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Offline Sandwich

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on: December 27, 2002, 07:05:41 am


Time to render from scratch (aside from creating the gas giant preset): ~5 minutes.

The LunarCell preset if free for anyone to use, modify, play around with, whatever. I don't require credits, but if you feel like it, I don't have any problem with that. :p

Note: The LunarCell preset is only for the Gas Giant, not the space scene in the BG - that method's a secret. ;7
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Reply #1 on: December 27, 2002, 07:11:54 am
Hmm, so you have a secret method for background creation, eh? :D

Nice work on the planet - even if it could use some tweaking and better lighting it makes for a nice texture.
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Reply #2 on: December 27, 2002, 01:12:56 pm
I've been playing arround with Lunarcell gasgiants for some time this one is aiming for a more Uranus look:


Too bad I can't find a good simple program for making planetary rings.
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Reply #3 on: December 27, 2002, 01:25:18 pm
* refrains from posting really bad joke *

Nice work on those planets, though, Ace.
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Reply #4 on: December 27, 2002, 01:41:58 pm

First shot at rings, of course they'll look better as time goes on...
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Reply #5 on: December 27, 2002, 02:00:26 pm
DUDE!!! How'd you do the rings? They're awesome!
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Reply #6 on: December 27, 2002, 02:03:38 pm
*hits right-click , save-picture-as*
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Reply #7 on: December 27, 2002, 02:04:30 pm
:lol:
well done Ace, now everybody's jealous :D
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Reply #8 on: December 27, 2002, 02:26:27 pm
I know Ace uses Max to touch up his lunarcell stuff ... other than that not got a scoobie how he does it..

*kicks PS and Lunarcell plugin*

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Reply #9 on: December 27, 2002, 02:46:17 pm
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Originally posted by Sheepy
I know Ace uses Max to touch up his lunarcell stuff ... other than that not got a scoobie how he does it..

*kicks PS and Lunarcell plugin*

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mmh, I guess the same way I used to do ( don't use lunarcell at all now ):
lunarcel can make planets ( so a 2D circle), but can also export as a rectangular map meant for spherical UV mapping. with Max render, there's no comparison.
for the ring, I'd do it with a bmp and an opacity map ( that said, last time I did one, I used a radial procedural map, sue me :p )
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Reply #10 on: December 27, 2002, 03:21:48 pm
I use Lunarcell to make several high-res map layers for a sphere in MAX, then I use volumetrics for the atmosphere and lighting.

The ring image is all Lunarcell with post-production effects such as the ring in PSP.

It's not in MAX because I don't have a working copy since XP hates 3dsMax4 and umm... acquiring Max5 has been... problematical... umm *cough*
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Reply #11 on: December 27, 2002, 06:40:24 pm
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I use Lunarcell to make several high-res map layers for a sphere in MAX, then I use volumetrics for the atmosphere and lighting.

The ring image is all Lunarcell with post-production effects such as the ring in PSP.

It's not in MAX because I don't have a working copy since XP hates 3dsMax4 and umm... acquiring Max5 has been... problematical... umm *cough*


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Reply #12 on: December 28, 2002, 06:13:25 am
Was bored:



I'll do up a planetary ring in a few minutes...... Ace, beware! :p :lol:
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Reply #13 on: December 28, 2002, 06:52:09 am
Here we go:

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Reply #14 on: December 28, 2002, 08:30:10 am
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Here we go:



"geek mode on" such a ring couldn't exists, it's too close to the planet and would be attracted by its gravity "geek mode off"
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Reply #15 on: December 28, 2002, 03:13:35 pm
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Please don't hurt me :shaking:


*hurts Venom*


I wasn't going for scientific accuracy, it was just a first try at forging Rings of Power...errr, wrong thread. :p
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #16 on: December 28, 2002, 03:43:07 pm
Heres my latest few (all for NW) (both pure PS, not got that fancy Max stuff to do render work in :D)





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Reply #17 on: December 28, 2002, 06:10:45 pm
Coincidentaly I just started a ringed planet last night.

all lightwave except for some photoshop for adjustment and the ring texture. everything, 100% original.

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Reply #18 on: December 28, 2002, 07:36:39 pm
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Now this, this really impresses me. :nod: Reminds me of some earlier work I did, in fact... but this is even better. :)

By the way, Draco - those rings are superb! I like yours too, Ace. ;)
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Reply #19 on: December 28, 2002, 08:05:08 pm
thanks!
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