Good Morning Jupiter - final on page 2 6000px wide

[FrankB]

... a quick inspiration from this thread: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8393.0

The Jupiter map appears a little washed out....

The nearby planet however came out nicely. No wonder, the global clouds are an early version of nvseal's global clouds. By the way, the entire image rendered in just 8 min 30 sec. Wow!

Cheers,
Frank

[FrankB]

aaargh, I forgot to set the center for the jupiter map to the center of the jupiter planet

correction coming...

[FrankB]

corrected version

[aymenk2003]

Nice render Frank...
I wonder how long does it take to render ??
I've noticed a difference in time of 25 min 11:33 --<> 11:56 between the first and the second post...

N_KAID

[Linda McCarthy]

Just plain AWEsome, Frank.  Could be a Hubble shot!  Wonderful light and texture.  Linda

corrected version

[Henry Blewer]

Both are beautiful shots Frank. I know the second image is what you were striving for, but I always prefer the accidents when they turn out well.

[FrankB]

Nice render Frank...
I wonder how long does it take to render ??
I've noticed a difference in time of 25 min 11:33 --<> 11:56 between the first and the second post...

N_KAID

It rendered for 8 min 30 sec, as I wrote in the first post
The seccond render took also 8 min and something.

Maybe if I have time I play with the scene a little more and render at 4000px

Cheers,
Frank

[EoinArmstrong]

2nd is much better aye - great concept and well-executed!

[Tangled-Universe]

That's a very nice planet Sweet rendertime as well

I've NEVER done an orbital render with TG2 as far as I can recall...so I'm going to ask a stupid question: do you render this with GI? Yes, for the clouds, is the only reason I can think of.

Cheers,
Martin

[Henry Blewer]

I have tried a couple times. They really sucked...

[Thelby]

so I'm going to ask a stupid question: Cheers,
Martin

I am also going to ask a stupid question. By the center of the planet what do you mean? Please give an example?!?!?!?! 

[Tangled-Universe]

so I'm going to ask a stupid question: Cheers,
Martin

I am also going to ask a stupid question. By the center of the planet what do you mean? Please give an example?!?!?!?! 

He means that you have to use the exact same coordinates which define the centre of the planet you wish to texture-map.
If you click on the planet-node you'll see a set of 3 coordinates. Copy these coordinates to the imagemap shader and the spherical projection will be mapped correctly.

Martin

[Thelby]

so I'm going to ask a stupid question: Cheers,
Martin

I am also going to ask a stupid question. By the center of the planet what do you mean? Please give an example?!?!?!?! 

He means that you have to use the exact same coordinates which define the centre of the planet you wish to texture-map.
If you click on the planet-node you'll see a set of 3 coordinates. Copy these coordinates to the imagemap shader and the spherical projection will be mapped correctly.

Martin

Geez, that was easy enough  Thanks Martin!!!

[MacGyver]

Turned out great. I only wonder why Jupiter moved from right to left?

[FrankB]

... exchanged the complete foreground planet with nvseal's planet and rendering right now at 6000px wide - not ready yet, but WOW this looks amazing. Should be ready in 3 hours or so.
TG2 currently consumes roughly 3GB memory.

Frank