[Ace]

A few planet models I made that use a 2048x2048 texture plus a bump map. The gas giants also have a diffuse effect to get the atmosphere, though I haven't figured out a good way of making a glow effect that would easily translate over to a game engine.

The textures are hand-painted with some elements from NASA photographs. (mainly used in the bump maps for the craters as well as for the overall color palette of each planet)

[Lightspeed]

Ho hum.

not bad

[karajorma]

They're not bad at all ace but they are a little too samey for my liking. They need a few more features (at least on the rocky ones).

[delta_7890]

They need more...hrm...depth?  Right now they all just look like really pretty balls.

[JarC]

yeah, right planets with an average diameter between 15000-45000Km and you want depth? you're lucky to catch the sun casting a shadow on mountain ridges on a clear day...

[Lightspeed]

Now get them in-game

[Fineus]

I love them, a really good start. If you can start pulling off multi-environment planets they should look even better (a grey moon is fine, but a forest planet with oceans rolling through the edges and a desert around the equator is so much more interesting).

[USS Alexander]

nice work there, try giving some of them just a bit more bump for more realism as it needs more bump cause they look to smooth and a little atmosphere, add a bit more  color tones to it to create some depth, like a darker brown for the few shadows that you can see barely or for the holes in the planet., just use a gradient and play with the color's until you like what you see:)

[TopAce]

They look quite good. I tried using planet models a few months ago, and it became clear I would prefer using standard 2D images instead.

[kasperl]

Those look very nice, can FSCZ use them when they are done?

Perhaps you should add some detail here and there, a little more complicated clouds on the gas giants, and some more prominent features on the moons, like flattened area's, hightened stuff, different shades of grey, etc.

[Tolwyn]

Originally posted by kasperl
Those look very nice, can FSCZ use them when they are done?

Perhaps you should add some detail here and there, a little more complicated clouds on the gas giants, and some more prominent features on the moons, like flattened area's, hightened stuff, different shades of grey, etc.

I fully agree... add a few detailes to the armosphere, that should do it