Frozen_byte Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Okay, here is another way to make Spacescapes like this: 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 - - - - - - 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 ___ Make another Layer and add Noise with same Settings. Use Gaussian Blur Radius: 1 or 2. Set the Opacity to 120 and Blendmode to Glow ___ Duplicate you first Layer and apply Frosted Glass plugin : Maximum/Minimum Scatter Radius: 0.11 Smoothness: 1 ___ Erase a curve on your "Frosted" Image [thx Lego, but I'm too lazy to fix he image yet -_-]: Merge your Layers down ___ 2. Your Planets [Quiet similar to Withers] If you don't 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 ___ Add new Layer Take a color by your choice and fill the new Layer . ___ Apply Shape 3D: Take a scaling as you like it ___ Make some Clouds on a new layer [default settings] Blendings: Mode: Glow, Overlay, Multiply [choose an alternative] Apply Shape3D again with same settings. ___ Add a new layer add Noise add Gaussian Blur Radius: 2-3 [depend on your Planet Size] Switch to a "Planet layer" select all space out of your Planet . Switch back to your "Blurred Noise Layer" press DEL to delete. Blendingmode: Overlay Opacity: 255 ___ Add a new Layer between your last Planet layer and Background again Switch to a "Planet layer" select all space out of your Planet and press CTRL+I to invert selection . Fill selection with White [or another light color] . Add Gaussian blur, radius: around 15 . ___ Now move your white blurred circle 1px left and 1px down [or where the lightning of planet is] . set: Blendingmode: Normal Opacity: 180 ___ 3. The new cosmical Clouds So, add a new layer as always Set primary color Black, secondary color Transparent 100% Do clouds with settings: Scale: 380 - 650 Roughness: 0.50 - 0.80 ___ Do it three times, set Blendings: First Cloud Layer: Mode: Color dodge Opacity: 255 Second Cloud Layer: Mode: Multiply Opacity: 159 Third Cloud Layer. Mode: Multiply Opacity: 255 ___ Well then? - Yes! :AddNewLayer: So now Press B for Paintbrush . Take a large size: 60++ Color anywhere. Pick a Second Color, lower your Size ___ Use Gaussian Blur radius: ~35 Take another color, lower your size, add radius: ~30. Take another color, lower your size [or don't do it], add radius: ~25, again. Do this a couple of times, till you got this: A last Blur around 135. __ 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 ___ Than add a new layer Make Diagonal Lines: Scanline Interval: 25 Brush Width: 2 Anti-Alias: 5 Angle: 45 ___ Use Dents plugin. #General: Scale: 55 Amount: 50 Quality: 5 #Detail: Detail: 70-100 Roughness: 50 Turbulence: 10-20 #Rest as Default Blendmode: Overlay Opacity: 90 ___ To light up your Clouds, paint them and use Gaussian Blur radius: 135 Blendmode: Overlay Opacity: 255 ___ Okay now there is a problem and it's very ugly! to clear it we need to edit our Starscape again: Duplicate the Starscape layer and set Blendmode to overlay: ___ But now there are only a few stars... so we will add some new: Add new layer Add Noise : Intensity: 100 Saturation: 0-10 Coverage: 100 Add Frosted Glass Maximum/Minimum Scatter Radius: 200 Smoothness: 1 Blendmode: Normal Opacity: 30 ___ Yeah, that's a cosmos, isn't it? ___ 4. The second Planet Read above [second chapter] to see the specific way, here is just a conspectus ___ 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. ___ 5. The huge Fireball. Okay now we will add our Sun. Make a new layer on top . Make a Paintbrush Dot in the Middle [use Align Object] Radius: 15-25 ___ Use Frosted Glass Plugin Maximum Scatter Radius: ~7.78 Minimum Scatter Radius: 0.00 Smoothness: 2 ___ 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 ___ Move your two layers to an edge of your planet Deactivate the top layer Make an Transparent Conical Gradient :AlphaChannelOnly: on your lower layer. Blendmode: Screen Opacity: 255 ___ Switch to upper layer and make another Transparent Linear Gradient :AlphaChannelOnly: Blendmode: Additive Opacity: 255 ___ Add a new layer behind your planets Draw an white filled Eclipse with Paintbrush tool ___ Do Gaussian Blur Radius: 15-25 Blendmode: Normal Opacity: 90 ___ 5. Finally you are done. That's it. here is your Result: It looks pretty well, I think I memorized all Icons, now Feel free to post your try. Feel free to correct my English . 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lego Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Bookmarked, BTW you spelt 'Erase' wrong.. :o Quote Lego's deviantART. La De Da... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncfan51 Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Well described tutorial. 2nd...longest...tut...evar? Quote +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ I am a disco dancer. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_byte Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 My second and my longest tutorial ever. But I don't know, if it's the longest Tutorial in this Forum :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffrey032 Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_byte Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 Just set down the Roughtness and maybe increase the Scale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lego Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 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... Quote Lego's deviantART. La De Da... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_byte Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 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 third post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Wow. Talk about long load for pictures. I just clicked stop. Oh well. I saw what it looked like after everything... pretty nice! :] Possibly the longest tutorial I've ever seen! Quote MyBB Tutorials, check out my site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffrey032 Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Suggestion: Crop your screenshots down to an area of interest. That makes for a faster load. :-) Quote 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRILL Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_byte Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 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}... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I mean crop them before you post them. Quote 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_byte Posted March 6, 2008 Author Share Posted March 6, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 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. Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncfan51 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 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. Quote +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ I am a disco dancer. +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 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) Quote MyBB Tutorials, check out my site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_byte Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 So, I thumbnailed all 31 Images. *is dead now X_X* If there's any bug please tell me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciberman_11 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkfight Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 I got an awesome outcome, but id like to try again be4 posting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_byte Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 okay fixed all links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozo Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Looking at this I am almost, almost inspired enough to make a tutorial for my signature. But not quite... Good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaPK Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 This is a great tutorial! Here's my result: Quote HaPK's Pictorium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrettyDarnNeat Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Really good tutorial. Here's mine. I added a tweak to the stars and repositioned the "fireball". Interesting treatment with the clouds, you must have been on caffine or meds when you figured that one out. Thanks for your tut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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