It's been a few hours at least since someone posted a Mars image... so here is another! :P
Bigger version here:
http://www.archer-designs.com/temp/mars/mars-1600.jpg (http://www.archer-designs.com/temp/mars/mars-1600.jpg)
That looks pretty awesome! Great colors. Are you planning on changing the atmosphere colors?
very very nice surface !!!
hope you'll change your atmo colours ;D
why? he's one step ahead, terraforming ;)
Quote from: child@play on April 23, 2008, 05:42:27 PM
why? he's one step ahead, terraforming ;)
i don't see vegetation down there ;)
great job, would look good in a pano.
Well I hadn't planned on changing the atmosphere colour. I like the more controversial blue sky mars, and it certainly gives a nice contrast with the orange/red. But for those of you who like their mars in the standard red haze format, here is a quick photoshopping for you. :P
Hubble telescope view blue atmosphere Mars:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/hst_mars270.jpg (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/hst_mars270.jpg)
Awesome Mars image one of the better I see, how do you made that?
i like the first one the best as you said the contrast between the blue and orange is really remarkable ;)
I like the color, the vibrancy. It's not the usual and still is fun to look over.
Man, this is juicy! :o
This is the best planetary render I've seen since NVSeal posted his latest planet.
Double thumbs up from me on this!
Beautiful planet, in particular very successful surface !
the two of them are wonderful ! very good job !
even better than the real thing...is the planet terrain all procedural?
Excellent! Tell us how you made it look like that (the surface)!
Thanks for all the comments. This was actual one of the simplest renders I've done in a very long time. First I downloaded the highest resolution mars surface map that I could find (8192 x 4096) which I then modified in photoshop to add some vibrancy, contrast and some sharpening to pull out some of the hidden features. This Image map I used as a shader for the colours and detail on the planet. I then took the same image and converted it into grayscale did some levels and curves work and used this as a displacement shader. The only other adjustments I made was to mess around with the atmosphere to get the look I wanted.
I downloaded the surface map here: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ (http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/)
Next steps are to begin figuring out how much powerfractal data is needed for various zoom levels to eventually create an animation zooming from planetary level down to surface level.
A screenshot of the embarrassingly simple node network is attached.
This looks gorgeous! I'm biased from all of the exposure I've had to NASA photos, so the only quibble I have is that the surface is too shiny. ;D
Though amazingly simple created, still a fantastic image!
I really like the wat it looks so far. Keep the atmo as it is, for me ;)
Martin
Here is Jupiter done in the same sort of way as the Mars image.
Nice displacements on the cloud tops, though I'd suggest softening the displacement slightly.
Hey, cool stuff!- Mars especially.
monks
agree with NWsenior about Jupiter but it is still amazing
also Jupiter has this characteristic whitey peachy haze around it you image here is to clear i think :)
I agree about the displacement. Too much. And for me the color is too resilient for space.