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I don't know enough about CS3 (I usually use GIMP when I DO do images) to get it right.
I hope you do try it, I would love to see what you do with it.
My problem is finding the textures I like that look good to apply to the sphere without it looking unreal. I should probably just try a random texture and go from there but I still need to find one that makes me happy.
I'm going to try it out. Also for any future tutorials Turbosquid has a "Max" from before autodesk got a hold of 3ds max. Gmax is the programs name it's pretty much the exact same as 3ds max 8 so yeah spread the word to those who don't have the money to buy 3ds and don't want to pirate.
Also that little 3ds max thing is something that seems to have gone unsaid with space artists. Without your tutorial I never would have guessed that you people used max in that method if not only occasionally.
I remember Gmax, thats why I got 3ds, as back in the day I was planning on becoming a part of a C&C generals mod team and wanted to learn how to model and skin, never got around to it, but I decided to try it out and really REALLY enjoyed the outcome. I also make asteroids in 3dsmax, make a sphere, add a noise thingy ma bober mess around with it, get some nice asteroid impact crater bit maps, go throw some of them onto the asteroid using displace and voila. Rotate until you find a good side and render.
Well 3dsmax isn't used by space artists much.. I don't think so anyway. You will see Taenaron putting 3dsmax into his credits sometimes but I always believed it was for asteroids.
I was actually looking to create 3d planets and make animations etc. at the time I discovered this technique and I just tried it.
Some of my works I got lazy on and just spherized in photoshop. But that was before I got my new computer.
If you have access to terragen I suggest you try it, just zoom out, change the feature size, slap a bunch of random colours into the surface layers and render 1 or 2 as high as you can in the free version then you can clone tool them together in photoshop or a similar program.
I'll stick with learning 3ds max before I buy terragen (heh heh heh) to make it so it would be worth the purchase of both 3ds and terragen. And Photoshop is a similar thing but i can't decide if I like GIMP better or if CS3/4 is worth my purchase. Or perhaps i'll use elements which came with my tablet lol I can't decide!!!!
But yeah I have no doubt you'll be seeing more stuff coming out of me xP
(ROCK ON)
lol
I cant wait to see some work, and 3dsmax isnt that hard to learn if you are just doing planets, make a sphere, make it have 200 segments, open materials, throw your texture on, bump map it with that texture by 10, and boom.. render..
BUT, if you think you will just use the spherize filter more anyway, then don't worry about 3dsmax...
Its up to you though lol.
Sorry about that.
Thank you for the comment, I hope they do.