Project Universe

[QinQ]

@Razorblade

if i may give you some chalange… you now added basicly bump maps textures and did light effects.
Now try to render how it would be if one where on those planets, with exception of earth.
Can you make scenes of mars, jupiter pluto etc ?.. that would be more chalanging then this, and require your imagination instead of textures and bumbs from nasa’s texture sources.

Try to do this in cycles, using nodes, there are scripts to do terains, but you might requires something creative to crete craters.
While thinking of this this would be nice for some kind of art chalange for many people around here.

The point of this project isn’t to take on random challenges that have something to do with our solar system. The point is getting familiar with Blender and it’s attributes. This is just the beginning, after finishing base models of every planet, asteroid belts, sun,… i’ll have to give the a final touch that will distinct them from each other and give them unique feel. After that i need to calculate planet sizes, rotation/orbit speeds…, animate every planet (loop animation), add visual/enviroment effects,… At the end i should be able to take on some more default challenges.

[QinQ]

Asteroid Belt (Mars/Jupiter)
Simple Ring Shaped mesh with particle system.
Is there any way to rotate each asteroid around its mid point, so i can rotate mesh on z axis and have every asteroid randomly rotate for itself?