DarkMeasures
New Member
If you do manage to build the interior, you should make a ride video with it. I don't think I have ever ridden Horizons, and if I have, then I was only a couple years old.
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Remembering and Rebuilding Horizons
- Thread starter Tocpe
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Hi DarkMeasures!
I've been toying with the idea of rebuilding the inside of Horizons for sometime. I have one other project that I need to finish before I start on the interior version of Horizons though.
Because of the nature of Horizons ride itself, I'm concerned that a pre-rendered animation may not be able to do it justice. So over the last couple of months I've been looking into ways of making the re-creation a bit more interactive. I hate to use the term because it's so overused/misused, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to make the experience more "virtual". In the original ride a lot of the scenes blended into each other. This blending makes it difficult to capture the ride faithfully with a simple camera even a camera in a 3D animation can't capture it well.
While this blending makes for difficult taping of the ride, it made for a very enveloping, engaging, and engrossing experience. It's probably why so many of us have such fond memories of Horizons. (Like yours truly)
As far as ride video goes, there's a couple of them floating around the net. You might wanna check out the Digital Media & Photos forum for some folks that have digitized their old footage of the ride. Just remember that there was a LOT to see while on this attraction and that it was difficult to capture it all.
I've been toying with the idea of rebuilding the inside of Horizons for sometime. I have one other project that I need to finish before I start on the interior version of Horizons though.
Because of the nature of Horizons ride itself, I'm concerned that a pre-rendered animation may not be able to do it justice.
So over the last couple of months I've been looking into ways of making the re-creation a bit more interactive. I hate to use the term because it's so overused/misused, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to make the experience more "virtual". In the original ride a lot of the scenes blended into each other. This blending makes it difficult to capture the ride faithfully with a simple camera even a camera in a 3D animation can't capture it well. While this blending makes for difficult taping of the ride, it made for a very enveloping, engaging, and engrossing experience. It's probably why so many of us have such fond memories of Horizons.
(Like yours truly) As far as ride video goes, there's a couple of them floating around the net. You might wanna check out the Digital Media & Photos forum for some folks that have digitized their old footage of the ride. Just remember that there was a LOT to see while on this attraction and that it was difficult to capture it all.
If anyone does try to recreate the Horizons interior, have a look in my photo album here:
http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/showphoto.php?photo=6987&size=big&password=&sort=1&cat=500
Hope it helps - Its not 100% accurate, but I tried to get the layout and respective levels correct.
http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/showphoto.php?photo=6987&size=big&password=&sort=1&cat=500
Hope it helps - Its not 100% accurate, but I tried to get the layout and respective levels correct.
Well, after quite a delay I've begun working on the project again. Last year was crazy and I wasn't able to spend too much time on it. And until here recently I was pretty busy too. I've recently upgraded to Softimage's XSI 4.2 so my new renders will look really, really nice.
I just wanted to let you guys know to keep an eye on this thread cause in the next couple of days I'll have some new renders to post. I just have a little bit of tweaking to finish before I can post the updated model.
I just wanted to let you guys know to keep an eye on this thread cause in the next couple of days I'll have some new renders to post. I just have a little bit of tweaking to finish before I can post the updated model.
DRJJH1
Member
If you guys like 3D renderings of an old ride you may want to check out this guy's site. He is doing a 3D recreation of Mr Toads Wild Ride...http://www.virtual-toad.com/index.html
I'm still tweaking the lighting and will be replacing the sky in the final version, but here's a peek at what I've been up to:
Well I've finished tweaking the lighting and environment for now. I've posted a journal entry for the progress here:
http://www.deepwaterstudios.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=13
http://www.deepwaterstudios.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=13
onevision4
New Member
Hey, do you all know where I could get pictures of the Horizons building, and possibly of the ride. See, it was my favorite ride as a child, and before I could go on it one more time to get pictures of it, it closed down, and to this day, it's still my favorite ride, next to the alien attack ride that is no longer in use. Well, anyways, if you could help me find pics of them, that would just make my day.
onevision4 said:
The best source I've found, and one I've used *a lot* during this project is Planet7's Photo CD:
http://planet7.home.mindspring.com/photocd/
It's got a lot of Horizons photos, even some close up and detail photos. Plus it has a whole bunch of photos of WDW as well.
Laufschneller65
Member
this is absolutely amazing. I love it. You do a great job and I can't wait to see more from you.
Did you ever consider making your own rides with this?
it would be cool to see someone design a ride and we get to see the inside and outside complete!!!
Did you ever consider making your own rides with this?
it would be cool to see someone design a ride and we get to see the inside and outside complete!!!
jedimaster1227
Active Member
Dude, you are extremely talented!
