Planet 02 surface not showing

Started by NRJ, August 11, 2013, 05:29:47 AM

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NRJ

I'm trying to create second planet on the sky of my scene and for some reason I can't get the surface visible.
Only the clouds on the second planet get rendered for some reason. See below. In the preview I have this big grey object but nothing else...
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Any ideas on what's going on? I tried to add sunlight and enviro light for that planet 02 too  but that didn't seem to help much, only made the second planets clouds more visible.

alessandro

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Hi, I don't know if it can be of any help but here attached is a .tgd that features two planets.

One thing to be careful that I noticed (I'm very new to TG), is not to use too high values for haze and blue sky density, otherwise distant objects, such as second planet, won't be visible.
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NRJ

Thanks for the pointers but didn't work... I was able to render your scene and it worked and I also tried copying the whole planet 2 node network to my project but that didn't help either. I see the planet in preview window but upon rendering it doesn't get rendered. Attached is my project file if anyone want's to take a peek. Might be my weird lighting etc setups? Though I tried disabling them and didn't help.



alessandro

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bobbystahr

NRJ...get your sun up in the sky and you'll see it fine....hard to see something that's not lit. You'd see it fine from the bottom which is where all your light seems pointed.
something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist

alessandro

Ok, one thing that contributed to make the planet almost unvisible was the Cloud Layer scale on Planet2, which was so small to cover the whole planet of very light pixels. I disabled it, changed the second sunlight angle, tweaked a little the atmosphere on planet1 (mostly the bluesky parameters).
After that I added a Surface Layer on the second planet, added a very low luminosity coefficient so that the planet surface would pop up a little more.
The planet it's now starting to show up, if you want it more visible, I think the best way is to lower down blue sky settings and choose a lighter sky color to compensate for it. And of course move the sun lights so that it's more properly lit.
Hope this helps, modded project attached.
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NRJ

Thanks bobbystahr and especially alessandro! Looking great now and thanks for teaching few important things!

alessandro

You're welcome, I've just started studying TG since a week and I've got a ton of things to understand myself :)
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bobbystahr

happy to help...had the same problem way back
something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist