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.
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.
Very nice Aidy and Darth... ya'lls make mine look pale and weak in comparison... Guess its back to the practicing board for me
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 !
Last edited by Redrobes; 03-18-2008 at 04:09 PM.
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
Thanks for the advice and the links, I'll definitely be checking those out
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/
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
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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.
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).