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hehe shape 3d for planets thats the lazy way sozo

It's the only way, unfortunately. Perhaps if some of our esteemed plugin making members were to make a photoshop-like sphereize effect...

Correction: Its the only GOOD way to make planets. There's still the lens option

Also, is that a PDN texture or is it using a stock or another program? Just wondering. Textures always annoy me and yours always rule.

[Sozo]

hehe shape 3d for planets thats the lazy way sozo

It's the only way, unfortunately. Perhaps if some of our esteemed plugin making members were to make a photoshop-like sphereize effect...

Correction: Its the only GOOD way to make planets. There's still the lens option

Also, is that a PDN texture or is it using a stock or another program? Just wondering. Textures always annoy me and yours always rule.

I took a picture of concrete actually. It has been significantly changed with Paint.NET though. I was going to make a normal looking planet until I started messing around with the gradient mapping plugin and got a really good looking volcanic world.

[oma]

How's this image for a beautiful color gradient Oma? This is one of many good examples of lots of good space art out there, and one of the pieces that inspires me. Work like this is always a learning process, and next time I'll use a blue are greenish color. Blue and green are my preference anyway.

yes my preference as well for space scenes is the blue and green, sometimes light inky purple. I often think space is cold and blue green just makes me feel the immensity and awe inspiring vastness. Orange red is so in your face. up close and scorching instead of distant and mysterious as cool colors would be.

ciao OMA

[theonlychad]

hehe shape 3d for planets thats the lazy way sozo

It's the only way, unfortunately. Perhaps if some of our esteemed plugin making members were to make a photoshop-like sphereize effect...

Actually i don't even use shape 3d on my planets sozo if you take a look at blue resonance on my d.a that planet was made by using simple gradients and a texture made in pdn.

The method i use bypasses shape 3d. I make an alpha mask of the shape of the planet then i alpha mask a texture layer then alpha mask a layer of white and a layer of black then i use a transparent radial gradient to make it look like this below

that only took about 5 minutes to slap that together. You can make things look 3d without shape 3d

[Sharp]

Also, I used to save as alpha mask, then run bulge with low setting s a few times, then run alpha mask again so it's the original size. But I've decided shape3d is faster and looks more realistic/less quality loss on texture.

Regarding the latest version, I like it better than the first. But since you fixed my other nag I guess I'll give you another one Since you made the planet smaller, which to me mostly makes it look farther away, it seems like the planet would be brighter than before and should have more intense lighting.

[dragonG1]

Nice Sozo! some of those pictures are AMAZING! good work!

[Zwicky]

LOVE the latest space-scape :shock:

[Wilson]

A-MAZ-ING! :shock: :shock: Great texture on the planet too.

[Sozo]

Wilson, Zwicky, and DragonG1, thank you all.

@Sharp: Well, I did add a bit of glow around the interior edge of the planets, towards the nova. Aside from that, though, I mostly left it the same.

[Skitzo]

hmm.

very nice, as always your space sigs turn out great

you should maybe make a few tuts on making space scapes

and all the stuff eh?

[Possum Roadkill]

"Nex Solor" is a really beautiful piece. I really enjoy the spacescapes and your's are particularly good.

[Sozo]

I'm working on another space pic right now. It's slow going with all the work I have to do for school. Thank you both for your comments.

[Sozo]

Well, I've been working on a new space scene, as I said before. It's currently very much a work in progress, but I thought I'd post a preview anyway so you peoples could see how I was doing and maybe give me some feedback.

Enjoy the Cobalt Dust Cloud (name also a WIP):

More work to be done on the stars, both big and small. Also, planets! I plan to feature a gas giant as the main planet in this one, plus one or two more small planets.

Oops, forgot to mention: so far this is 100% Paint.NET.

[Sarkut]

Very nice.

Pls. post ongoing updates, so we can watch it progress.

[flip]

Nice.

[sokagirl]

Awesome , love the color ..

[jerkfight]

No lies, that's pretty sexy. Can't wait til' its finished.

[Sharp]

Awesomeness. Colors are awesome, as is the texture on the gas stuff. :shock:

[Sozo]

Thank you all for your comments, I'm glad to know there's interest.

As per Sarkut's request, here's an update. I think I've got the gas giant pretty near done:

I'm going to work more with the lighting on the gas giant and with the wayward, lonely star there beside it. Also, because this one seems to be going so well (still all Paint.NET at this point), I'm going to try another crack at making some good rings. Two moons to go in too. See ya'll later. Spring break begins now!

[barbieq25]

Gosh I love it. Those bright stars are awesome. Really has a lot of depth. Great job so far!

[Lance McKnight]

I'm somewhat surprised there isn't a glow coming from the planet, that's something I usually see in all of your planet works, unless you are going into a new direction? The background suffers a bit from gradient artificial, but it isn't all that detracting. This looks to be another masterpiece from you, Sozo. Keep it up.

[Sozo]

@ Lance: Yeah, I still want to play with the planet lighting a bit. I'll try to see what looks best.

@ Welsh & BBQ: Thanks for both your comments, I really appreciate your support.

[chrisco97]

Love the new spacescape! Did you make the planet?

[DarkShock]

Very nice. I like the contrast, but I'd like to see more colors.

[Sozo]

@ Chris: Yep, as noted, the whole scene is all created in Paint.NET by myself. I should have another incremental update soon, and I'll place them side by side so you can compare.

@ DarkShock: I'll see what I can do, there's always the moons.