Planets

[Rich O Brien]

Messing with making planets while recovering from manflu...

[liam887]

@rich o brien said:

Messing with making planets while recovering from manflu...

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Nice, what's the workflow?

[Rich O Brien]

Simple UV spheres and spherical mapping.

Grabbed some NASA mars maps and used Thea layering to mix them with a lunar map.

Was experimenting in Thea Material Lab to see how bitmaps mixed.

Wish they used node type material creation but when you get creative you get very interesting outputs.

Only thing was the render times were long! Very.

[Bryan K]

Very cool!

[Bob James]

@rich o brien said:

Wish they used node type material creation.

Why? The "blizzard" of nodes and connections required are bewildering

[Mike Amos]

Interesting stuff, made with what process?

[Rich O Brien]

@bob james said:

@rich o brien said:

Wish they used node type material creation.

Why? The "blizzard" of nodes and connections required are bewildering

I use Blender and Substance so nodes are 2nd nature to me.

I find Thea's nested panels with numeric input harder to follow.

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

so nodes are 2nd nature to me.

You are so lucky to be genetically modified for that!
For some other that is an ordeal calvery!