Planet shader

[gokzor]

Ok I have seen the idea for this from another person, i did not copy any materials its all done from scratch but if anyone knows who else did this let me know so i can say thanks for the idea ;)

The planet shader uses vertex painting to lay down your land masses, water, ice ect. You have full control over ice colour and spec, ground, water (which is animated and has spec), 2 cloud layers (which are animated), lights from citys (colour and brightness) and also atmosphere colour and density... ill add more to this as i build it.

Heres some pics.

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/277/zinstance.jpg

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3426/zearth.jpg

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2536/zkindomofkamon.jpg

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6048/zpixie.jpg

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8109/zzagor705.jpg

Feel free to comment guys and thanks

Jody

[nvisiongameco]

wow that looks cool man.

[TheSpaceMan]

Thats really nice. Hmmm. Gives me some ideas. Could combine this with my planetarydata generator and populate a universe...

[DELTATHUND3R]

awsome matey...really impressive.

[gokzor]

Thanks guys much apreciated!

Iv now updated it added a lot more control and you can now make suns and moons too... also turn off clouds and atmosphere (also more control over the atmosphere. here take a look.

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/7862/zinstancev2.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7573/zmoon.jpg

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5480/zsun.jpg

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6580/zorion.jpg

[fallingbrickwork]

This is really fab! Brilliant Stuff.

Matt.

[Hboybowen]

any plans for this?

[TheSpaceMan]

You should add the possibility to make suns of diffrent strengths/colors as well. And it will be awesome, already is. but more awesomeish. :D

[Rhinokio]

i believe virtuosic http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=67107&highlight=planet+shader and
http://www.vimeo.com/7323255 he's always on polycount pimping crazy shaders,
yours looks nice as well

[gokzor]

fallingbrickwork - Cheers mate.

Hboybowen - Yeh ill be using it in a game.. but i plan to have it open enough to use in any projects.

TheSpaceMan - you already can do that its all built in to the shader check out bellow... :) You can pretty much do any colour/strenth ect.

Rhinokio - That could well be the guy ill have to give him a heads up at some point!

Any other sugestions are wellcome!

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/6360/zgreensun.jpg

[Piranhi]

I really like it, good work!

[Hboybowen]

are you releasing it for others eventually?

[gokzor]

Hboybowen - Yes deffinatly! I do want to get it finished and implemented into my own project first though if thats not too rude of me... :S

If anyone has any requests for similair shaders i could prob have a crack at them if its not to time consuming.

Jody

[gokzor]

Heres a couple of vids of it working just to show the animation. These all use the same vertex painting but with different vertex painting you could get even more interesting results

www.jodygallagher.co.uk/Files/Demo2.mp4

www.jodygallagher.co.uk/Files/Demo.mp4

Lemme know if the links work!

Jody

[Pleco]

Fantastic!

[DELTATHUND3R]

thats pretty awsome matey well done...

[KazeoHin]

Good start!

my suggestion: Use an If statement to sharpen up the edges of the vertex painting, maybe add a high-frequency fractal texture to the vertex shading output to add some tiny-scale variation. The edges of the 'land' and 'water' are WAY too fuzzy and smooth. Other than that, this looks purely awesome!

[gokzor]

Thanks guys really apreciate the help and comments!

KazeoHin - I think ill have to PM you about your ideas a bit later, Im not sure about the fractal texture you speak of :)

Also instead of starting a new thread this i thought id post some other work for this project in this one...

Jody

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/199/shipidea2.jpg
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/378/shipidea.jpg

[Rhinokio]

neat ship, tho it seems ifi you remove the wings it reminds me a lot of slave 1

[gokzor]

your right i didnt even notice although its far enough off it to not be plagiarism id say ;)

Jody

[Eildalior]

Nice work on shader. I like so much the second on the first page. I like when the work it is not like the reality... Fantastanic and futurist work.
Grat, have a good continuation !!!

[gokzor]

Thanks Eildalior! Heres some more work on the high poly.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5371/shipidea4.jpg

[UnspoiledWalnut]

It reminds me of a bee.

[gokzor]

Think im about done with the high poly...

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7769/shipidea5.jpg

[gokzor]

Nearly finished this i think...

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/4871/shipidea7.jpg

[Hboybowen]

when are you releasing the shader i need one to create a procedural universe im doing with UDK

[Hboybowen]

and what all did you use in your ship creation

[gokzor]

Well i would like the shader to be perfect first... i have a few more things i want to add to it first hopefully this weekend.

I used Max8, photoshop for the ship thats all.

Jody

[gokzor]

Im thinking about making a tutorial. Creating a model from scratch and getting it into unreal.. would there be any real need for one?

Oh yeh and feel free to crit the ship i can take it ;)

Jody

[Hboybowen]

i dont rly care about the ship nee that shader more than anything ^__^

[gokzor]

right thanks! the shader isnt that complex if you can make a game you can make the shader or you can wait!

[DELTATHUND3R]

love ya hardsurface model matey ya wipped that up pretty quickly well done..Nice texture style aswell.
Any tutorial is a good tutorial..I dont use maya or max but a tut would be interesting.

[marilol]

Wow, thats some pretty awesome stuff. Even though it looks nothing like it the ship reminds of Serenity from Firefly for some reason :D

[GRoss]

The ship is - if I may say this on these forums "kick-ass"

[gokzor]

Cheers guys, a few have pointed out the fact that the wires stand out a bit too much so i have two different wings now and the top ones are plain.

