Rooky Animator Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Does anybody know how to model a planet? I've tried making a giant sphere, than place a material on it, but instead of a planet, it looks like a giant marble! So, I would like some assistance please! Thanks, Rooky Animator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric2575 Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 First off, there are plenty of posts about planets and the making of them. Second, what exactly makes you say it looks like a marble? Lighting and environment play a huge factor in making a planet look real. Post your marble render. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Also scaling your material could help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_black_mage Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 textures!!!! thats what you need, theres a whole site with textures for every planet for free!!!!! i used it for a school project last year! Planet textures you can apply them as a projection map material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooky Animator Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Thank You Ultimate Mage! I used these maps and they sure do look realistic! Now how do I make my own planet? Maybe my materials are too simple and that's why it looks so weird? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I thought I would whip up some planets to help you Two spheres off the CD primitives with easy materials. I used materials so I could animate them tryplanet.mov I animated the materials a little too much but then this was a quicky project tryplanet.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Darksim!!!!! The coolest planet materials are in the darksim materials!! They don't take all that much longer to render either, unless your doing a huge project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_black_mage Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Thank You Ultimate Mage! I used these maps and they sure do look realistic! Now how do I make my own planet? Maybe my materials are too simple and that's why it looks so weird? two ways... 1. edit the images of the planets 2. use turbulence materials, things like turbulence in turbulence in turbulence in gradient. if you know what i mean.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMZ_TimeLord Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Some resources from the board ... (just searching for earth... several pages in) Sol System High Resolution Earth project Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooky Animator Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Thanks you guys for all your help! All these ideas, links and downloads are really helping me a lot. I can't wait until I'm able to help other people with their problems and I'll be the expert, but that's going to be for a long time. Well, thanks again guys! Rooky Animator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpappas Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 If you have Photoshop, an easy and fun way to generate planet textures is with Flaming Pear's "Lunar Cell" plugin, only $20. The default setting makes a picture of a planet, but change the output to Image Map and it generates Spherical Maps for use in A:M, including color, bump and cloud mask maps. -Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_black_mage Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Thanks you guys for all your help! All these ideas, links and downloads are really helping me a lot. I can't wait until I'm able to help other people with their problems and I'll be the expert, but that's going to be for a long time. Well, thanks again guys! Rooky Animator yeah dude its totally our thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatso Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 You don't have to know what you're doing to post advice; I'm the poster child for that. Coupla things: 1. The atmosphere doesn't do much for the model. Real planets' atmospheres' dimensions are to their planets as an eggshell is to an egg. Way thin. Ditch the atmosphere and maybe add just a little bit of glow around the planet. 2. Lighting is extremely important. If you have the planet lit at an angle by some kind of sun, the transition from light to dark (or day to night, if you want to think of it that way) on the planet is very sharp. (No air in space so no scattering.) You can play with this by adjusting the falloff control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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