One...
This one has already been over on renderosity.
...and two. Some much needed plant life in space renders (or at least in my space renders).
I hope you know you're the one I look to in order to understand these space renders. Beautiful job on both. I commented on the first one already at Renderosity.
Good job ;)
nvseal - thanks for showing these, the large scale texturing is amazing. I've been lookign at orbital shots for a while and have been trying to get a desert planet rendered, but it never looks "right" somehow. You've managed to achieve exactly what I've been after with the first of these two renders.
I wouldn't normally ask, but you were kind enough to share your orbital cloudscape .tgd so I'll boldly (though humbly ;D ) ask if you'd be willing to share your desert planet .tgd.
Inscrutable
Never!!!!!
;D Just kidding, here it is. It actually has displacement as you can see in this render. Keep trying to copy those photos too. That's how I've learned do almost all of my orbital shots.
Yah, well, it's magnificent.
It's looking really realistic!
Thanks so much for sharing. I now have a task for this evening when I get home from work! Looking forward to exploring your techniques (actually that sounds a bit dodgy, but I'm sure you get my meaning).