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#1 Frozen_byte

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:41 AM

Okay, here is another way to make Spacescapes like this:
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Plugins you will need:
Shape3D
Diagonal Lines
(Dents is part of PDN)
Align Object or find a newer version in this pack KrisVDM's Plugin Pack
Zoom Blur Deluxe
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1. Your Background
Okay, Start with a new layer [your own Wallpaper size] and add Noise with these settings:
Intensity: 100
Color Sat.: 0 [or 20]
Coverage: 3.5
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Make another Layer :AddNewLayer: and add Noise with same Settings. Use Gaussian Blur :GaussianBlur: Radius: 1 or 2.
Set the Opacity to 120 and Blendmode to Glow
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Duplicate you first Layer :DuplicateLayer: and apply Frosted Glass plugin :FrostedGlass: : Maximum/Minimum Scatter Radius: 0.11
Smoothness: 1
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Erase a curve :EraserTool: on your "Frosted" Image [thx Lego, but I'm too lazy to fix he image yet -_-]:
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Merge your Layers down :MergeDown:
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2. Your Planets [Quiet similar to Withers]
If you dont want to modulate the Shape 3D Setting yourself, Load this XML in:
http://bloodynoir.fr...pace/Planet.xml
http://uploaded.to/?id=4sfofv
http://mentors.webho...tuFF/Planet.xml
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Add new Layer :AddNewLayer: Take a color by your choice and fill the new Layer :FillSelection:.
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Apply Shape 3D:
Take a scaling as you like it
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Make some Clouds :CloudsEffect: on a new layer :AddNewLayer: [default settings]
Blendings:
Mode: Glow, Overlay, Multiply [choose an alternative]
Apply Shapde 3D again with same settings.
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Add a new layer :AddNewLayer: add Noise :AddNoise: add Gaussian Blur Radius: 2-3 [depend on your Planet Size] :GaussianBlur:
Switch to a "Planet layer" select all space out of your Planet :MagicWandTool:.
Switch back to your "Blurred Noise Layer" press DEL to delete.
Blendingmode: Overlay
Opacity: 255
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Add a new Layer between your last Planet layer and Background again :AddNewLayer:
Switch to a "Planet layer" select all space out of your Planet :MagicWandTool: and press CTRL+I to invert selection :InvertSelection:.
Fill selection with White [or another light color] :FillSelection:.
Add Gaussian blur, radius: around 15 :GaussianBlur:.
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Now move your white blurred circle 1px left and 1px down [or where the lightning of planet is] :MoveTool:.
set:
Blendingmode: Normal
Opacity: 180
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3. The new cosmical Clouds
So, add a new layer as always :AddNewLayer:
Set primary color Black, secondary color Transparent 100%
Do clouds with settings:
Scale: 380 - 650
Roughness: 0.50 - 0.80
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Do it three times, set Blendings:
First Cloud Layer:
Mode: Color dogde
Opacity: 255
Second Cloud Layer:
Mode: Mutiply
Opacity: 159
Third Cloud Layer.
Mode: Mutiply
Opacity: 255
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Well then? - Yes! :AddNewLayer: :roll:
So now Press B for Paintbrush :PaintBrushTool:.
Take a large size: 60++
Color anywhere.
Pick a Second Color, lower your Size [I now I missed]
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Use GauusianBlur radius: ~35 :GaussianBlur:
Take another color, lower your size, add :GaussianBlur: radius: ~30.
Take another color, lower your size [or don't do it], add :GaussianBlur: radius: ~25, again.
Do this a couple of times, till you got this:
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A last Blur :GaussianBlur: around 135.
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Switch Blendmode to Lighten, Opacity to 80
Do this "Clouds" again and again, till you like it.
Set all layer Blendmodes to Lighten and Opacity to 80
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Than add a new layer :AddNewLayer:
Make Diagonal Lines:
Scanline Interval: 25
Brush Width: 2
Anti-Alias: 5
Angle: 45
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Use Dents plugin.
#General:
Scale: 55
Amount: 50
Quality: 5
#Detail:
Detail: 70-100
Roughness: 50
Turbulence: 10-20
#Rest as Default
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Blendmode: Overlay
Opacity: 90
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To light up your Clouds, paint :PaintBrushTool: them and use Gaussian Blur radius: 135 :GaussianBlur:
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Blendmode: Overlay
Opacity: 255
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Okay now there is a problem and it's very ugly!
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to clear it we need to edit our Starscape again:
Duplicate the Starscape layer and set Blendmode to overlay:
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But now there are only a few stars...
so we will add some new:
Add new layer :AddNewLayer:

Add Noise :AddNoise::
Intensity: 100
Saturation: 0-10
Coverage: 100

Add Frosted Glass :FrostedGlass:
Maximum/Minimum Scatter Radius: 200
Smoothness: 1

