February 2023 Challenge: Sriax System

[Turambar]

Are you going to shade the planets as if lit from the star? That's the aspect that sticks out most to me.

Yes, that i what I tried to do (inspired the original french solar system map linked above). What do you think?

[jshoer]

It looks to me like the light source illuminating the planets is mostly above (from the perspective of the viewer) rather than coming from the star itself. When I look at the original map, there's a pretty distinct dark side to each planet, on the side facing away from the star, so that from the viewer's perspective, they are all half illuminated. Did that help?

[Turambar]

It looks to me like the light source illuminating the planets is mostly above (from the perspective of the viewer) rather than coming from the star itself. When I look at the original map, there's a pretty distinct dark side to each planet, on the side facing away from the star, so that from the viewer's perspective, they are all half illuminated. Did that help?

I see, I'll try darkening the shadows a bit and see how it looks.

[Turambar]

Here we go, finally made some more progress. In addition to adding some more final touches to the planets, I added labeling and details. Don't too look to hard at the science, I tried my best with a very short time, but I would be shocked if there aren't large errors, given that I didn't spend much time on that aspect. Overall, I am pretty happy with this style and how it came out.

Sriax System WIP 4.jpg

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[Adfor]

Love the shadowing that the sun gives off, nice touch! Wonderful work so far.

6D has a typo "Forzen"

IR

[Turambar]

Love the shadowing that the sun gives off, nice touch! Wonderful work so far.

6D has a typo "Forzen"

IR

Thank you! and thanks for the catch, I'll make sure to fix it in the next version.

[Turambar]

This will probably be my last version, since I won't have time to map for the next couple weeks. Pretty happy with the final result though.

Sriax System WIP 5.jpg

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[Simkin]

I like very much your map. Good work Turambar

[Turambar]

I like very much your map. Good work Turambar

Thank you very much Simkin!

[jshoer]

If this is your last version, I hope you're proud of your work. It looks striking.