Test render from a very simple blender animation i am working on as early blender learning project.

Feel free to use as you please. Textures courtesy NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

Render and texture edits by me, made with Blender.

    • InfiniteSpaces@lemmy.worldOPM
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      4 days ago

      Didnt do anything specific in that regard, its a just a standard UV sphere with a (2:1) texture map. I did run in to that issue when trying to export (bake) a procedural gas planet texture map, but its pretty trivial to fix the texture map in photoshop afterwards. This is just an entry level project i did to learn the basics of blender, after 25 years of using 3DsMax only. Took a good while to render on my new pc so i thought i should share it before deleting it localy.

      • lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        This is my recreation of your picture. Your bumps appear more detailed than mine. Did you add noise to it, or are your bumps just stronger than mine?

        • InfiniteSpaces@lemmy.worldOPM
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          3 days ago

          Ooh nice, i may have used a higher res texture, or could be more subdivisions, this is very close though!

          I have worked in the industry from time to time, but mostly i have been a independant illustrator, moving to blender now as i want to try out game assets (modding a game like ksp, or cs1/2) and alot of mods for games seems to prefer blender.

          • lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            I made this model a while ago with the same NASA data. I have no clue where you get the extra bumps in the flat regions from, because I also used the 1GB height map. But I think my bump strength is accurate, because it matches my references.

            • InfiniteSpaces@lemmy.worldOPM
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              3 days ago

              So i looked in the blend file, and it seems i changed the texture map to this one at some point: https://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_rdr_product/WAC_GLD100_E000N1800_064P

              That one was better, and i also recall manually aligning the color map from the other Nasa site i linked before, just used photoshop offset the color map horizontally, sorry i was learning alot and didnt yet have a proper folder structure going, its also likely i made othe changes to the textures but i was moving fast and eager to get back to blender, i could likely send you the blend file along with those texures though, if you let me know an easy way to share it.

              • lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world
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                3 days ago

                Using a different height texture explains the different results. Odd, that the Arizona State University has more bumps than NASA at the same 64ppd resolution. Do you think they added noise to the NASA data? When I add noise to the height map in Blender, I can make it look like this.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    I’m always impressed by the craters, and think to myself how large or fast the asteroids must have been travelling