Blendmode: Normal
Opacity: 30
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Yeha, that's a cosmos, isn't it?
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4. The second Planet
Read above [second chapter] to see the specific way, here is just a conspectus
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Take your Second planet behind the first and move it away.
Do a transparent Gradient :LinearGradient: :AlphaChannelOnly: on your First Planets atmosphere, to get a better look.
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5. The huge Fireball.
Okay now we will add our Sun.
Make a new layer on top :AddNewLayer:.
Make a Paintbrush Dot in the Middle [Use Algin Object] Radius: 15-25 :PaintBrushTool:
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Use Frosted Glass Plugin :FrostedGlass:
Maximum Scatter Radius: ~7.78
Minimum Scatter Radius: 0.00
Smoothness: 2
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Use Zoom Blur Deluxe, set amount to highest and quality to high
Duplicate layer CTRL + F
Duplicate layer CTRL + F, again
Merge the two lower Sun-Layers down
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Move your two layers to an edge of your planet :MoveTool:
Deactivate the top layer
Make an Transparent Concial Gradient :ConicalGradient::AlphaChannelOnly: on your lower layer.
Blendmode: Screen
Opacity: 255
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Switch to upper layer and make another Transparent Linear Gradient :LinearGradient::AlphaChannelOnly:
Blendmode: Additive
Opacity: 255
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Add a new layer behind your planets :AddNewLayer:
Draw an white filled Eclipse with Paintbrushtool :PaintBrushTool:
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Do Gaussian Blur Radius: 15-25 :GaussianBlur:
Blendmode: Normal
Opacity: 90
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5. Finally you are done.
Thats it.
here is your Result:
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It looks pretty well, I think
I memorized all Icons, now :lol:
Feel free to post your try.
Feel free to correct my English [I know it's bad - I'm German >,>].
Feel free to post suggestions [like how to get a Sun behind the planets].
Started to make this Tutorial: 9:00 PM; finished: 12:31 PM
Thanks MediaMonkey for playing music all the time.

Have Phun.
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#2 Lego

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 10:38 AM

Bookmarked, BTW you spelt 'Erase' wrong.. :o

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#3 ncfan51

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 12:02 PM

Well described tutorial. 2nd...longest...tut...evar?

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#4 Frozen_byte

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 12:06 PM

My second and my longest tutorial ever.
But I don't know, if it's the longest Tutorial in this Forum :?
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#5 jeffrey032

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 08:35 PM

Pretty cool, do you know if there is a way to make the clouds seamless? Because I'd like to use a variation of this for the sky in my game, but the images don't match up very well.

#6 Frozen_byte

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 08:38 PM

Just set down the Roughtness and maybe increase the Scale
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 08:58 PM

Im using this tut for my science project. Im going to generate Uranus and Pluto with it. I dunno how im gonna generate Saturn though... :|

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#8 Frozen_byte

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:04 PM

search.php?keywords=saturn&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
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#9 Dalton

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:12 PM

Wow.
Talk about long load for pictures.
I just clicked stop.
:roll:

Oh well.
I saw what it looked like after everything... pretty nice!
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Possibly the longest tutorial I've ever seen!
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#10 jeffrey032

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:39 PM

Never mind, I figured it out.

Render black and white clouds in a seamless image program
Load image into paint shop pro, and use it as the alpha mask for a black image
Load back into Paint.NET

#11 david.atwell

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:43 PM

Suggestion: Crop your screenshots down to an area of interest. That makes for a faster load. :-)

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The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.
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#12 DRILL

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 09:47 PM

very nice
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#13 Frozen_byte

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 11:24 PM

Suggestion: Crop your screenshots down to an area of interest. That makes for a faster load. :-)


Is there any choise to crop images in BB Code?
I only know the {IMG} URL {/IMG}...
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 11:34 PM

I mean crop them before you post them.

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The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.
Amy: But how did it end up in there?
The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.
River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him.


#15 Frozen_byte

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 11:39 PM

Now, why didn't I think of that?
Next time i will do it.

But is there any choise to resize it with BB code?
Is HTML allowed? Thank i'll shrink them with HTML code.
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 11:53 PM

Now, why didn't I think of that?
Next time i will do it.

But is there any choise to resize it with BB code?
Is HTML allowed? Thank i'll shrink them with HTML code.

Does your image host support resizing on their site?
If not use photobucket next time. they do.

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 12:05 AM

My second and my longest tutorial ever.
But I don't know, if it's the longest Tutorial in this Forum :?

Nay. 2nd longest. The longest, I recall, was ~60 steps.

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 12:13 AM

or just upload them to imageshack.us and just use the thumbnails or before you upload there's an option to resize...
Picture below.

(this is a thumbnail)
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#19 Frozen_byte

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Posted 16 March 2008 - 06:04 AM

So, I thumbnailed all 31 Images. *is dead now X_X*
If there's any bug please tell me.
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Posted 16 March 2008 - 11:21 PM

So, I thumbnailed all 31 Images. *is dead now X_X*
If there's any bug please tell me.

Well, now the only thumbnail that works is SNAG-0011.png, all other thumbnails are broken :? . When you clic on them you get the "this image or video has been moved or deleted" picture. Could you fix this please?