How to make an earth ? can someone help? I am new.

[divi]

http://area.autodesk.com/userdata/image/showcase/x/p7rf6-yyf9s-q53kp-7w409.jpg

I did this in softimage entirely.

What i did is :

-create a sphere surface which has earth texture map with a water texture map plugged in the mask of the layer. this is only to make the earth not have any highlight(only the ocean).

-sphere for clouds

-sphere for atmosphere which was dielectric/incidence shader to always appear -when the surface is hit by a light and not in the back when the earth has no light.

-a sphere for the glow.

-the stars were created with ice

how do you make this in houdini?

thanks a lot.

Edited October 31, 2010 by divi

[smaugthewyrm]

http://area.autodesk.com/userdata/image/showcase/x/p7rf6-yyf9s-q53kp-7w409.jpg

I did this in softimage entirely.

What i did is :

-create a sphere surface which has earth texture map with a water texture map plugged in the mask of the layer. this is only to make the earth not have any highlight(only the ocean).

-sphere for clouds

-sphere for atmosphere which was dielectric/incidence shader to always appear -when the surface is hit by a light and not in the back when the earth has no light.

-a sphere for the glow.

-the stars were created with ice

how do you make this in houdini?

thanks a lot.

you are asking for a full tutorial.

here are your textures.

18.64MB

http://www.keithdemele.com/images/forumposts/EarthTextures.rar

here is a tutorial on materials. see the rest of peter's lessons for the basics on modeling a sphere, setting up lights, and rendering with mantra.

http://vimeo.com/14092187

for more lessons also explore:

cmivfx.com

3dbuzz.com

cardanfx

good luck!