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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Fate of the Galaxy => Topic started by: brandx0 on July 30, 2008, 06:25:42 am
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Just some that I cooked up tonight for the hell of it
Tatooine
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7571/tatooinecopywe7.jpg)
Hoth
(http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5715/hothcopyjw8.jpg)
Kessel
(http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6041/kesselcopyla9.jpg)
Corellia
(http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9772/corelliacopydw0.jpg)
Coruscant
(http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8440/coruscantcopyad7.jpg)
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Kessel looks like a peanut.
And the rest look like they came straight out of EAW.
Excellent work thar.
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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?
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Kessel (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel)
No idea. Wookieepedia has no idea, either.
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It's because it's right next to a black hole cluster, I expect.
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Not really. There's at least one other system between it and the Maw, iirc.
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Uhh, not according to Kevin J. Ander****.
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is the other system Honoghr? klatooine? thats between kessel and maw.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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I tend to agree on Kessel, seems like it has way too much atmosphere, based on the little I read about it.
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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
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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.
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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.
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IMO it would still do good to spherize it. But still, very nice work :yes:
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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 :p
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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.
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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. :yes:
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Some updates:
Corellia
(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/7513/corellianewcopyxv2.jpg)
Coruscant
(http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5752/coruscantcopyut1.jpg)
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Just some that I cooked up tonight for the hell of it
Weren't you worried that this statement and it's implications would make all the other modelers and artists hate your guts? I know I probably almost would if they didn't look so dang cool.
BTW I can't see Kessel. Think it's a temporary problem or something with Imageshack?
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Hehe, I'm sorry, I'll try less in the future.
And don't worry about Kessel, got a new version here, along with some new clouds on Corellia
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1567/corellianewcopyia1.jpg)
(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9937/kesselnewcopyul7.jpg)
Figured I'd add in some little mineral veins for the hell of it.
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They're both big improvements, Corellia's great, but Kessel still doesn't seem random enough, to be an asteroid-planet. Like it's too smooth, even with the mineral veins. The darker portion seems to be more rocky, although that might be atmosphere, I'm not sure. It's much closer to what's in my mind when I think of Kessel, but it still doesn't seem close enough, especially compared to Coruscant and Tatooine.
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I feel that Coruscant is missing its circles.
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Coruscant now has circles:
(http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/681/coruscantcopyir8.jpg)
And a new Kessel.
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2408/kessel3copyqk5.jpg)
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Oh, and I forgot to mention, the clouds for Corellia come to us courtesy of Herra
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Both are great, I didn't think Coruscant could get better, but it did. Kessel seems out of focus, like the picture was taken with a disposable camera instead of a properly configured SLR. But the way it's set up seems great.
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Forest Moon of Endor
(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1160/forestmoonofendorcopylg4.jpg)
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It all depends on which Kessel you refer to. Imperial Kessel would have more atmosphere, because for some reason iirc they had the atmosphere factories going full tilt. Convict-Kessel would be more like a big rock, with less atmosphere because apparently the convicts don't like breathing.
Love it so far. Keep up the god work.
What program, may I ask?
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Photoshop CS3
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Love it so far. Keep up the god work.
One would think that typo was deliberate! Making planets is god work! :lol: ;)
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I'm curious about Endor. Why is the icy part (I'll assume its a pole) directly illuminated by the star?
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I like them. I like them alot. Especially Endor-moon and Corellia.
And Coruscant.
And Kessel.
Okay, these are all awesome... but they're not what I wanted to see. Where's Gavin Darklighter's X-wing? you did the rest of the squadron...
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Turambar is supposed to be working on it, but I haven't heard anything about it since he first asked to do it.
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They look too flat... like you just took an image and cut out a circle.
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I can't believe how awesome those look! It makes me want to vomit in shame.
So to speak.
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They look too flat... like you just took an image and cut out a circle.
I honestly think you're nuts. There is clear spherical distortion towards the edge of every one of those planets, in all layers, clouds and surface. Even still, I think Brand is just getting warmed up.
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Are you going to do Kessel's garrison moon?
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Possibly, though I always thought it weird that a potato shaped planet the size of Mars (Which cannot physically exist.. by the way) would have a perfectly spherical moon (Which can exist, though likely would be somewhat irregular given its small size)
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Possibly, though I always thought it weird that a potato shaped planet the size of Mars (Which cannot physically exist.. by the way) would have a perfectly spherical moon (Which can exist, though likely would be somewhat irregular given its small size)
Maybe Kessel looks like a peanut because the Spice Spiders messed up the gravity by making so much spice or something like that.
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Maybe you could say that when it was still molten, it was a lot closer to the Maw, and so formed in a disorted shape and rotates on it's axis incredibly slowly for a planet of it's size?
The moon could have been created later by impact matter.
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Maybe you could say that when it was still molten, it was a lot closer to the Maw, and so formed in a disorted shape and rotates on it's axis incredibly slowly for a planet of it's size?
:yes:
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Further more thanks to the anisotropic gravity field that held its birth, its composition is anisotropic too - so in other words its distribution of mass is uneven.