Hey... I made a planet!

[Darth_Gimp]

Here are some of the space things I've done from scratch in Gimp. A couple include a Star Wars model rendered in Blender though... LINK.

[Badger]

Very nice Aidy and Darth... ya'lls make mine look pale and weak in comparison... Guess its back to the practicing board for me

[Redrobes]

This ought to be in the reference section I guess but... This :-

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

is the popular "Astro Image of the Day" which is a large selection of the best of NASA's images including lots of planets, nebula etc. All NASA pics (without peoples faces) are deemed free to use.

A few matted clips of these can make some 'stellar' space scenes.

Edit -- Actually, todays (Mar 18 200 is a bit of a doozy !

[Darth_Gimp]

Very nice Aidy and Darth... ya'lls make mine look pale and weak in comparison... Guess its back to the practicing board for me

Please don't feel that way. I've been doing space scenes for a while now. Some tuts you might enjoy are over on:

http://www.solarvoyager.com/tutorials.asp

and

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/t..._a_planet.html

[Badger]

Thanks for the advice and the links, I'll definitely be checking those out

[jabascus]

Here are some of the space things I've done from scratch in Gimp. A couple include a Star Wars model rendered in Blender though... LINK.

I'm developing a LARP and was wondering what he chances are that I can use that picture in the main picture for the webpage? Also, which programs did use to make it?

[someguy]

Here are some of the space things I've done from scratch in Gimp. A couple include a Star Wars model rendered in Blender though... LINK.

How easy is blender to use? And where can i get it?

[Steel General]

How easy is blender to use? And where can i get it?

Not sure how easy it is to use, having never used it myself but here's the URL to the homepage; http://www.blender.org/

[Redrobes]

Its powerful but I could not get the hang of the UI. I should spend more time with it tho. Torq said he used it a bit so maybe he can post a first time blender beginners guide tut for us noobs ? How do you create a sphere planet, texture it with a fractal terrains type image, render it with some basic lighting and then save the render result ? When I tried it - ok years ago.... - it was all custom key strokes and I lost the will to live. I hope its got more user friendly since then.

[ravells]

Wings 3d is also free and I found much easier to use, but not as much functionality as blender though (I found the UI on blender really hard to get to grips with).