Eickmeyer Michael

Meridian Trench

I decided to recreate the famous Star Wars meridian trench scene. All three ship models are from sketchfab and imported and exported through via blender. Especially the x-wing was tricky, as it consists of 20 individual parts that had to be exported separately.

The trench was made by myself by extruding an initial plane mesh and subdividing it twice, then applying a geometry node with a random offset to create the surface. I additionally implemented environment map sampling for the sake of this scene. The glass cockpit of the x-wing was sliced into its own mesh to demonstrate mirror materials.

The scene was rendered with 8192 SPP, which took approximately 3.8h to complete. I used regular path tracing with NEE and MIS enabled. For the depth of field, an f-stop of f/8 with a focal distance of 40 was used to focus on the x-wing in front of the camera. No wookies were harmed in the creation of this scene.