Procedural Planets in Blender - TUTORIAL

[@Demigodish4o3]

First I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could never generate a planetside. But then I spent so many nights thinking how I'd get it done. And I was wrong Blender sure got pretty strong. And now you're back From outer space I just clicked this thumbnail to see your sexy mustache face. I shouldn't have bought a Maya key, should have learned Blender cuz it's free. If I'd known you'd make tutorials I'd have saved some sweet cash money.

[@CriticalGiants]

I shaved it recently actually, it was growing into my eyes, this comment made me smile though :D

[@bruhbroseph]

Bravo!

[@blue3d830]

This comment deserves more likes!

[@keetharris2010]

😂😂😂

[@mumbaikachallenge5526]

Aaye❤️

[@kravoh]

I will watch your career with great interest

[@carrotylemons1190]

I have genuinely been waiting for something like this

[@BlackfireStudios_Lost]

You have no idea how much you helped me out on this one. A year ago I didn't think I would ever be doing this. Thank you

[@Ren.Leader]

I'm baffled at how simple this process actually is. Super cool.

[@killer271007]

Your channel is gonna be huge. These tutorials are so helpful. Thank you!!!

[@JoshLoweSpace]

This is one of the best planet textures I have seen! Thanks!

[@asteroidhunting7340]

you really need an overlay that shows which keys you are pressing! There are moments like at 4:32 where you just click and it makes an entire new node and quickly links it together but have no idea how you did that... for just one example. But love the video, keep it up!

[@benj4022]

I don't know if that was your question but he pressed on Shift + Ctrl + Left Mouse at 4:32

[@_Bora-dj8vv]

You also need to enable`` node wrangler`` Addon and Shift+Ctrl and Left click on the node connects it directly to the material output.

[@CHUMMUGGINS]

@@benj4022 omg thank you!

[@somnathbiswas3405]

literally loved the way u teach..once again thank u for a smooth tutorial..it really helped as a beginner..keep making this tuts and videos..we will definately support u..love from INDIA

[@astrologiespace]

Very clear instructions! Easy to understand and follow. Very good tutorial, thanks for that. Will do the extended version, just bought it. :-)

[@CriticalGiants]

Great to hear!

[@pandoraslove840]

BEST TUTORIAL EVER🥹 it was easy to follow and still give room for a creative freedom my plants look so beautiful, also, your voice is so nice it’s like a fantasy story voice but for tutorials lol I love it

[@jean-pierrelannak3601]

J'aime beaucoup cette manière de créé des textures, le résultat est bluffant. Merci pour cette approche, ta voix est superbe ce qui ne gâche rien bien au contraire. I really like this way of creating textures, the result is amazing. Thank you for this approach, your voice is superb which does not spoil anything on the contrary.

[@CHKNSkratch]

I can't wait, gonna make some nice planets EDIT: I didn't save

[@CHKNSkratch]

YEAS

[@animationspace8550]

I feel your pain brother

[@CHKNSkratch]

@@animationspace8550 ima try again when school is done today

[@apptreeline]

fck those bots

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

ooooo

[@anakay1184]

This channel deserves the world

[@jeffhowe2892]

Thanks for a superb tutorial. I added a bump node from the ramp output to normal input and it made the clouds "rougher"

[@-.rio.-]

really good tutorial honestly, explained in great detail how to create a beautiful planet in both cycles and eevee. thanks man

[@Digitalman271]

"Have you ever wanted to be a god? And create planets with your bare hands??" Dude that's literally why I'm here.

[@realastropulse]

Really cool, this is about the setup i landed on when I made some planet shaders a month ago.

[@ajojen6346]

Thanks for the tutorial! I just started in blender and I feel like this video helped me understand better how a few of the nodes work, which is really nice. In other tutorials I've watched, I've used nodes like the mix RGB and color ramp, but I wasn't really understanding what they were doing until now. And this turned out looking super cool!

[@andrewFJ]

Great thank you, William! I've purchased your full tutprial and I'm immensely enjoying it! : )

[@RSpudieD]

That was really interesting and a very well done tutorial! It's to-the-point and you explain it pretty well! I searched for how to make planets just out of boredom and now you make it seem so easy that I'll have to give it a shot sometime! Nicely done!

[@seekpodcast]

You’re like the bob ross of blender, and I love it

[@wheatlysparble7900]

This is the best blender planet tutorial on youtube !!

[@agungpradana5776]

great tutorial, detailed and easy to follow. Keep up the great works!!!

[@ameba1186]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! As a begginer in the 3d world, I never thought i could be able to do this :) thanks so much ;)

[@konradswart4069]

*WOW! NICE!* 'Painting' a planet in Blender! The way this tutorial is made, reminds me a lot of the painting lectures of Bob Ross!

