[Knight Templar]

Planet made or found. I wanted to make something in photoshop but I can't find the right planet.

I need a planet that kinda gives off the "dead" feeling. I was thinking Of a black "dead" planet with pits of lava and a little red kinda, but mostly dead looking. Of course this shot is from orbit

Note that I don't need anything really big, just enough to get the right detail.

Go!

[Setekh]

I've never been able to quite to do the 'pits of lava' thing convincingly... I remember trying a long time ago and instead ending up with this...

[Stryke 9]

I think it's mostly cracks that look good, not pits.


I'd upload one I have on stock, but I'd need some kinda motivation, and it's a bit... not all that great, itself.. Maybe in a bit.

[Anaz]

steak p1mping his renders...

[Knight Templar]

Actually the Array is the first place I went

It's almost what I want, except waay too bright/slash foggy

oh, and for what I'm doing, I need the horizon of the planet.

[Anaz]

Why don't you look at the img for Za'ha'dum from TBP? It looks very "dead", altho it doesn't have all of the fiddly lava bits...

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Actually the Array is the first place I went

It's almost what I want, except waay too bright/slash foggy

oh, and for what I'm doing, I need the horizon of the planet.

Ahhh, I see... yeah, I myself never succeeded in doing the dead planet thing. Z'ha'dum is pretty good suggestion, though.

[Knight Templar]

The what now?


*Doesn't know B5*


can I get a link?

[Stryke 9]

It wantses something like this, yeeesss?



Pick a color. You want black, gray/rocky, or what? I can clean up thsoe procedural glows so they don't go all the way back...

[Knight Templar]

hey thats not far off actually. Lots of glowy lava, if it could be toned down a little bit, then all I need is a dull starfield

[Stryke 9]

An zen you chop and you slice and you hack like so, and VOILA! Un Planet Flambeaux!

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
The what now?


*Doesn't know B5*


can I get a link?

Z'Ha'Dum, the homeworld of the Shadows, and also the First One, Lorien. You go there, you die, that's the tourism slogan.

[Knight Templar]

Way ahead o' yeah.. except I am a noob, how can I make a good starfield?

[Stryke 9]

Glitterato or a plugin. Plugin quality and availablity depends on program. The one I got, see, good for animations, since it doesn't turn with the camera, gives a sense of movement, but looks like crap in stills.

[Setekh]

I usually make a random noise field and bring down the brightness.

[Knight Templar]

wow that would have been a helluv easier.. shoulda thunk it.. will anywho.. gimme a sec

[Stryke 9]

Huh. Never even thanking me for going and generating all those texture, mapping it on a planet, rendering it, compressing it, uploading it... *sigh*

[Knight Templar]

oo your planet turned out very nicely stryke.
Danke shan

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
wow that would have been a helluv easier.. shoulda thunk it.. will anywho.. gimme a sec

That's okay, it took me months to realise I could make a decent 2D starfield so simply.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Setekh


That's okay, it took me months to realise I could make a decent 2D starfield so simply.

one can make lightnings that way too