Quote Originally Posted by jfrazierjr View Post
Post what your trying for the polar regions so we can see what you are doing.

As for the deserts, a bit to bright and needs some more color variation within the area.

Joe
Totally agree about the desert. I'm going to go for a "dirtier" look.

As far as the polar regions go, I guess I don't really know exactly what I have in mind, but here is the only attempt I've made so far (It's just some noise with a light blue/white gradient map and a Gaussian blur):

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My own criticisms of it are that the blur just doesn't look realistic at all, especially going immediately to green. The effect looks more like cloud cover. I also think they come too far north and south. They need to be smaller areas, but not by much.