Much better, yes! :D Could maybe use some more lighting perhaps, but that's just to taste, and I guess it entirely depends on the intended population of the planet. Another topic entirely: I made this for REKT: http://talvieno.com/rekt/img/maniri.png Niiiiice, that makes me think of Quake 3 for som...

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Lovely planet, HS! As to the lights, just pretend it's bioluminescent forests full of elf-people and you're good to go.

Har, thanks A little more tweaking of the displacement mapping on the lights and it's a bit more sensible.

Aaaaand I cracked it! It was a bit of a fudge, but I'm not bothered.... It works! I still need to twiddle with the lights themselves as they're a bit 'not right', but that's fine. At least they're only showing on the nightside

Holy shit. I thought it was deader than disco

I am a bit busy these days, so not tried much but I must say until now I am not very successful. Large part of the problem is that I cannot have nice previews like Silver showed, my previews in the equation editor of Vue are about 5-10mm square only so it is impossible to see anything - the only wa...

Heh, the planet is exactly the same as it was during my competition entry, except the lights.

All I need to do is link the texture to the direction of the main light source and I'm there, but the Vue function editor is pretty damn complex. Powerful, though

I did so more playing tonight - I'm almost there. If I can just get the function editor to take into account the direction of the sunlight and change the transparency of the city lights to 100% (or the colour to grey, maybe), then I've cracked it!

This tutorial might have some ideas....

I'm ready for this one too!

My body is ready

Hmmm, nope, too expensive.

But I'll have a further play later. It could also work for starfields!

Ta' for the file, I had a tinker with it and the lighting does work well - I'm gonna' try and apply it to the same areas as where the land is.... There's got to be a way. You definitely got closer than I did! :twisted: I think I might've found a way to use it to generate explosions. I'm just doing a...

Daaaamn, they've come out really well! Just as good as expected, well done :clap: I particularly like the blue one with the more solid exhaust! The problem with changing direction is a bit annoying, but I guess it doesn't matter if the ship's flying straight! Might be solvable using the particle sys...

Daaaaaaamn, they look amazing :twisted: I wonder how the dust effect'd do when animated..... Probably expensive to render, but it'd look awesome when the ship's moving! :squirrel: I must twiddle with the atmosphere settings more. I currently roll with 90% of the light coming from the sun already, I ...

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I was partway though a story but it was a bit boring, so I've gone a different route. Just doing a decent quality render now then I'll get my stuff posted :twisted: Looking forward... I am a bit silent lately as I had to spent 2 weeks at my father’s place in emergency (he is doing well again but it...