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It may not be the most artistically breathtaking thing to show in your inbox, but don't under-estimate it - these planets were made using NO image-based textures at all! virtually made from nothing but clever use of filters and functions alone!
That's right, 100% pure Vue work right here
The function editor (not that I'm pro at this challenging yet powerful aspect of Vue but have spent hours experiemnting recently) can be used to create some stunning materials as these here which when applied to a series of layered spheres, can make very realistic planets! So imagine how much cooler this would be if I did work my Photoshop magic over it, but that would defeat the purpose of my test here 
Some of the advantages of fully procedural materials include:
- Uses WAY less memory, each planet-object and their materials don't even use one MB of space (lol, bit of a pun in there)
- Dosn't get that "distortion" at the polar areas of the sphere that image-based textures do, so these planets can be rotated and viewed from any angle without weird "polar suction"
- Higher detail, since image-mapped textures lose quality fast as you approach closer, these do too an extent and become a bit blurry, but not in an unnatural "pixellated" way
- Easier to edit, rather than making a new map for a new planet all over again, the proportion of land to sea can be easily be changed, as can the colours of the planets, the level of cloud-cover and how swirly they are and so on.
This is a preview showing 2 of 4 planets I have made for a high-grade resource pack for Vue users that I'll intend on selling on Cornucopia (gotta get a store account first
) like most things there, it won't be expensive, but since this is an original idea that practically every Vue artist will wnat, hopefully it can reel in some pocket money for me, whilist giving Vue user's the best planets available to use in their sci-fi scenes (Most of the space-related stuff there at the moment is really dissapointing 
)
A far bigger (and dearer) pack is in the making, it will contain these four planets plus a shitload more! things like Ringed Gas Giants, Suns and even nebulae that I have made directly in Vue - for Vue
Might move to scraps later, depends on how many faves it gets (I don't think it would get much
)
That's right, 100% pure Vue work right here
The function editor (not that I'm pro at this challenging yet powerful aspect of Vue but have spent hours experiemnting recently) can be used to create some stunning materials as these here which when applied to a series of layered spheres, can make very realistic planets! So imagine how much cooler this would be if I did work my Photoshop magic over it, but that would defeat the purpose of my test here Some of the advantages of fully procedural materials include:
- Uses WAY less memory, each planet-object and their materials don't even use one MB of space (lol, bit of a pun in there)
- Dosn't get that "distortion" at the polar areas of the sphere that image-based textures do, so these planets can be rotated and viewed from any angle without weird "polar suction"
- Higher detail, since image-mapped textures lose quality fast as you approach closer, these do too an extent and become a bit blurry, but not in an unnatural "pixellated" way
- Easier to edit, rather than making a new map for a new planet all over again, the proportion of land to sea can be easily be changed, as can the colours of the planets, the level of cloud-cover and how swirly they are and so on.
This is a preview showing 2 of 4 planets I have made for a high-grade resource pack for Vue users that I'll intend on selling on Cornucopia (gotta get a store account first
) like most things there, it won't be expensive, but since this is an original idea that practically every Vue artist will wnat, hopefully it can reel in some pocket money for me, whilist giving Vue user's the best planets available to use in their sci-fi scenes (Most of the space-related stuff there at the moment is really dissapointing )A far bigger (and dearer) pack is in the making, it will contain these four planets plus a shitload more! things like Ringed Gas Giants, Suns and even nebulae that I have made directly in Vue - for Vue
Might move to scraps later, depends on how many faves it gets (I don't think it would get much
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I know it's an old thread, but I stumbled here through Google. I can't believe there aren't more tutorials for this kind of thing.
I've had problems with Vue 'breaking down' with large spheres though; it seems to have a units issue (I can't believe they don't use floating point).
I've had to make my secondary planets really small (a thousand KM) and position them very close to the 'main' world.
What kind of distances were you using for this stuff? I know you lost the file, but do you remember?
Would have loved to see a pack on the Vue store.
== John ==
I've had problems with Vue 'breaking down' with large spheres though; it seems to have a units issue (I can't believe they don't use floating point).
I've had to make my secondary planets really small (a thousand KM) and position them very close to the 'main' world.
What kind of distances were you using for this stuff? I know you lost the file, but do you remember?
Would have loved to see a pack on the Vue store.
== John ==