Picture critique

[Thejazzshadow]

How would I make this picture look more realistic?

[TheBlackHole]

Use a higher-res map of Jupiter. Bjorn Jonsson's got a cool one here:
http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/data/jupiter/index.html
You might also want to give Jupiter an atmosphere (slightly brownish). If you're feeling adventurous, also give Jupiter a cloud layer with the density shader set to be the Jupiter map.

[Thejazzshadow]

How do I give another planet a cloud layer?

[Tangled-Universe]

How do I give another planet a cloud layer?

Go to the planet-node and right-click on it, then choose internal network. Inside the internal network of the planet object you will see a surface shader (which is your imagemap essentially) and an atmosphere shader. Just like in your "normal" work put a cloud layer in between and you're ready to go.

Cheers,
Martin

PS: Perhaps it is more suitable to post these kind of topics in the image-sharing section next time. In the image sharing section you can post your TG creations and discuss it specifically.

[Jack]

could you post the tgd file I will mess around with it nd get up to scratch