Lake it or not? (a planet)

[ColAvanor]

I decided to make a planet. A few hours and tries later here it is. Tell me what you think. I added that "lake effect" in the end. Is it good or bad? Like it or not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.elias.pietila.fidisk.fi/planeettavesi.jpeg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remove the "e" from .jpeg to see the image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

900kb png here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.elias.pietila.fidisk.fi/planeettavesi.png

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For comparison...this is the 2nd planet by me and here is the first..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.elias.pietila.fidisk.fi/thefirst.jpg

[bs_johannes]

The rift on the lit part seems a bit off.. dunno what to do about it tho since im not into planetmaking:)

[ColAvanor]

I remember a time when one could recieve feedback on things that weren't pixels made by drawing-challenged people. When did it end?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/rant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the comment....though I don't know what you are on about. The crack? the water? Please excuse my poor English skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made it during a beautifull sunny day and it shows. After relooking at it in the evening I can see it's way lighter than I ment it to be (sunny day = glare and lack of contrast). Have to make the shadow darker. I'll probably only be using the upper half of the planet in the up coming scene so it doesn't matter that much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, comment on it or the bunny gets it! (can't post the picture of the bunny...darn .jpeg)

[axeraider70]

Some of the craters dont blend into the planet, but hey thats the only bad thing, good job.

[Keiphus]

I don't like the X thing in the top right... but I think the canyon deal in the bottom left looks great, adds character to it. I do think though, that your "bevel" (I know that's not what you used, but for lack of abetter word) on the edge between the lake and the land is a bit too much... Planets are huge, and there is no sense of scale with a bevel that big... if the bevel was less obvious, I think it would work out a bit better. Nice job though, looks really cool. 8)

[ColAvanor]

You are right on the emboss. It's a shoreline that's 10km high. But I like how it looks however unreal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three posts..grrr..

[Carlos74]

http://www.elias.pietila.fidisk.fi/thefirst.j.p.g

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The thing in the top left corner is googled. Just though I'd let people know.

[Despaxes]

dont particularly like it at all... lake it

[ColAvanor]

Carlos, do shut up when you don't have a clue. In "the first" there was only one resource used and that was the texture for the planet. Everything else was hand made in Photoshop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the more recent planet I used a few photos from mayang.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Despaxes... what is wrong with it? :cry:

[L337]

The smoothness is cute, I enjoy the complete darkness sourrounding it (which is the realism most space pics lack).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Btw, Miten menee? :D

[Despaxes]

I dont like all the browns, more contrast in colors, not too many though, also the valleys look terrible thats why i said lake it, it looks much better laked. I also don't like the glow around it

[Nadril]

I lake it :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a first (or second or whatever) its nice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The atmosphere could posibly be a more brownish color though, to match the planets color. I also like the effect you have on it, good job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carlos, its not ripped. And i'm certain of all people Avanor wouldn't rip it :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avanor, I belive you used alyn's guide? That or its a different one, his method is very simular to it, but I know what you used :P

[ColAvanor]

I know what you did last summer! or at least you did something very similar to it!! haha!... :twisted: :twisted:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep, tutorials are your friend. I used dinyctis' from devart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually I've fixed the atmo since that version. Much smaller yet it's still blueish. (I want the planet to seem habitable...so I can move there you know :wink:)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS Oops almost missed Despaxes' comment. They look downright terrible? yeh, I'm not excatly psyked about them either. Though the worst pun in history was referring to the lakes already existing...they used to be "empty" as in more brown!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS moi L337