[brandx0]

Just some that I cooked up tonight for the hell of it

Tatooine


Hoth


Kessel


Corellia


Coruscant

[Stormkeeper]

Kessel looks like a peanut.

And the rest look like they came straight out of EAW.

Excellent work thar.

[Wobble73]

I'm sure I'm showing my ignorance here, but why IS Kessel so screwy?? Wouldn't a planet shaped like that break itself apart due to gravity?

[Stormkeeper]

Kessel

No idea. Wookieepedia has no idea, either.

[Snail]

It's because it's right next to a black hole cluster, I expect.

[Stormkeeper]

Not really. There's at least one other system between it and the Maw, iirc.

[Snail]

Uhh, not according to Kevin J. Ander****.

[Al Tarket]

is the other system Honoghr? klatooine? thats between kessel and maw.

[Galemp]

That's the Zahn Coruscant, not the Lucas Coruscant, correct? I believe the one in the movies had overlapping circles on the surface and straighter lines.

[Herra Tohtori]

Kessel isn't a planet, that's why it looks so screwed up (which, incidentally, it is). It wouldn't classify even as a plutoid, it's just a big asteroid with artificial atmosphere and some mining activity...

The city textures of Coruscant and Corellia look a bit strange though, I can't really put my finger to it but it looks almost like they weren't spherically mapped to a sphere but overlayed on the planet kinda like an overthought or something. Natural north-south-east-west directions of streets don't match on polar regions. I could be wrong though...

[Shade]

That's the Zahn Coruscant, not the Lucas Coruscant, correct?

Could be the same, for all we know the Lucas version is just on the far side Anyway, it looks great, as do Tatooine and Hoth (though that might benefit from some cracks in the ice, like Europa has but much less pronounced).

Kessel I don't really like, I know it's supposd to have something like that shape, but that image doesn't really work imo... too blurry and it looks like it has some kind of soil on the surface instead of just rock, which doesn't befit what is essentially a large asteroid. And finally Corellia, the planet itself looks fine but the clouds need some work.

[LordMelvin]

okay, theys is all awesome.

Question: given that Kessel is a sub-plutoid chunk of rock, what are the odds of a model being done such that we can reenact either the Runaway Droid Ride or Descent-style tunnel missions? Y'know, since the planet's so small, relatively speaking, compared to other plantes...

[chief1983]

I tend to agree on Kessel, seems like it has way too much atmosphere, based on the little I read about it.

[brandx0]

Constructive criticism taken.

As for Kessel being small by the way, according to the Wiki, it's still roughly 7000 km in diameter, making it about the size of mars

[Jeff Vader]

Would it be too much to ask for a bit larger pictures (something as wide or wider than 1280 and as high or higher than 800). If there ever was some serious wallpaper material, the Coruscant would be it.

[brandx0]

I can do a resize, but their native resolution is 1024^2

As for Herra's comment, remember that those aren't streets.  At this large of a scale each few lighted pixels is a city the size of New York or London.  Of course they won't line up NSEW.

I'll work on the clouds for Corellia, and lessen Kessel's atmosphere, though I didn't wanna make it too well defined considering it's still the size of a planet. 

[blowfish]

IMO it would still do good to spherize it.  But still, very nice work

[Shade]

A planet 7000km in diameter would never look like that, though. Its own gravity would pull it into a roughly spherical shape. A high rate of spin or a close proximity to a very strong source of gravity could flatten or elongate it somewhat, but it wouldn't end up looking like peanut. I know it's fiction, but my mind rejects the thought of something that big looking like that

[brandx0]

Yeah I know, it's messed up and defies all sense of physics in my head too.  So I had to make the choice: Make it peanut shaped or make something that doesn't look like what Kessel is supposed to look like hehe.

My explanation is that because it's so full of spice (read: drugs) it just BLOWS YOUR MIND, man... It's trippy like that.

[Snail]

My explanation is that because it's so full of spice (read: drugs) it just BLOWS YOUR MIND, man... It's trippy like that.

Funneh.