3DScience Fiction planet

Dacattack

Here's a completed 3D model planet - Texture mapping creation and compositing completed in photoshop.

Planet-Test.jpg

evil_genius_180

Wow, awesome work. I really love the cities, those look wonderful. :thumb:

Dacattack

Thanks Evil, . . . this was a fun challenge to do. I'll definitely do more this year

psCargile

Are your clouds hand made?

trekki

Very nice, the texture could be (i) to good use.

Dacattack

psCargile wrote: »

Are your clouds hand made?

A Mix of I high resolution texture mapping, then hand painted in (masking) for the dark city side of the planet.

Dacattack

trekki wrote: »

Very nice, the texture could be (i) to good use.

Thanks Trekki, . . . it came out a lot better than id hoped for.

Comco

Quite spectacular. Very nicely done.

I've taken a crack at the city light illumination texture a few times and can never get it right using plain old Photoshop and procedural textures, although I'm certainly no expert. Did you use Illustrator or similar? I'd be interested to hear more about your technique.

Dacattack

I did indeed use illustrator to draw out the vector shapes and paths to make up the cities. In photoshop i used many many layers to get the effect. pattern-sampled many high-res earth cities to make tile-able patterns on the imported vector art. the kept adding layer after layer of composited earth cities until i was happy with what i got.

I made 2 comps as well for the planet to apply to a 3d model. One was for the sun illuminated side,....the other the dark side of the planet. Combined all this in a falloff map in 3ds max to get the desired look.

final composites back in photoshop.

Lonewriter

Nice planet, reminds me of Coruscant, what its name?