Creating Earth

by a.cangelosi

In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how we can create a realistic earth in 3ds max with no efforts. We’ll create different meshes for earth level and clouds level, then we’ll prepare planet material and cloud material using Standard shaders with some NASA maps, and basic 3ds max features as the falloff map, or the composite and color correction. At the end we’ll use the effect, (lens and grain), to add a little bit more realism.

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17 Responses to “Creating Earth”
  1. eddie
    Posts: 1

    awesome tut, keep it up man, this is was very helpfull for me

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     Aug 1, 2011 at 12:10 pm
  2. sam
    Posts: 4

    very cool – looking forward to this one!

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     Aug 1, 2011 at 3:54 pm
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Hi Sam,

      thanks ! We’ll prepare more space/planet related tutorials soon.

      So stay tuned for it

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       Aug 2, 2011 at 4:30 am
  3. ryan
    Posts: 2

    is this tutorial helpful for working for blender also?

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     Aug 3, 2011 at 1:54 am
  4. ryan
    Posts: 2

    hey buddy. i have to prepare 5 minute video in which i have to show all the aspects of multimedia which is as my multimedia project for this semester.and i have installed ubuntu10.04 and in ubuntu10.04 3ds max doesn’t install.and i don’t even know how to handle blender. can you help me out,if possibe?

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     Aug 3, 2011 at 3:44 am
  5. hawkeye134
    Posts: 209

    Thanks Mr.Cangelosi, I look forward to you making a Saturn at some point :)

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     Aug 7, 2011 at 4:23 am
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Hi,

      thanks for your post. Actually I’ve all the planets on my plan and some more detailed projects for Mars…..stay tuned for it.

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       Aug 8, 2011 at 12:10 am
  6. hawkeye134
    Posts: 209

    Thats great news Alessandro. I did make a Earth and Saturn inside of After effects with maps and solids, take a look when you have time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEhiFq6H8oc

    Again thanks for your hardwork and visual effects contribution to this site – great stuff :)

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     Aug 8, 2011 at 4:23 am
    • a.cangelosi
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      I checked your video, and I like it, so next time you can do it using 3ds max too ;)

      Thanks to you for the support !

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       Aug 8, 2011 at 8:01 am
  7. SAGAR MANALI
    Posts: 2

    really cool

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     Sep 24, 2011 at 7:23 am
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Hi Sagar,
      thanks, we are planning a complete video series to prepare more space related tutorials, more planets, more space environment and effects !

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       Sep 26, 2011 at 3:08 am
  8. MIHAI
    Posts: 7

    Verry nice tutorial.If you are planning to do more tuts about space, planets and space enviroment, I wait an tutorial how to make a realistic galaxy.

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     Dec 10, 2011 at 8:31 am
    • a.cangelosi
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      Hi, thanks for posting. Sure, we are planning more space related stuffs :) Hope you’ll like it

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       Dec 12, 2011 at 2:37 am
  9. kervin edward lara
    Posts: 1

    Great Tutorial! hope you can make more about milky way, galaxy with pflow.

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     Mar 9, 2012 at 6:33 am

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