Planetary Sunrise by derek-lakin
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Description
A new day dawns for an asteroid damaged plant that still maanges to support life.
Although this isn't my first ever Terragen render, it is my first planetary one and my first here on Renderosity. I was actually trying to get a planet with more atmosphere as in the planet tutorial at terradreams.de, but every time I tried I failed, so anyone has any more tips I'd love to hear them.
I'm open to crticism (preferably constructive) and would love to hear how I can make my artwork better.
I'm already working on my next Terragen project, which will still have a space theme to it, but will not be a planet. Watch this space ...
The terrain file is (I think) a portion of Mars and was kindly provded by Ryan Lefevre.
The surface file is Lavendar Lowlands by Oshyan from the Ashundar Resource Pack #2.
The star field was generated using Celestia (the bright dot is actually our sun, Sol).
The primary sun and the associated lens flare were added using standard filters available in the GIMP.
Comments (5)
bkhook
I like this.. The camera is extremely close to the surface of this planet and I can see terrain through the protective ozone.. How do I know that's ozone? By the way the sun's position and glare on it. cool image...Keep on truckin with your celestial stuff...
twistednoodle
Love the effect of the sun peeping over the planets surface! I really like the green surfacing and on the whole the pic is wonderful. Sorry can't give you any tips - I don't even know how you did this!
derek-lakin
Thank you for your kind comments. Kath: the effect is quite easy really. My terrain was 2049x2049 with a metre point spacing of 865.6639. I turned Curved Terrain on and set the Planet Radius to the preset for Mars (3390km). Then it's just a matter of camera positioning and a bank setting of 46 degrees to get the rotation. The bit that took the longest was trying to get Terragen to render the sun, because it needs a sky big enough to meet the horizon all the way round to avoid any black space. Eventually I gave up and just rendered the planet (with the sun at an altitude of -2 I think). Then post-processed the rest.
stbc
Pretty cool, must try this..... :)
MidnightSon
Wow ! Is that really TG??.. Amazing. But too much postwork for me... ;)