[FreeSpaceFreak]

Sorry, must have slipped my mind.

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[blowfish]

The lava cracks look a little bit too even in width, but nice work otherwise

[ShadowGorrath]

Only 2 things are needed until it's perfect:

1. Have the part around the lava more orange/brown/burned.
2. The lava cracks should end in small lines, not the wide ones like now.

If I'm explaining it wrong, I might try to show a preview of what I'm talking about 

[TopAce]

So, my second attempt. A slime-covered planet:



Two questions:

a) This planet sort of looks unnatural to me. Any ideas how I could make it look like more realistic?
b) I want to do some craters, but the crater-creator Filter did not do what I wanted it to. Any tips on how to make craters?

[Topgun]

do you know about anti aliasing?

[TopAce]

I know the term, but I don't know what it's good for.

[Topgun]

aliasing is the staircase effect you're getting. how do you make the planets? by making a round selection or by mapping to sphere?

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Two things added, is it perfect now?

@TopAce: did you go through the tutorial (link in the very first post of this thread)? It's really good for getting the hang of basic planet-making.

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[blowfish]

THe cracks still look a little too even.  Individual cracks should have considerable variation in width.  Looks pretty done otherwise though

[ShadowGorrath]

Well in my opinion it's... it's... perfect! 

When can I/we get the full sized version?

[TopAce]

...@TopAce: did you go through the tutorial (link in the very first post of this thread)? It's really good for getting the hang of basic planet-making...

Yes, but that doesn't tell me how to create the sort of thing I need. More precisely, craters. GIMP's crater-creator filter is adequate for making the general surface, but I would like to place some visible, deep craters.

As to feedback your planet: The lava part looks decent enough. I wouldn't say "perfect," because then I would run out of adjectives if you show something better. But I suggest spending some time on the grassy part. Add some rivers or lakes, or mountains.

[Topgun]

Two things added, is it perfect now?

@TopAce: did you go through the tutorial (link in the very first post of this thread)? It's really good for getting the hang of basic planet-making.

add some deserts and shrink the glow on the cracks.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Allright, here it is. All planets in this post, the damaged one and a slightly improved version of VPrime, all in 2048 x 2048 .png format - about 14MB compressed, and about 14MB uncompressed? Is that me or is it 7-zip?

Anyway, a picture of the final version and the VPrime:



And blowfish, this is what I used for the lava. Feel free to make something yourself (preferably 3000 x 3000 resolution), I'll slap it on the planet and see what it looks like.



EDIT: This is obsolete. ASW now has a new, better, and more real Homeworld.

[blowfish]

Well, the lava thing is minor.  Its a very good planet IMO

[ShadowGorrath]

Yey. Thanks.

[watsisname]

Got a new planet finished, something of an earthlike world.  This is my most complex work to date.  Thanks to Aardwolf for explaining making the cloudshadows.





Edit:  For those interested, the surface texture for this was made from a photo of... very old plaster.  All work done in The GIMP. 

[Retsof]

Wow that's good.

[Aardwolf]

Here's a planet showing mostly the dark side. I rendered a sphere with a photo I took this afternoon as the texture, and then worked on it a tiny bit in GIMP.



Here's another planet, this one having a mix of desert and forest/jungle, and showing more of the day-lit side.



I was trying to make something Venus-like, but it didn't turn out quite as I had hoped.

[Topgun]

I like that last one, but it's a little too fuzzy IMO.

[ShadowGorrath]

Thos are very good. I liked the first one the most though, Aardwolf.