[Snail]

Most of the landmass was uninhabitable, not only cities.

[Enioch]

This thread is teh awsome...

Texturing the Zephyrus was getting repetitive and kinda boring, so I thought I'd play around with planets for a while.

I tried Terragen 2 for a bit (3-4 days), but I got lost -it was hard to make it do exactly what I wanted it to do. It had a tendency of splattering mountains all over the place, even when I blended its shaders. So I went back to my trusty MAX 7 and, as an act of defiance,  slapped this baby together in...oh, an afternoon more or less.

I'm thinking of toning down the brightness on the top right part. It's a bit 'blinding'

The uploaded image is 800x800. If anybody wants it, I can provide renders up to 2048^2.

Clouds: Thank you NASA! (BlueMarble)

[Rodo]

well the atmosphere glow and  the terraing glow on the lighter part looks kinda off, but the terrain effect looks nice 

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Seconded. A bit too bright overall, but  I'm very impressed by your mountains. They're among the most convincing I've ever seen

[Enioch]

Thanks!

Here's another one -this one is a gas giant with a couple of asteroid belts around it. Again, I got some cloud maps off NASA.



I'm thumbnail linking to it because the rings only look good when it's 2048^2. I flapped a glow effect on them (hey, they're ICE! it GLOWS! ) and it kinda sucks at lower resolutions. I can downsize it, but it'll need another render.

I kinda like making planets . I decided that I'm taking commissions, if anybody's interested.

BTW, fjords in previous planet: ©Slartibartfast, 4 billion yrs AD, Magrathea Planet Construction Ind.

[Rodo]

the hole planet looks like an artist point of view... like a painting or something, I like the effect on the planet's surface but the rings are not quite there.
hey check this link up, might give you an idea on how to do a ring... personally I found it useless since I don't use a modelling program just a image soft, but seems like you are using 3ds max or something like that.

Keep going I'm getting the mood again seeing at your stuff ^^

[peterv]

the hole planet looks like an artist point of view... like a painting or something

Agreed and i love it that way. Especially the second one which is my favorite. Good work 

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Planets make good breaks while studying... How are these? Thanks to NASA for the clouds on the second one.
- Oops, just noticed the ring defect on the first one The bottom inner part is supposed to be greenish as well.

Gas giant, now with rings:



Habitable planet:

[Snail]

THE SECOND ONE IS AMAZING

Can has in ED?

[shiv]

Can has in ED?

[FreeSpaceFreak]

THE SECOND ONE IS AMAZING

Good to hear my biggest critic say that

[Snail]

THE SECOND ONE IS AMAZING

Good to hear my biggest critic say that

IT IS AMAZING

[shiv]

Where's the new stuff?

[captain-custard]

Where's the new stuff?

hiding

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Well, since you're asking for it... A small present from ASW. We can't use it, so anyone can have it.

[Snail]

Hmm. I wonder who lives there.

[Mobius]

We can't use it, so anyone can have it.

Why?

[FreeSpaceFreak]

The light is coming from the wrong direction. We could keep it for ASW full, but we don't know if there would be a use for it. So keeping it for ourselves would be selfish.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Question for the planet artists here: has anyone seen this before, and more importantly, do you know how to fix it? (Effect slightly exaggerated.) Gaussian blur does nothing. I think it's caused by playing with the colour/brightness , but I can't work it away. Even when I down-scale the planet to 2048x2048, it's still visible.

[blowfish]

Is this with or without DXT compression?