[blowfish]

TBH I think the glow could use some work ... but the planet is very good as a whole...

[Jadehawk]

It's really a wonderful piece of work there! As for the glow on the dark side, I'm not so sure it's supposed to have a glow around that part? But having said that, I'm willing to be corrected if such is in fact real.  On my work, I also struggle with how much to add or should I add any at all. It all comes down to what the planet is, what type and so on. 

Nice work! 

[Retsof]

Looks good, just a couple nitpicks on the rings.  You must have used a color-to-alpha on them because they do bot block out the starfeild on the shadowed side.  Also, wouldn't the rings still be visible when shadowed because of the light from the planet itself?

[Rodo]

well well... now it looks really good, well done really beautiful, must have taken you a lot of time to get it done.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Well, thanks for the constructive criticism everyone

Retsof, in reality the rings wouldn't block out all starlight either; they're just a lot of rocks orbiting a planet, but with enough space between them to let some light pass through. I might try and make the rings be lit by the lava a bit though, I like the idea.

[jr2]

Ref pics if anyone finds them useful for objects from our solar system.  If not, they're pretty anyways.

[watsisname]

I tried making a solar system.

But then I exploded it.

[Wobble73]

I tried making a solar system.

But then I exploded it.

*snip*

WOW! That's nice! That explosion reminds me of the Nexus Stream from the first Star Trek Next Gen' film.

[Rodo]

nice lighting effect on the planet's surface, what program did you use to do that?

[shiv]

Reminds me battlestar Galactica Season 3 supernova

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Whoa, that's really impressive. Especially the explosion.

nice lighting effect on the planet's surface, what program did you use to do that?

Looks like Terragen.

[watsisname]

Yep, the landscape and lighting is done with Terragen, and the explosion is a couple of apophysis fractals editted with GIMP and then some zoom-blur to make the rays.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I've been working on a hi-quality Ross 128, planet SR-5 (or whatever its name may be)

The original:



Mine (should I do anything else to it?)

[ShadowGorrath]

It's cloudless! 

[Rodo]

uhhh shiniiii 

it's true it looks kinda empty without clouds, but with clouds you might not be able to see the elevation of the terrain with that detail.

[watsisname]

The atmosphere and terrain are really well done and faithful to the original, but I can't help but feel it's missing something.  I think it's really hard to tell what exactly is going on with this planet just from the scene...  somehow it always struck me as a frozen planet with an atmosphere, but that could be subjective.

At any rate my suggestion would be to add a little extra variation to it, this could either be from some clouds (not too much since I don't think you want to hide too much of that nice surface), or just some small brightness/contrast differences directly to the surface to give it a bit more flavor.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Is this one better? I'm not sure about the new terrain...

[tinfoil]

I like. One thing you could do is make it look a little more frozen.

[The E]

Yeah, frozen should work. Like some sort of Mountain Range.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Crevices less dark, overall whiteness up for added coldness. Does it work this way?