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Published: 2003-04-12 16:55:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 36425; Favourites: 915; Downloads: 5467
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Full View Highly Recommended.i havent submitted anything for over a month, so i decided to submit somewhat of a preview of my current work. As you can see, im learning how to make rings for planets, since not a lot of people are doing space scenes with ringed planets; plus i wanted to play around and learn something new.
an easy way wouldve been so simply make rings in photoshop, then set them to low opacity; however theres no fun in that, and since im not trying to achieve a photorealistic look, that wasnt a choice.
instead i turned to 3dstudio max and started learning the deal with particle systems. and after 3 days of experiments with photoshop, i finally got a look what im satisfied with. i think this is pretty good for a first try, and i like the way its coming along.
the final version should be finished soon.
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It probably is. Look at the smaller stars in the background, they're low res also. Back then, not everyone had broadband so I had to knock down the quality more than I would today
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Texture on planet is quite poor, but the ring is superb 
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Isn't it amazing how far the standards have come in 7 years?
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I dunno what's more epic, this pic or your avatar!
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WOW
simply breathtaking
mind if I make this my wallpaper?
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Congrats on the DD. You're famous for your rings.
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I have a planet tutorial in my gallery and a semi-rudimentary ring tutorial as well
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srr for the late reply
thx i will check it out
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i'm reminded of pitch black when seeing this.
LOVED THAT MOVIE!!!!
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Hmmm I'm gonna have to watch that movie again
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amazing movie; made my own gaia online spoof of it; called it "adventures in another world"
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You've been looking in to my head again
When I was writing the other day, this is just what I was thinking about pre-battle.
Great image
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Unless "the other day" is 7 years ago, then I think you were looking into mine
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This pic makes me want fire up my 360 and play more Mass Effect 2. Awesome!
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This was made all the way back in 2003, yet you only JUST got a DD?! People must not realize how awesome this picture really is!
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Apparently, it's an oldie but a goodie
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reminds me of one of the planets from the movie 'pitch black'
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I owe all my inspiration to anything that is similar that i create to you.
Best ring planet I've ever seen, besides of course the pictures on Nasa
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Just avoid ring tutorials and techniques that use the spiral tool. It has been recently been discovered that some rings are slightly spherical but they never look right when done in photoshop that way
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O_O your kidding me.
I literally just finished a ring planet (not the whole piece yet) with the spiral way.
Well, if the spiral way isn't good, what is?
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Well you can post it anyways, but the way that works for me (shy of 3d particle technique like in this one), you can do it simply in photoshop and you can end up with october from here [link]
For this you start with just a regular black circle. Then you add an outer glow and inner glow but set it to dissolve so that you end up with the little noise particles. Set any color that you want, this can be changed later. Once you have something that you like, you can flatten the circle, duplicate it and shrink it. You should repeat this with different circles (change the size of the glows for thickness) and this should point you in the right direction. Of course, make them darker, change colors and tones and you should end up with something that looks right.
I think I'm gonna write a rings tutorial
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