Planet-building for 3D-art
Start here:
http://www.syacartoonist.com/comic/how- ... easy-steps
Okay, you've done that? Great! Now, lighten the ocean colour - it doesn't have to be an exact match for Earth blue, but it should be close enough to show this world isn't too alien to not support life.
Add a cloud-cover layer, and wrap that image onto a sphere primitive.
Bingo! One alien planet, ready to have a Fencraft orbit it!
(For close-up shots, don't add a cloud-cover layer to the map - put it on a second sphere primitive slightly larger than the one you put the map on, and make that transparent except where the clouds are. The two-level effect adds verisimilitude.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Start here:
http://www.syacartoonist.com/comic/how- ... easy-steps
Okay, you've done that? Great! Now, lighten the ocean colour - it doesn't have to be an exact match for Earth blue, but it should be close enough to show this world isn't too alien to not support life.
Add a cloud-cover layer, and wrap that image onto a sphere primitive.
Bingo! One alien planet, ready to have a Fencraft orbit it!
(For close-up shots, don't add a cloud-cover layer to the map - put it on a second sphere primitive slightly larger than the one you put the map on, and make that transparent except where the clouds are. The two-level effect adds verisimilitude.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012