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Hi.
I've been working on a spaceship (in another thread)
I've been thinking a lot about backgrounds. Here are some solutions I've played with lately.
First of all I recommend this tutorial for Gimp users.
http://mygimptutorial.com/the-ultimate- ... t-tutorial"
Here are some quick planets that I can use on billboards in the background. The reddish one needs an atmosphere & shadow still. The originals are much higher resolution. Interestingly, high resolution images of rock surfaces work superbly as the textures. These can be easily found for free on line. Next is a repeating texture (again much scaled down in resolution). This was made in Gimp too. I recommend this tutorial. My Image doesn't do it justice.
http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/arti ... .3811.html" This can be mapped on a huge inverted hemisphere behind your subject.
I'm really interested in any of your solutions!

may yrs ago i saw simple stand alone app for creating space... just stars, fogs, galaxies, etc. Cant remember the name exactly, maybe i will find it when i get back home.

That's really cool! I'll have a look at the tutorials.


And after seeing that second image I just couldn't resist posting this:

EXACTLY just what I thought! Frying pans!!

I'm liking this thread =)

MikomDude wrote:That's really cool! I'll have a look at the tutorials.


And after seeing that second image I just couldn't resist posting this:

Actually, these are perfect. I wish I could get these at higher resolution. I should go look in my kitchen with my camera.

Yep, I thought the same thing when I found this image. Easiest and cheapest way to create planets, noone will know the difference

Darn and I thought one of those was UrAnis....LOL

Har.... rude images to follow....