just displaying the regular files. This turned out to be a fun personal project although several hours of waiting for 3DS Max to catch up with every click.