Hey all, this is my first post on this website. I’m working on a 3d solar system that includes their orbital paths
All planets are accuratly scaled with their correct size ratios.
Scroll down to see images of the planets, I felt that I had too many images on this page and deleted the origional ones.
Yeah, I actually redid all of the paths in a total of about 2 hours. So, they are fixed now… and also fixed the lighting (was using a sun instead of a lamp before). I don’t know what a bumpmap is. I’ll look into it. Thanks for the reply.
at NASA you can get some bump or normal map for some planets butnot all i thnk
did you set up a camera fly by for the planet to make a small video ?
can you load up a sample file for the planets rigging wihtout the map for the planet just simple sphere !
would be nice for other peoples who would like to try it
It’s all fully animated. Their orbital paths and currently working on moons for each planet. And as for sharing the file… I don’t know, this is one of my first real projects in Blender.
The orbit times are accuratly scaled… Except for Neptune. A path object does not allow me to have a path length of 60,200. (Just set it to the max allowable length, 32,767). Working on bumpmaps now, we’ll see how it turns out.
but can you explain a little how you set up the planet to do the animation!
if you have some moon going around a planet there must be a way to do that
the other people can use this to do their own set up
or may be just make a new small file with only one planet around the sun and one moon
and upload it
should be small enough no need for all the mapping or texturing just to show how to set it up
Alright, I have posted a tutorial on planet orbit paths. It is located here.
Might as well use this comment to show the new planet textures/bump maps as well.