first blender simple project : earth

Artwork Works in Progress
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hi folks of the blender forum!!!

how are you? i am doing my first blender project which is earth. i am still a newbie, used blender for like 2 days.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y106/htooi/blender/planet.jpg
planet.jpg800×600

can you recommend me any newbie tutorial on making planets? any suggestions are welcomed.

thanks :slight_smile:

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Add more light to the scene, and make the space black - it looks like blue only from earths surface. :slight_smile:

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Nice base texture. I can’t wait to see this with proper clouds.

Check out: https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21164.
Nice tut there.

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updated with clouds. ^ :smiley:

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the stars look horrible. . . . try adding more stars that are way smaller.

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Don’t lie to the guy, the base texture sucks :wink:

Get a decent, high resolution texture from Nasa’s Blue Marble site:

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thank you for the critics. they are useful. i have changed the base earth texture in my working copy. the texture posted has a not realistic ocean blue colour.
and i’ll work on the stars too.

:Z