Rotate Planet Atmosphere.

Started by scrambled2, December 12, 2012, 08:21:50 PM

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scrambled2

Quick question. I am doing a space POV on a planet I made and the whole planet can be seen. I can get the planet to rotate with its textures properly, but how can I get the atmosphere to rotate
with it? When I try it now, the planet just rotates and the atmosphere stays in the same place when I rotate under the "planet" settings. Thanks in advance.

Chris

Simius Strabus

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Feed your cloud fractal through a Transform shader. That way you can rotate the atmosphere along with the planet. You may also rotate different cloud layers at different speeds for a nice effect. I've made a low quality test render here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrU_t81Gu3U&feature=youtu.be
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scrambled2

This is quite helpful thank you!

Chris