[Ryx]

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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.

[Stargazer_2098]

Its good to see another man from Scandinavia here!

Anyway:  great work! I like it!



Stargazer.

[Carl]

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

[Star Dragon]

SWEET!

[Ryx]

Here the link to the Earth textures. It's the big 10k map, I used. A bit overkill probably, but it looks pretty good up close.

And the planet tutorial @ scifi-meshes.com

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.

[Black_Dragon]

Nice planet  

[Redfang]

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

[Ryx]

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

thx

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

[Riven]

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

[Stealth]

very very very nice man!  good job!

[Ryx]

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.

[Nico]

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.