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TBH-1138
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I haven't gotten clouds or planet rendering done yet, so here's a preview of the default surface.
Posted: April 30, 2013 10:47 pm   Details E-Mail
Skybase
2D/3D Generalist

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That's verryy nice! smile:D
Posted: April 30, 2013 11:34 pm   Details E-Mail
Betis
The Blacksmith

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don't forget to adjust colors/snow based on elevation! looks awesome!
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base are belong to you.
Posted: May 1, 2013 5:54 am   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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don't forget to adjust colors/snow based on elevation!

I'd do that, but I'd have to add mountain ranges first. As-is, this kind of noise generates mountains that look like someone splattered white paint on the terrain.
Posted: May 1, 2013 4:24 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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Filters: 53
Mountains.
Posted: May 2, 2013 1:03 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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Filters: 53
Now it renders the planet. There are clouds, but I've disabled them for this image.
Posted: May 2, 2013 3:52 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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Here it is with clouds. I'm not quite happy with them yet. The smaller details are too fibrous, but I'm not quite sure how to fix it.
Posted: May 2, 2013 10:19 pm   Details E-Mail
Indigo Ray
Adam

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Glad Earth doesn't have all those giant craters!

Have you tried using my vortex filter to help with the clouds?
Cover the planet in hurricanes! smile:D
Posted: May 3, 2013 9:42 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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I actually was planning on using that for something, but the vortices just don't really look natural. It's either concentric circles or "walls" between each vortex. Another noise distortion might fix that.
Posted: May 4, 2013 8:43 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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More noise distortion didn't quite break up the artifacts. I'm thinking of adding city lights or possibly glowing water for lava planets and such.
Posted: May 4, 2013 11:20 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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Speaking of glowing water, here it is. This will be disabled by default. Currently the glow is rendered over the planet; clouds don't block it.
Posted: May 5, 2013 1:41 am   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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Lava planet made with glowing water.

Posted: May 5, 2013 4:44 am   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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City lights. Should I add anything else or release as-is?
Posted: May 5, 2013 6:12 pm   Details E-Mail
Betis
The Blacksmith

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I would refine the clouds before submission, and probably work on the lighting too.

Use some real-references


Notice the heavy blue cast from the atmosphere, the planets true colors are scattered and absorbed and replaced with the atmospheric glow. Also the water and shadows don't get very dark.

Also you might want some real lighting phases in there (I have a filter just for that)
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8845.html

But this is all constructive criticism, I think it's coming along nicely! smile:)
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base are belong to you.
Posted: May 5, 2013 8:02 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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Notice the heavy blue cast from the atmosphere, the planets true colors are scattered and absorbed and replaced with the atmospheric glow.

I see what you mean.

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Also the water and shadows don't get very dark.

In this picture, the light is coming from behind the camera. There are no shadows in that kind of lighting.


As you can see here, or by going outside at night, the dark side of a planet is pitch black.

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Also you might want some real lighting phases in there (I have a filter just for that)
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8845.html

That's awesome. The only reason I'm not using that is because I can't generate specular highlights with it.
Posted: May 7, 2013 6:15 pm   Details E-Mail
Betis
The Blacksmith

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you might be able to get specular highlights by messing with the curve... I'm not sure I haven't tried it for that. but also notice that the photographs hardly appear to have any specular anyway
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base are belong to you.
Posted: May 7, 2013 6:23 pm   Details E-Mail
CorvusCroax
CorvusCroax

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Those are great looking planets TBH-1138. You should totally release it!
Posted: May 8, 2013 4:16 am   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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you might be able to get specular highlights by messing with the curve... I'm not sure I haven't tried it for that.

Nope. I tried everything I could think of and nothing worked.

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but also notice that the photographs hardly appear to have any specular anyway

It's a subtle effect, but it definitely enhances realism. It all looks like solid rock without specular.

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Those are great looking planets TBH-1138. You should totally release it!

I would, but the clouds still need some work and I'm rendering some 4k planetary noise from an edited version of ThreeDee's snippet. It's been rendering for ~1.5 days so far.
Posted: May 8, 2013 9:33 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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Filters: 53
Made some lighting and atmosphere improvements.
Posted: May 11, 2013 3:54 pm   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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I think I'll call this done. Here's a planet from the randomizer.
Posted: May 11, 2013 8:47 pm   Details E-Mail
ddaydreams
Frank Hawkins
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Cool! I hope you left the glowing water feature in there. I liked that.
Posted: May 12, 2013 11:21 am   Details E-Mail
TBH-1138
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It's still in there. smile:) One of the presets uses it for lava, and another (above) uses it for some kind of bioluminescence in the water.
Posted: May 12, 2013 8:04 pm   Details E-Mail

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