Neighbours - WIP

[PG]

I was thinking of developing a fictional solar system animation so this is where I started. I'm still trying to figure out why the second planet is so grainy, and for some reason my starts don't show up in the background but let's call it a WIP.

[Henry Blewer]

It's a good start.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i agree with the above.

it'll be neat to see animated, with improvements of course. 

[PG]

Yeah, I'm getting a second system next week that I can render on. I increased the intensity of the stars but the render kept crashing about halfway through so I ramped up the GI and put supersample prepass on to do this, still crashed halfway through but it'd done this by that time. Hopefully I can render it properly on the new system.

[dandelO]

If you rack the grey planet's atmo samples up to full quality on the slider it should take away that grain, the defaults for a new planet atmo is only 16 samples.
Maybe you've already done this, though, and it's something completely different.

[rcallicotte]

Yeah, yeah.  Like he said - animated.   

[PG]

Yeah the quality is 256 which is pretty high anyway. I think it may've been the clouds themselves, they're pretty big but my perception of that is usually from ground level. I'll play around with it. I got the stars to appear anyway.

[goldfarb]

DO NOT render the stars in the main image...
stars don't show any parallax in any kind of solar system animation so you can throw anything you want in there...
find a high res picture of a star field you like then composite your planet animation over top.
and you might try rendering each planet separately...compositing is your friend.

[DigitalFear]

Maybe making the planet on the right a little darker would make it look better; try adding some more shadows.