Quote - Great work!

Can't wait to buy this.

Thanks!

I cannot really say when it will be available. Would love to offer it right away but more testing/development needs to be done.

Also I want  to make certain that it`s easy to handle (within certain rules), while offering a great amount of flexibility, so that when an artist is using the pack he gets the chance to give the skies,/scenes his own personality/expression. 

Quote - I really like that last nebula.
Those terrains look fab

Glad you like those.

With  procedural fractal terrains it`s impossible to exactly control how the terrain will look like because you deal with randomness. But I do not see this as a negative aspect.

What`s important is to spend time with the function so the terrain gets its desired characteristics, and when those are defined you can explore the terrain, simply by offsetting the whole function or by exploring it with the camera.

The same applies to nebulae (funny that the same fractal nodes which work for terrains also work for nebulae or for clouds.

Quote - Fantastic work. Congratulations!

Thanks!

Quote - :woot: My jaw drop to floor. :thumbupboth:

Mazak

I love to hear that :-)

Currently I`m trying to create some decent infinite terrains ( mainly alien worlds) for use with the sky pack.

Hello again!

I wanted to give you some news on the Vue Space Project as well as some cool discoveries.

First, I am REALLY happy with the render speed improvement of procedural terrains  in V7I 7.4. 

Now for the project itself, there have been some changes.
The more I`m working with Vue the more I tend to create the elements needed directly in Vue.
No need to mention that this way they (I am speaking of stars, nebulae, moons, planets etc) can be edited and there is no limitation when it comes to render size.

The basic concept is still the same: The starfield (and some nebulae) is projected onto a sphere. Elements like nebulae, suns, galaxies are projected onto planes, which are facing the camera.
The planets moons are now 3D object and are lit by a directional light source.
Apart from skies and sky elements I also spent quite some time experimenting with terrains, especially infinite terrains.

Now I would like to show you some renders along with some comments.