Planet Painting Is My One True Love
Salashin
Posts: 14
Yes after a very long hiatus I am finally back and have taken up the brush... erm mouse... to try and start painting planets again. I still see a lack of good spacey stuff out there for people like me who just like to fly around in our digital ships and look at pretty alien worlds. So I am embarking on a whole new project and starting from scratch. I've just started again so bear with me. Here I have a small fast non-bumped non-displaced non-lit non-anything (lol) sample of what I have in mind. Very vanilla at the moment. I plan to branch out to more alien concepts once I have the basic style fleshed out. Even trying to add things like farmland and techno city things if you zoom in. Let me know what kinds of stuff you'd like to see and I will see if I can do it. Once I have the tools under my ken again, I want to make comets and asteroids too and continue my exploration of how to make decent Gas giants as well. Anyone who has seen my original Enviro Kit will know what I was aiming for but I want to do so much more with it.
Anyways, hello all, sorry I've been gone for so long. Hope everyone is well.
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the only thing I think you should add is higher res images, these are really excellent!
This has nothing to do with regular 3D art, but If you like flying around in space... Look up Space Engine... http://en.spaceengine.org it's a Russian site, but it checks out okay with my antivirus software and McAfee gives it a green light.
You can explore our solar system (there is a special hi Rez map set available for our system), our galaxy and many other galaxies... You can fly through space and travel to distant worlds and galaxies... you can even land on worlds and explore them. The stars are based on real data, the planets are conjectural, but it is fun to explore, looking for earth-like worlds... So far I've only found one earth-like world, it was barren and pretty cold, but capable of life... I've found many water worlds, some with algaes... Some worlds are similar and the gas giants are sometimes boring and some planets with atmospheres that have hurricanes sometime have a weird texture glitch... But they are working on improving this program, it has a pretty decent size community and for those into it, there are even texture sets for Star Trek and Star Wars worlds.
I screen captured this a while ago... I have a few hundred images from distant worlds.
I suck, I feel like I'm hijacking this thread with my pictures, but maybe they are good for ideas... Also you should check out Filter Forge, it has some great planet texture filters... Currently there is an 80% off sale ending in five days. Genetica also has some nice planet filters and you can render them using the free Texture Viewer version.
Okay, more space pix...
Salashin, nice work! I have always wanted to do something like this myself, but without a believable space void to put things in it seemed kinda pointless to me.
Mcgyver, thanks for the HU and the link, looks pretty sweet! I am an aspiring pilot, have 245 hrs yoke time and i also do addons for games, so as such i am big into flight simulators and have always wanted a truly realistic space simulator. I tried Orbiter for awhile and the interest faded, so looking at checking out this one.
Long time no see!
If you'd like some ideas.... I would love to have a Pern planet from the Dragonriders series by Anne McCaffrey..
http://www.nexusdragons.com/worlds/pern.php
If I ever get my noise shader thing done, it has some great opportunities for planet building... (although, admittedly, I've had a harder time making compelling terrestrial worlds).
http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/Perlin-Planet-test-580099574
Hiya Sal! Long time no see! You have fun ideas again ^.^ *hugs*
Some lovely works, guys'n'gals! Keep it up!
@salashin: Awesome! I still have your freebie Enviro Kit LE in my runtime, it is my goto product for any kind of space backgrounds and planets. Love your work!