Pluto!

Mahnmut · October 13, 2015, 06:46:14 AM

just a very crudely handmade bumpmap and the color-enhanced map NASA provides.
Thanks, NASA!

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/606/22132719165_fa6c0ee376_o_d.jpg
Better version below (hopefully)

Cheers,
J

Hannes · October 13, 2015, 07:49:46 AM

Looks good so far. Although the bump map seems to be a bit too crude especially to the lower right. Can't you just create a bumpmap out of the NASA texture? Grayscale plus some additional stuff?

Hannes · October 13, 2015, 07:51:09 AM

Hmm, looking at the craters it seems you did exactly this, didn't you? Nevertheless these bumps to the lower right look a bit weird.

archonforest · October 13, 2015, 08:04:45 AM

Good start here. The left side looks pretty cool though.

DocCharly65 · October 13, 2015, 12:11:43 PM

Good start. Thanks NASA AND Mahnmut

Mahnmut · October 13, 2015, 07:19:11 PM

Thanks for your constructive critique Hannes, yes, that´s what I did.
And thanks Doc an Archon!
Here is my next iteration, smaller version for your viewing convenience (modified after Oshyans suggestion)

Full res:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5754/21525670164_5a6680a78b_o_d.jpg

Cheers,
J

Oshyan · October 13, 2015, 08:32:02 PM

The latest version is definitely better, but both are rather nice. I would only suggest having the full-size image viewable in a pop-up instead of "in-line" as there are no scroll bars when it goes full-size and it makes it hard to see the whole image on "smaller" screens (1600x1200 here).

- Oshyan

Kadri · October 13, 2015, 09:01:38 PM

Looks nice.
A different star background maybe?

kaedorg · October 14, 2015, 04:22:07 AM

Pretty nice. You could try an animation from this image.
Not fan of the background stars too.

David

Mahnmut · October 14, 2015, 09:01:57 AM

Thanks to all,
but there won´t be an animation of his image soon, if I had the capacity to make one there would be other candidates first.
Sory to hear the stars don´t please, they are my very own procedural ones from back in the beginning.
Any ideas where to get better stars?
Oshyan, I´d like to show the image als a popup, but I don´t know how.

Cheers,
Jan

archonforest · October 14, 2015, 09:33:37 AM

Second image is really cool!

Oshyan · October 14, 2015, 03:00:23 PM

Ah, I didn't realize you were linking to an off-site image. To make it a pop-up you'd need to attach it here using the attachment function.

- Oshyan

Mahnmut · October 19, 2015, 08:30:35 PM

Hi there, here is an angle that NASA didn´t show you:

full size:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5650/22317340405_b1344e45e7_o_d.jpg

cheers,
J

Matt · October 19, 2015, 10:03:04 PM

Very nice. I think the atmosphere at the terminator would be more realistic if you enable shadows from surfaces (or at least bring the atmosphere's floor setting closer to 0).

Matt

archonforest · October 20, 2015, 04:52:52 AM

Looks pretty cool!