Hey... I made a planet!

[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).

[someguy]

I know its not much, just a basic skin stretched around a ball and a bit of a haze added around the edge.

But hay It Tattooine!

[bryguy]

almost tatooine, but not quite



i should know, im like one of the biggest star wars geeks in a... um.... 2 foot radius



but yea, needs some slight brown, a little brighter color, and those weird circular things towards the end to disappear, and you have tatooine



I actually got really interested in making planets a while back, and so I amassed a lot of different tutlets that I found (although the 2 posted earlier make the ones I found look like junk ) and I also found some planet render scripts.

http://home.tele2.fr/auroreblender/gimp/planet_en.html

http://registry.gimp.org/node/8172

http://registry.gimp.org/node/9489

http://sglider12.blogspot.com/2008/0...n-in-gimp.html (used this link+ original ps tutorial+ some of my own techniques to create my avatar)

http://www.bartendavid.be/doc/howto/...olevortex.html

http://www.hardwareforums.com/planets-gimp-18707/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKu_...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-kOvj11H8

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/...2-20283-1.html

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/s...-tutorial.html

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/...al-5221-1.html

and also maybe try finding a downloadable pdf tutorial by blend_roid (blend roid, blendroid, dont know exactly how to spell it) which i found helpful

sorry that most of these are for GIMP, but others are for PS


edit: google 'blendroid tutorials', and found the one i was talking about, http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=962601 and/or http://hellswinter.wdfiles.com/local...t_Tutorial.pdf

[Badger]

or Arakus <sp?> ... Dune in other words.

[Steel General]

or Arakus <sp?> ... Dune in other words.

OK I'll play "Spelling Police" here

... I beleive its Arrakis

[bryguy]

OK I'll play "Spelling Police" here

... I beleive its Arrakis

hmm.... i dont have a clue about what either of those are




oh well, im trying to use some of the tutorials from a link posted earlier to make a good planet scene, but for my big planet (the moon was easy, now comes the hard part ) im making without a tutorial, and using tricks ive learned over the ages (ages, months, whateva ) and so far its turning out prettty good


Ill post a picture when Im done

[Badger]

Frank Herbert's ""Dune"" series Bryguy ..... that is the name of the desert planet where Spice comes from... Arrakis or ...also known as Dune.

[bryguy]

Frank Herbert's ""Dune"" series Bryguy ..... that is the name of the desert planet where Spice comes from... Arrakis or ...also known as Dune.

huh, never heard of it