[Rhinokio]

one thing about the ship that kinda bugs me is its really loaded with squares and rectangles, i'd try and get some more interesting shapes,

[gokzor]

I do understand what you mean about the shapes.. but my thinking behind it was thats the "aesthetic" this race has. Im going to do a few races, and do a few different looks to them... unless it just looks "out of place or wrong".... hmm

Jody

[gokzor]

How does this grab you... better?

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3465/shipzor.jpg

[danimal']

I really like it a lot, but if I had to make a crit:

I like 3 out of 4 perspectives, but the front angle perspective (the bottom right) looks kinda bleh to me. I think the reason is it looks kinda uniform/chubby from that perspective. Personally, I would taper from back to front (front slightly more narrow) and bottom to top (top more narrow). Pinch in the front and the top a bit and it might break up that sorta boring silhouette. Just my 2 cents, otherwise I love it.

danimal

[gokzor]

Ok iv put the shader up for download check...

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?p=27044576#post27044576

For details.

Thanks
Jody

[Hboybowen]

Oh yeah helps me alot:D

[gokzor]

No worries dude!

[DELTATHUND3R]

Thanks for the shader very nice indeed :).

[gokzor]

No probs! check the site soon for the model tutorial i have done 5 videos creating a basic model in max, creating the high poly for the normal map, texturing it and then taking it into unreal. Ill get those online as soon as iv added the voice over...

Also if you guys could share any cool planets you make that would be ace, just post pics in here! cheers :)

Jody

[gokzor]

Ok the videos are up.. done in one evening o_O go take a look on my site if your interested.

Jody

[danimal']

Awesome tuts, any chance you're going to make the other ones with voice overs as well? I'm particularly intersted in the texturing parts since that's what I'm newest to and following exactly what's going on in photoshop can be a little tough. Appreciated regardless, very nice!

danimal

[gokzor]

Its tough finding some time to do the voice overs but ill try and do some over the hollidays for you! cheers mate.

jody

[danimal']

Its tough finding some time to do the voice overs but ill try and do some over the hollidays for you! cheers mate.

Oh sure, we're all taking it easy over the break, was just curious if we could get some more voice overs. Otherwise you can't really read the text so it's like watchin some guy work which is cool but ...

Right now I'm cheating and just doing a quick paint up in Zbrush with poly painting, but you're doing the more traditional work-flow along with some nice little tricks and tips that'd it'd be fun to follow. Whenever you get the chance, it's all good if its not until the new year. Cheers ;)

danimal

[gokzor]

Dont wanna start a new thread and this is all for the same project anyhow...

More spaceship/robot work

Jody

http://jodygallagher.co.uk/images/MyArt/ship2.jpg

[gokzor]

small update

http://jodygallagher.co.uk/images/MyArt/ship22.jpg

[Lynn]

Wow, love the ship. :)

[KazeoHin]

With about five minutes of tweaking the shader I was able to make a very cool looking land/ocean borders. PM me and I'll send you the file, Gokzor.

http://sites.google.com/site/kazeohin/home/planetshadetweak.jpg

[gokzor]

Yeh sure fire it to my email adress ill have a look, but to be honest for the game i was creating the soft slightly shadowed edge to the terain was what i was looking for. But looks good man i like it!

[gokzor]

Some work on the high poly for this new ship. Hope no one minds a wip thread like this ?

http://jodygallagher.co.uk/images/MyArt/ship23.jpg

[itzexor]

Some work on the high poly for this new ship. Hope no one minds a wip thread like this ?


Ships looks very good, wish I could do stuff like that in 3ds but dont have the slighest idea how.

[gokzor]

thanks man its not hard just work at it! There are plenty amazing artists out there you should have a look around polycount and games artisans!

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/5400/ship25.jpg

[geodav]

i must admit very impressive and very fast

[S ha d]

Amazing stuff !

Also, thank you for your tutorials ! Very helpfull !
:o

[DELTATHUND3R]

looking great nice..pump the wip shots out :):)...great too watch the progress.

[gokzor]

Cheers guys

geodav - Thanks for the kind words man! i have been told i work fast before i dont think i do though... well i dont rush anything i dont think...

S ha d - thanks and no probs!

DELTATHUND3R - ill keep them coming ;)

Jody

[gokzor]

Little mock up i did...

http://vimeo.com/8344320

Any animators, concept artists, SFX artists, 3d artists or scripters out there fire me a PM we could do with some help on this!

[DELTATHUND3R]

Thats just wikked...

[TheSpaceMan]

Exactly what kind of gameplay are we talking about here, exploration, combat, multiplayer DM?

[gokzor]

Cant really say that as i dont want other folks taking ideas now do I ;) but cheers.

[Hboybowen]

just be ready for ppl comparing you to AFF planetstorm or something. People like to compare other peoples work to guess what other peoples work lol.

[lordofduct]

I like OP's planets, really nice stuff, so I thought I'd post this here.

A while back (like 2 years ago) my buddy and I were working on a now dead game for a competition. We were creating cutesy little planets with a cartoony look. So I wrote a random planet generator that queried a database of textures and some random perlin noise maps... I'd soften the perlin noise maps (so they didn't look absurd) and layer the textures to get all kinds of different planets:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v333/lordofduct/Pictures/video%20game/orbitalshaders01.jpg

[gokzor]

cool lordofduct i like em!

Hboybowen- nahh its cool the game is a lot simpler than planetstorm trust me, and Id be happy if that was the case anyhow they are a good team!

Jody

[danimal']

Just watched your little mockup, looks fantastic man. The ship came out beautifully.

danimal