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Title: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 15, 2007, 08:08:01 PM
Hey everyone, This was a test to play around with the defualt shader and to see if I can get a lava like surface that I plan to use in the challenge. Any C&C is welcome hope you guys like it if I ever get some more time to play with it I hope to add an impact crater and a ring, maybe a half formed moon as well.

Regards.

Will

EDIT: fixed some of my terrible spelling.
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Dark Fire on February 15, 2007, 08:12:29 PM
Oh, wow! Good idea! I might try making a newly formed planet soon too - it's a great way to experiment with new stuff!
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 15, 2007, 08:15:10 PM
its pretty easy, all this is is a power fractal connected to a defualt shader with organfe lunosity which has anouther power fractal connected to the luminosity input.

regards,

Wll
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Dark Fire on February 15, 2007, 08:28:59 PM
Aah, but Lava isn't that simple...
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 15, 2007, 08:32:39 PM
yea I know, but at least the coloring can be done this way the geometry will have to be done with somthing else, I'm thicking a water shader that is connected to a twist and shier shader then connected to the defualt shader with the fracti l node in for the luninosity, then have it connected to a lake object or somthing. But this will probuobly end up failing but thats what I lvoe about expermenting!

regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: old_blaggard on February 15, 2007, 08:37:39 PM
You could also try adding variation to the lava color, such as adding yellows and whites, and maybe lighting up the planet a bit more.  I think this is a great idea, and you're off to a good start.
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 15, 2007, 08:41:41 PM
Yea I've been playing arond with that, it came out ok but still needed some tweaking so I didn't post the render. Anyway I though you guys might want to play with it a little so you could explore any and all idea you come up with. I'm currently stuck with the un registered version so the qualty of my shot is low but I'm sure you guy could get better if you wanted.

Regards,

Will

notice that I can't even name files with proper spelling....
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Cyber-Angel on February 15, 2007, 09:29:45 PM
Just to note that a planet at this stage in its development stage is called a Protoplanet : see this Wikipedia Article for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanet

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Oshyan on February 15, 2007, 10:46:41 PM
You don't need to use the "Lake" object to get water. In this case since you want it to cover your entire planet I'd just use a Water Shader or Reflective Shader. I'd also increase the luminosity as it currently seems a bit dull. Great pattern though and otherwise looking good.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 16, 2007, 05:25:30 AM
Thanks Oshyan, for the lake I was acualy talking about using it on a much smaller scene for the image challenge. This just has a power fractle which is connected to a defualt shader with anouther powerfratle in the lumanosity input.

oh and did you guys know you could put in a negitive diffuse color? has some weird effects.


Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 16, 2007, 06:37:16 AM
OK here is a small update, still a ton of tweaking to do but just a quick mock-up that I think looks OK.

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Dark Fire on February 16, 2007, 09:45:14 AM
That's a very wierdly shaped ring thing...
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: dhavalmistry on February 16, 2007, 09:48:05 AM
I think the rocks are not enough....NEED MORE!!! :)
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 16, 2007, 03:02:37 PM
more, hmm ok well I do want it to be fairly realistic Cyber-Angel what do you know on early-stage Protoplanetary rings? You (as always) seem to know somthing on the topic)

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: RealUser on February 16, 2007, 03:10:27 PM
Will, that looks realy promising! That planet woul look great in a space scene with some new born stars and nebulas around it. Kind of the horse nebula (don't know the exact name). Lovely fractal patterns!
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Dark Fire on February 16, 2007, 03:53:39 PM
Quote from: Will on February 16, 2007, 03:02:37 PM
more, hmm ok well I do want it to be fairly realistic Cyber-Angel what do you know on early-stage Protoplanetary rings? You (as always) seem to know somthing on the topic)

Regards,

Will
All I know is that, at that stage, a lot of stuff is going to flying around the solar system. However, if fusion has started in the protostar(s), a lot of stuff will have been blasted away by the solar wind...
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: inkydigit on February 16, 2007, 05:22:14 PM
magma planet...excellent iea, looks great, cant wait to see what comes next!
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 16, 2007, 05:28:24 PM
I was wondering what you guys thought about the rock size in the last render, do you think it should be bigger, smaller, or stay the same?

oh and thanks for all the comments  ;D

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Dark Fire on February 16, 2007, 06:01:14 PM
I'd say they should be slightly bigger - just so they are more visible...
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 17, 2007, 08:59:34 AM
Bigger? Ok ill give it a try.

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 17, 2007, 11:22:26 AM
Heres a vanity shot of the fractals that i'm using to see what diffrent color look like in the image, this one came out pretty well so I'm sharing it with you guys hope you like it.

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Dark Fire on February 17, 2007, 05:59:13 PM
Ooh, wow! I can really see the fractal nature of the fractals in that...

By the way, nice colour - it looks really realistic (or at least it looks like what I think the surface of a newly formed planet should look like)...
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: old_blaggard on February 17, 2007, 06:33:13 PM
Yeah, great job with the pattern.  Is this using the perlin billows function?
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 17, 2007, 06:35:27 PM
Thanks Guys! and I think it is ridges but I can let you know after this next render finishs

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 23, 2007, 06:17:52 PM
Hers an update and my entry for MeltingIce's contest it can be seen here: http://www.meltingice.net/usergallery/generators/original.php?imageid=170

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: old_blaggard on February 23, 2007, 06:54:22 PM
Nice job, Will!  That looks really good :).
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Paolo on February 23, 2007, 09:55:34 PM
What a cool planet. I would try to give more colours variations to the lava shader...a bit of orange and yellow spots, other then that the image looks great.
Cheers
Title: Re: The New Born Planet
Post by: Will on February 24, 2007, 07:43:41 AM
yea I'm still trying to that awwell as making the ring work with the picture better ( I diabled it for this render).

Regards,

Will