My First Terragen 2 Render

[schnzrs]

Hello everybody...
I am fairly new to Terragen, I started using it a while ago but never really used it much. I would just mess around with it. Here is really my first 'good' render. This is the first thing I have spent time working on.




Please be nice... I am very new to this stuff 

[TheBlackHole]

Saturn looks GREAT. It looks like it's Photoshopped in, because the lighting on the planet doesn't match the lighting from the sun. Titan's atmosphere should be more cloudy and dense. Think Venus, but orange, and darker.

[schnzrs]

That saturn was a 3ds max model I made a few months back. I was too lazy to import into terragen, so I decided to just render it and merge the Terragen and 3ds render together.

[TheBlackHole]

Have you tried creating a second planet and texturing it with a map of Saturn, then making a model of the rings in 3DS (I use Anim8or, it's freeware) and putting the ring model around the planet model? Or you could just light the 3DS Max planet from behind and a little left and then Photoshop it in.

[schnzrs]

Have you tried creating a second planet and texturing it with a map of Saturn, then making a model of the rings in 3DS (I use Anim8or, it's freeware) and putting the ring model around the planet model? Or you could just light the 3DS Max planet from behind and a little left and then Photoshop it in.

Yeah, I'll try that. I am still new to all this stuff, but I will test that out tomorrow.

[gregsandor]

Please be nice... I am very new to this stuff 

If you want a "nice" critique, show it to your mom.    That said, it does look cool.  Welcome. 

Try it with some fog in front of that planet:  it looks like the atmosphere is very hazy where the sun is, then you have a very crisp Saturn with no haze.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

looking at it the second time, i find the ground surface looks good, & i agree with TBH, the lighting doesn't match, and the atmosphere could more dense and cloudy like.

keep going