[themodman101]

I heard about this site on the total war forums, and heard that somone might need my particular talent..











Keep in mind this required a little photoshoping as well.







Any comments and suggestions would be greatly appriciated

[shiv]

Those are perfect! Would you like to join Earth Defense mod? - linkey

[Droid803]

These look EPIC!

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Wow. Just... The only little issue I can think of is the hard edge on your atmospheres; personally, I prefer them to be slightly more blurry. What programs do you use?

[Rhymes]

Lemme make this really simple:

 

You, sir, are awesome.

[themodman101]

Haha, thanks for the kind words.

@Shiv
Looking at the link now..

[tinfoil]

Lemme make this really simple:

 

You, sir, are awesome.

Damn, those are nice!

[shiv]

themodman101, you're on the team Welcome!

[themodman101]

Thanks tin foil

The programs i used are

TTG
3DSMAX 9
Photoshop CS3

I thin that's it.

[Herra Tohtori]

I heard about this site on the total war forums, and heard that somone might need my particular talent..











Keep in mind this required a little photoshoping as well.







Any comments and suggestions would be greatly appriciated

The planets and suns look great, awesome even, but the background starfields seem to be of lower resolution and thus a bit blurry compared to the planets - don't know if it's an intentional "depth of field" effect or just limitations of background source imagery. Also, theres's a bit too much stars on the background for my personal tastes but that's just me.

Protip:

Code: [Select]

[lvlshot]http://image.url[/lvlshot]

...is a lot easier to use than the tags you used (and creates linkable images even). ;)

[themodman101]

Thanks for the tip

Yeah i have very limited source imagery, do you guys have any suggestions??

[Hellstryker]

You didn't make those planets. Unless of course you're this guy: http://hoevelkamp.deviantart.com/ 

[Herra Tohtori]

->Hellstryker: Innocent until proven guilty I say... Though that is kinda suspicious, I'm gonna ignore it for now and concentrate on sharing the knowledge.

Basic starfields aren't difficult to make... nebulas and details like milky way (denser but weaker stars basically) take some time to get looking real...

Grayscale noise level 0.20 -> Brightness/Contrast ~ 60/110 creates a pretty good, very basic starfield. However it's important to have your monitor correctly calibrated because otherwise there's going to be contrast/brightness issues and people are going to say that there's too many or too little stars and yadda yadda. The contrast and brightness can be adjusted to change the density of the starfield and the strength of it.

Then you can do things to it with layer modes and gaussian blur [values 1.5 - 2 gaussian blur tend to look good IMO] and colouration to put in some weakly red, blue, yellow and orange hue to the brightest stars.

This is a good sample of this technique, however it is optimized for use as FS2 skybox background, not an art background especially. Click to enlarge to epic proportions (2048^2).

[themodman101]

Thanks for the tips herra tohtori.

@Hellstryker:

I don't see anythin in his gallery that looks like my stuff. I'll admit, he's WAY better then I am. Practice makes perfect i guess.

[Hellstryker]

http://hoevelkamp.deviantart.com/art/DA-Birthday-Stock-Planets-93986061 The middle one reminded me of the third and fourth images you posted, although looking at it now I don't think it's the same planet.

The first picture reminded me of this one: http://hoevelkamp.deviantart.com/art/an-alien-planet-free-source-62504836

That's really, really weird. They aren't the same planets, but they're amazingly similar 

[themodman101]

Yeah, they are pretty similer. Kinda wierd actually 

I guess i'll have to practice more, so i can get that good...

[Rodo]

wow those are great! my planets look like kids work compared to this :O

[themodman101]

wow those are great! my planets look like kids work compared to this :O

Thanks for your kind words, and i wish you the best of luck with your work. if you want any help i'm availible 



 Direct link:  http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1308/planetvulcanvb4.jpg

[Dilmah G]

Total Awesomeness, however I concur, tone the number of stars down a bit, but either way it looks awesome

[Jadehawk]

I'd love it if you gave us a "here's how I do my planets" type of thread I do pretty good, but I'd love to do better and knowing how others do theirs really helps!