Reply With QuoteOh, and I put Ceres in there properly, with wings.
Five days ago was the first birthday of this thread! OMG! Is there a Procrastination Clinic available in this Guild?
Last night the ideas were asploding in my head for the next & last stop on the tour: Mars. I pre-titled the next chapter "Fear & Terror" (guess why, lol) and I had a cool idea for one of Mars's moons for the next cover, which works into a story thread that I established wayyyyyy back ...
Anyway, long story short, I think I need to include MOONS in this map. I mean, seriously, what good is the Solar System without moons? Earth has quite a characteristic one; the first stop in our tour was a moon of Saturn; and the Galilean moons of Joviter, omg, who can leave those out?
So now that I've stopped dicking about with the 4 planetary ring systems, I find I still have the moons ahead of me. :\
I won't do *all* the moons, of course. There's literally dozens. I'll have them mostly turned off on the map, but some turned on. I dunno which yet. Whichever ones are super cool, I guess.
Also, I added some specular highlights on the planets, which I think makes them look kinda like painted wooden balls, which I think is cool and just what I want for this piece!
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
Oh, and I put Ceres in there properly, with wings.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
Looking forward to that mars cover
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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May i just make a slight constrictive suggestion?
The planets seem a bit glossy, you may wanna make some specular maps, oh and some lack total atmospheric glow, you could do that aswell.
I considered that, but I am going more for a "marbles on a track" feeling.
It's kinda vague in my head and I dunno if I can pull it off.
From the beginning, I threw (most) realism out the window. Scale was the first to go: not just orbital radii, but planet sizes too.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
What cant you pull of?, if it is the atm glow i can prepare a general file for you to modify to suit your needs.
No, I dunno if I can pull off the weird "toy" effect I am trying to imagine.
What do you use for atm glow? I use a falloff map in 3DSmax. I think it worked OK on the Midnight City cover. I tweaked it in Photoshop though, and added the sun-haze edge.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
yup a falloff map & a few gradient ramps to control atm color and density.
umm good luck with the toy effect, i dont gather what u exactly mean.
Neither do I. LOL.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
I managed to laze away the entire day just dinking with the moons. I *have* to stop this part of the project and move on. I just hope I don't get dragged back here for more dinking. I'ma die dinking, I know it. It's worse than procrastination. At least when you procrastinate, you know it. When you dink, you think you're actually working! CG needs a Dinking Clinic.
Anyway, I pray pray pray that this is the final set of astronomical bodies for the map. Now I can move onto dinking around with the layout & other elements!
Also, I had planned to put wayyyyy more asteroids than will fit. So I reduced them down to the ones I picked here. I included some smaller ones instead of some larger ones. I think they'll be options in a menu somewhere maybe.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
