Interactive planet-creation tutorial

[aszazeroth]

Sorry about the lack of pictures... the off-site hosting server is defunct and needs to be repaired... Trying to fast track the PDF document instead.

Here is a preview of what I have got sofar

[edit] attaching the first pages too [/edit]

[edit to edit] had to convert the screenshots to jpg... was not allowed to upload large .bmp:s =) [/edit to edit]

[aszazeroth]

some more pages

[aszazeroth]

... next one

[aszazeroth]

"Never give up, Never surrender"

[aszazeroth]

"when it rains it pours..."

More stuff in the pipeline... to bad my SVN Blender is acting up on me. Gotta fix that asap

[captainkirk]

Amazing results. You have to release a pdf tutorial on this.

[vissroid]

very nice indeed. I should have done my tut a couple years ago. now that I've prob' forgotten most of it. since it was a couple years ago. lol but our styles are quite different and yet get the job done as well.

my style very much consisted of simply painting and textures in photoshop and using 3ds max as well to make these.

[aszazeroth]

Hey, vissroid, that is a really cool planet. How come you method differs so much ?! I am curious to how I might improve the tutorial and learn new stuff. I should upload the next part too, now that I am actually able to access SFM again after my ISP blockade

[vissroid]

Actually I was tempted to contact you on this in attempt to add yet another taste to the texturing process. i dont see very many good tuts up sites very much an this has been 0one of the most promising I've seen. I've even taking some notes on a different way to go about the land masses.

Mine has consisted mainly of digital brushing on a tablet and the use of textures to get my planet started. textures as simple as cracks outside on my sidewalk to space images taking of earth to get the feel of what things look from above(like the way mountains are shaped) to even try to get the feel of painting them even. r course without the use of using the texture in my brushes. and to give a much more fluid look to things fitting in the world.

I've ran into lunarcell many times before and never really experimented enough with it to have any great use. but you've giving me some new insights on testing it some more really.

tho' I've been separated from the art community for quite some time now I've seen in these last few days has been giving me some inspiration to start back up(I seem to have let myself a bit out of the loop in the last year). and seeing that there are good tutorials still showing up out there is promising on how to even improve my skills in a new way.

wow...lol. its late right now and I have to go to work in the morning and yet you started something in me off of a simple question. we may have to talk about this some more and share some insights. find how to give out to the art communities more than one way to get things done.

[Lonewriter]

I haven't looked in this thread in awhile, aszazeroth, are you going to realease a .pdf of this? I would love to read it.