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Title: Planet test
Post by: Ryx on September 22, 2002, 03:07:42 pm

(http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/New/ptrender/pt1024-t.jpg) (http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52019065/New/ptrender/pt1024.jpg)
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Made this as I was doing a 'realistic planet' tutorial. The planet glow could be better among other things, but, generally, it didn't turn out that badly. I'll have to keep working a bit more to get the Brazil render working. I'll probably have to composite that one, though.

Title: Planet test
Post by: Stargazer_2098 on September 22, 2002, 03:51:24 pm

Its good to see another man from Scandinavia here! :)

Anyway:  great work! I like it! :cool::yes:
:nod:


Stargazer.

Title: Planet test
Post by: Carl on September 22, 2002, 04:15:28 pm

wow! that's a great planet! link to tutorial please :nod:

Title: One word, 5 letters
Post by: Star Dragon on September 22, 2002, 11:13:03 pm

SWEET!

Title: Planet test
Post by: Ryx on September 22, 2002, 11:41:14 pm

Here the link to the Earth textures (http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/earth.html). It's the big 10k map, I used. A bit overkill probably, but it looks pretty good up close.

And the planet tutoria (http://www.scifi-meshes.com/tutorials/SFA/planettutorial.htm)l @ scifi-meshes.com (http://www.scifi-meshes.com/indexmain.php)

The changes I made are the glow fx for the planet and I ignored the stuff about the material on dark side of the planet.

Oh and be sure to follow the link to the Hi-rez cloudmap. ;)

Title: Planet test
Post by: Black_Dragon on September 23, 2002, 01:26:33 am

Nice planet  :D

Title: Planet test
Post by: Redfang on September 23, 2002, 08:49:30 am

Whoa, that's amazing! :eek2::yes:
 
I think you're one of the best renderers. :nod::yes:

Title: Planet test
Post by: Ryx on September 23, 2002, 09:18:43 am

Quote

Originally posted by Redfang
Whoa, that's amazing! :eek2::yes:
 
I think you're one of the best renderers. :nod::yes:

thx :)

I do the best I can.
I would be better, if I hadn't started to learn modeling. Some things were forgotten quickly.

Title: Planet test
Post by: Riven on September 23, 2002, 01:05:57 pm

the planet mesh needs to be a higher resolution, you can see the straight lines at the edges.

Title: Planet test
Post by: Stealth on September 23, 2002, 01:11:31 pm

very very very nice man!  good job!

Title: Planet test
Post by: Ryx on September 23, 2002, 11:07:41 pm

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Originally posted by Riven
the planet mesh needs to be a higher resolution, you can see the straight lines at the edges.

That's not a geometry error. When it added the planet glow, it would also give the ships a glow to making it look real bad. So I rendered an image with the alpha (black & white image), which I then used to control the glow.

Title: Planet test
Post by: Nico on September 24, 2002, 02:07:42 am

to avoid that, first make a render of the planet with its glow w/o the ship, and use the pic as a background. no pb anymore.