This thread is teh awsome...
Texturing the Zephyrus was getting repetitive and kinda boring, so I thought I'd play around with planets for a while.
I tried Terragen 2 for a bit (3-4 days), but I got lost -it was hard to make it do
exactly what I wanted it to do. It had a tendency of splattering mountains all over the place, even when I blended its shaders. So I went back to my trusty MAX 7 and, as an act of defiance, slapped this baby together in...oh, an afternoon more or less.
I'm thinking of toning down the brightness on the top right part. It's a bit 'blinding'
The uploaded image is 800x800. If anybody wants it, I can provide renders up to 2048^2.
Clouds: Thank you NASA! (BlueMarble)