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Subject: Solar Flare effect
well that cleared that up :) care to explain lol ?
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Two suns, side by side. The sun on the right only contains the texture map connected to the ambient node in the materia room. Sun on the left had a displacement and normal map created from the original image map. As you can see, there is more pronounced detail and height to the surface.
I recently did an exploding planet using displacement maps.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2351302&user_id=105188&np&np
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I did this and I'll show you the shaders. (It's three spheres)
But it may not work the same without GC enabled.
I'm throwing this out there to give some head start. I don't think it's finished work, but it's better than what I've seen elsewhere.
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I say this because I'm using displacement in inches based on a 10-inch sphere.
First is the "Core" sphere.
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Notice this has the same Fractal_Sum as the Core. These must match. If you change or replace one, do the same to both.
This uses displacement.
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This sphere must be scaled up to 170% of the size of the others.
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thanks BB, most appreciated, i know you are a busy guy..........
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following on from this, lets say i want to use the mat room and procedurals only to create a series of alien /other worldly planet textures, sure i know theres a bunch of planet texture generators, but my figure has about 12 planets plus moons and having to fill a texture folder with texture maps and bump maps is going to make the figure file very large.
I've been playing with the various functions, marble, clouds etc, i dont need high definition, just a decent colour mix, i'm no genius so any pointers in the right direction would be preciated ty............
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Poser: Poser Pro 2012 SR3.1 ...Poser 8.........Poser5 on a bad
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Modelling: Silo/Hexagon/Groboto V3
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I'll see what I can do to help.
Here's a teaser. Don't have time to explain it yet, but everything you see is procedural, including the star field.
First tip - for dusty worlds, use the Clay node instead of the built-in diffuse. Set the Roughness to 1.
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thanks BB, ive been playing around with this, this morning, ive used the clay diffuse set on 1 as you said, and been experimenting with the 3d textures nodes plugged into the bump to try and replicate your crater effect. so far nothing close, but there again if it was going to be that easy you wouldnt have responded would you lol :rolleyes:
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Poser: Poser Pro 2012 SR3.1 ...Poser 8.........Poser5 on a bad
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Carrara beta 8.5
Modelling: Silo/Hexagon/Groboto V3
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Will you get closer than this?
Some notes on this:
A clouds node generates a height map for the land.
I have the latitude going into a blender.
Two color ramps define the land colors - one for high latitudes, one for low - these two are blended so that stuff closer to the equator looks less green, more arid.
At the poles, another clouds node with a linear offset is compared to latitude and used to generate snow caps.
Another pair of clouds nodes (one modulates the scale of the other, creating swirly patterns) do the planet's clouds.
A bit of specular and additional bump on the water makes it look different from the land.
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no bb, its for my animated orrery figure im working on, in poser scale the largest planet will be no larger than V4's fist, allowing for the odd camera close up, i wont need any more detail than in the two examples you have shown.......... ty and that btw is one of the best planet textures i have seen without using a highly detailed texture map.
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i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2401 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical
Processor(s) 6GB Ram
Poser: Poser Pro 2012 SR3.1 ...Poser 8.........Poser5 on a bad
day........
Daz Studio Pro 4.5 64bit
Carrara beta 8.5
Modelling: Silo/Hexagon/Groboto V3
Image Editing: PSP V9/Irfanview
Movie Editing. Cyberlink power director/Windows live movie
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Well let me throw a couple of these unfinished out there just to see what happens.
There is probably a need to adjust scales as I'm testing a 10-inch sphere.
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i noticed when you loaded the first 10 inch sphere in the sun model, you said you were using displacement in inches, stupid question but is that purely because your default poser units are inches?
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I just tested these on my little orb prop and they suck.
I would need to build these with the actual size in mind. Making them self-sizing is near impossible and I'm not sure I have the time to explain the dozens of size jiggers.
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Quote - i noticed when you loaded the first 10 inch sphere in the sun model, you said you were using displacement in inches, stupid question but is that purely because your default poser units are inches?
Well - yes. When I show a screen shot of my Poser display, you are seeing numbers interpreted by my Poser display unit.
However, I point this out only for people who are NOT using inches.
And coincidentally, the internal units of the material system are inches. So if you look at my units and you look at these values in the files themselves, exactly as they are, they match. If your PDU is anything else, they do not match what is in the file as the PDU is scaling them for display.
This is no concern when I give you a material - but it is when I give you a screen shot. It is also a concern when I give you a material and then I tell you to make some specific adjustment.
If, for example, I tell you to increase a bump value to 1.2 that's inches, not meters. If you're in meters or whatever, you have to convert.
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thats no problem BB, i shall have a crack myself using the guidelines you set out above, worst thing that can happen is i spend some more time in the material room lol, and god knows i need to.
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Poser: Poser Pro 2012 SR3.1 ...Poser 8.........Poser5 on a bad
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Image Editing: PSP V9/Irfanview
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"I live in an unfinished , poorly lit box, but we call it home"
My freestuff
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Quote - I just tested these on my little orb prop and they suck.
I would need to build these with the actual size in mind. Making them self-sizing is near impossible and I'm not sure I have the time to explain the dozens of size jiggers.
They certainly look great on the 10 inch sphere.
What size is the little orb prop?
Quote - > Quote - I just tested these on my little orb prop and they suck.
I would need to build these with the actual size in mind. Making them self-sizing is near impossible and I'm not sure I have the time to explain the dozens of size jiggers.
They certainly look great on the 10 inch sphere.
What size is the little orb prop?
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i'm trying to figure out how to create a decent looking solar flare effect to use in summat i'm doing, i have a half decent sun texture mapped to a rotating globe, and i think i have to use another semi transparent globe just slight larger over it to create the corona, but here is where my problem is, how to create a decent texture that has some depth, or height, depending on which way you look at it. the attached image gives you the idea, it is for stills and animation, so any advice would be appreciated.......ty guys.....ps i know there are a few suns already out there, but as this is for a freestuff figure, i'd rather start from scratch...here is a quick preview of the model i am working on, its still very early wip, but this gives you an idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGVN7qnkDcM
OS: Windows7 64-bit Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2401 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) 6GB Ram
Poser: Poser Pro 2012 SR3.1 ...Poser 8.........Poser5 on a bad day........
Daz Studio Pro 4.5 64bit
Carrara beta 8.5
Modelling: Silo/Hexagon/Groboto V3
Image Editing: PSP V9/Irfanview
Movie Editing. Cyberlink power director/Windows live movie maker
"I live in an unfinished , poorly lit box, but we call it home"
My freestuff
link via my artist page