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[ShadowWolf_IH]

ok I took one of the ones HT was working with me on (read as leading me by the hand through), and i started playing with subtle shadows.  Here.

[watsisname]

Are those all procedurally generated noise and plasma layers?  That's quite remarkable!

@Herra:  That B&W one sure does look like the real thing.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

Yeah, completely random noise.  The entire process was HT's discovery.  mine looks like crap cause it was done in low res, and then scaled up.  You can imagine how it would look done correctly.  Which is what I am working on even as I write this.  Well, actually, I'm writing the tutorial for it, but the only way to do a proper tutorial is to go through it, and explain each step. 

[ShadowWolf_IH]

a work in progress, forget the star field, it's just there for effect.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

The wip above has become this wip.  Currently not scaled.

[Retsof]

I think the occluding bits need to be less sharp and more cloudy.  Other than that it's awesome.

[Herra Tohtori]

Wanted to test how this looks in the forum layout. Alpha channeled nebula, basically ready for being put in-game if converted to DDS. Or for using in Blender to make a skybox texture, or for any other purposes.

[SypheDMar]

That looks really good.

[Antares_Z13]

Here's my nebula, made in 4096x4096 @300 dpi in the style of HerraTohtori/ShadowWolf...quite an effective method I must say.



The full size resolution can be seen here . Comments and the like are welcome as usual. Also you can use this in whatever as long as I get the credit. I intend to turn this baby into a skybox.

Edit: Has to get a"preview" version of the pic cause the original size is too massive. If you want to use the pic then grab the true resolution one so you can see all the details. Trust me.

[watsisname]

* watsisname salivates profusely

[Retsof]

To me it looks less like "a" nebula, and more like something you'd chop up for individual nebulae.  Still awesome though.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

That's exactly what you do restof.


This tileable, so you make a blank image at 8192^2, put a copy of the image in each quadrant, then take what you want and turn them into nebulae.

The tut for making these sheets is in modding.

[Herra Tohtori]

To me it looks less like "a" nebula, and more like something you'd chop up for individual nebulae.  Still awesome though.

Yep, that's what I had in mind when I designed the workflow.

For making a skybox out of it, the simplest way is to make two hemispheric maps, draw a circle on them, then just lasso and drop nebulas into the circle. After you have enough nebulas in the ring, you apply Polar coordinates filter in GIMP and you get a nice spherically distorted map, which you can then use in Blender to apply to a sphere, and the nebulas will then be rendered to a skybox.

Simple as pi.

[3,14]

Hi, I already posted this in the Fate of the Galaxy Forum, it was suggested I should post it here also. So here they are, two planets and a sun.

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[Rodo]

wow, nice work there Pi.

what do you use to make them?

[3,14]

Thank you, there was a little texture work done with a planetary map generator called 'Wilbur' and Gimp. The rest was done inside Blender, it has a very capable Compositor. I forgot to mention, the sun is also animated: http://vimeo.com/38826513

[Rodo]

The cloud map was also done in wilbur?

[3,14]

No those are sattellite images. I tried to make cloud maps manually but never managed to get them realistic.

[Rodo]

I hear you, same problem for me :C

anyways, great GREAT work. I'm actually considering getting back to the hole skybox building theme again after seeing this, been away from it for so long now.