| TBH-1138 |
I haven't gotten clouds or planet rendering done yet, so here's a preview of the default surface.
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| Posted: April 30, 2013 10:47 pm | ||||||||
Skybase
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That's verryy nice!
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| Posted: April 30, 2013 11:34 pm | ||||||||
Betis
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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. |
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| Posted: May 1, 2013 5:54 am | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
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. |
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| Posted: May 1, 2013 4:24 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
Mountains.
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| Posted: May 2, 2013 1:03 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
Now it renders the planet. There are clouds, but I've disabled them for this image.
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| Posted: May 2, 2013 3:52 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
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.
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| Posted: May 2, 2013 10:19 pm | ||||||||
Indigo Ray
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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! |
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| Posted: May 3, 2013 9:42 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
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.
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| Posted: May 4, 2013 8:43 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
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.
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| Posted: May 4, 2013 11:20 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
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.
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| Posted: May 5, 2013 1:41 am | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
Lava planet made with glowing water.
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| Posted: May 5, 2013 4:44 am | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
City lights. Should I add anything else or release as-is?
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| Posted: May 5, 2013 6:12 pm | ||||||||
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Betis
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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!  Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF All my base are belong to you. |
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| Posted: May 5, 2013 8:02 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
I see what you mean.
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.
That's awesome. The only reason I'm not using that is because I can't generate specular highlights with it. |
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| Posted: May 7, 2013 6:15 pm | ||||||||
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Betis
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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. |
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| Posted: May 7, 2013 6:23 pm | ||||||||
CorvusCroax
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Those are great looking planets TBH-1138. You should totally release it!
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| Posted: May 8, 2013 4:16 am | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
Nope. I tried everything I could think of and nothing worked.
It's a subtle effect, but it definitely enhances realism. It all looks like solid rock without specular.
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. |
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| Posted: May 8, 2013 9:33 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
Made some lighting and atmosphere improvements.
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| Posted: May 11, 2013 3:54 pm | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
I think I'll call this done. Here's a planet from the randomizer.
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| Posted: May 11, 2013 8:47 pm | ||||||||
| ddaydreams |
Cool! I hope you left the glowing water feature in there. I liked that.
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| Posted: May 12, 2013 11:21 am | ||||||||
| TBH-1138 |
It's still in there.
One of the presets uses it for lava, and another (above) uses it for some kind of bioluminescence in the water. |
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| Posted: May 12, 2013 8:04 pm | ||||||||
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