Interplanetary Promotion: phpBB 3 "Olympus"

[mich181189]

When put in perspective and to scale, that Olympus Mons phpbb is a biggy, has taken years to carve out a reputable niche, and will obviously be a "big" hit and looks like one big mother from my vantage point


** nice graphics subBlue -- on the lighting and trenching effects **

/me wondering if dhn has conflicts with Venus

very true...

[olger901]

You also gonna post it on Jupiter, Pluto, Venus and other planets?

[Pit]

GrahamJE has explained to me that you hijacked the Beagle 2 probe for this purpose. May I just express my approval of this, and my hope that it involved huge lasers.

[naderman]

Well, in no way comparable with what subBlue created, but I thought I'd share with you



Did you know Bertie was the first bear ever spotted on Mars?

naderman

[Virtuality]

It doesn't work for me.

[SHS`]

Well, in no way comparable with what subBlue created, but I thought I'd share with you

[img: bertie_at_mars.jpg]

Did you know Bertie was the first bear ever spotted on Mars?

naderman

Hahahaha!

[subBlue]

Well, in no way comparable with what subBlue created, but I thought I'd share with you

Did you know Bertie was the first bear ever spotted on Mars?

naderman

NASA needs to take note that all you need to survive the harsh Martian atmosphere is a nice woolly jumper (and a bit of fur)

[Virtuality]

Well, in no way comparable with what subBlue created, but I thought I'd share with you

Did you know Bertie was the first bear ever spotted on Mars?

naderman

NASA needs to take note that all you need to survive the harsh Martian atmosphere is a nice woolly jumper (and a bit of fur)

subBlue, why isn't the image working? I wanna see it! Now, when I look closer, subblue.com doesn't work either.

[Spectral Dragon]

That's awesome Subblue. Is this the reason 3 is codenamed or is the codename the reason for the picture?

[subBlue]

For those of you interested, the image was rendered using a program called Terragen (you can download a trial). The terrain was created from real elevation data of Olympus Mons which is available from space-graphics.com.
To create the phpBB cutout I used a little program called TerraConv, which converts the elevation data into a 16bit greyscale TIFF. This was then taken into photoshop and the phpBB lettering overlayed at a slightly darker shade of grey (so it cuts into the height of the mountain).
Terragen has preset textures for a Martian surface and atmosphere, which were used. I also scaled the height of the mountain by 400% (in real life it is actually 27km high, but so wide that the slope looks quite gradual, which doesn't make for such a dramatic image

Spectral Dragon: The phpBB releases line are now named after Martian mountains - hence the next version being called 'Olympus'