[@daredanny]

love this video . It's give me understanding of texturing . now i smarter then i was

[@TheSpacePlaceYT]

If you want more accurate clouds or you want to play with the actual rotation of the clouds, press Command + T or Control + T on the noise texture for the clouds and/or textures. You can also make the noise texture 4D to have essentially the same settings but with a "Seed" factor.

[@nikelombambo]

This was awesome. Following the tutorial while doing it with Blender Octane and using the Octane nodes. It's been a challenge but worked out in the end I think

[@notsampletext3740]

Excellent tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for!

[@Anor-Londo-17]

Super! For a week I was looking for how to make an atmosphere on Cycles.

[@hydrobaleinos3410]

Excellent tutorial ! Thank you very much !

[@LaszloIvanyi]

Nice video, thanks. I'd like to have seen the textures baked out and added to Unreal as well.

[@sicfxmusic]

Came for procedural planets, ended up learning scientifically accurate planets. 😍😍 So cool man!! 🔥🔥

[@__Wormhole]

You are my guru now!

[@SebastianPortilloMusic]

Great Tutorial! Well done and thanks!!

[@shadisherif9332]

Amazing tutorial, Thank you so much

[@AndyWalsh]

Pro tip. For a less realistic but better shadow quality (note the weird double shadow in Eevee), use a spot light and stick a secondary fill spot on the opposite side of the 'sun' spotlight. Then try to catch them in the planet's water reflection.

[@lordmortem4806]

It's a really good tutorial. Very easy to follow.

[@CriticalGiants]

Glad to hear :)

[@zdtuttauniversity2715]

you killed this! Thank you CG!!!

[@simonbangart]

It's brilliant William! So cool!

[@JohnBelley86]

Thank you for obliging us, love how this turned out.

[@claidisong4805]

Excellent tutorial. Please, make more and often. Thanks.

[@CriticalGiants]

Why thank you

[@Bxxmzilla]

Bro you are the best! Thank you so much for this video. Subscribed 😃

[@CriticalGiants]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Soul-gf9vv]

I am so glad you are the first planet tutorial I clicked on, cuz not only is your method cool but you're also hot which makes it easy to follow. 🙈❤️

[@activemotionpictures]

Another great video!! Marvelous.

[@3d_hive295]

What a great tutorial ! Very nice and easy to follow ⚡️thanks !

[@oweryavuz]

2:55 - 4:31 ctrl+shift+left mouse

[@ninimuro]

Thank you!!!!!

[@AlwingValenzuelaFuentes]

such a good tutorial! thanks broo

[@MrCmoididi]

thx for this awsome tutorial

[@CriticalGiants]

No problem!

[@Funeer]

best first 5 seconds of a video ever

[@kevinhealy8436]

Thoughts on gas giant atmospheres? I know it's a much harder texture to make look good, but I wonder if you've found a node setup that works for you?

[@CriticalGiants]

Hi Kevin, I haven't gotten around to them yet, but my initial idea for it would be to greate a color ramp in the z direction, then create a couple of layers, and then mix in a noise with a high distortion, I will most likely do a version 2 of planets at some point :)

[@kronos548]

ive had decent success with using a gradient for the vector on a noise texture as a base

[@AhmedNassef]

Wow...I like your use of volumetrics!

[@longyuanchuan]

This is awesome man!

[@trashmusic69]

perfect thank you :)

[@ascensionvibe]

Really nice tutorial!

[@janxyc]

Thank you!

[@bishoppess9637]

Awesome. So helpful. Thank you!

[@CriticalGiants]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Feltare]

What do you think about making planets with sections? Such as a tidal locked planet with a hot and cold side with a neutral strip in the middle or just layers of different terrain types

[@CriticalGiants]

In our planets tutorial on gumroad we go through making an earth like planet and there we do a layered approach with poles, grasslands and desert in the middle. But we are working on something that combines map making and planet making ;)

[@biptya_animates]

Deifnately enjoyed the tutorial

[@spartandude9864]

You are amazing mate, great tutorial

[@iamyakob]

I like the way that you use for make it 😊

[@marly1017]

This tutorial is amazing I will probably be able to recreate it in a game engine disincluding the atmosphere though cause volmutrics are really hard

[@societesimulator]

Hi ! You can replace volumetrics with layer weight being the factor of a mix shader whiwh mix a diffuse bsdf (blueish) and transparent bsdf !

[@marly1017]

@@societesimulator I don't think that unity has that... I am learning how to code shaders rn so I may be able to do something similar after learning more

[@societesimulator]

@@marly1017 I think it’s called Fresnel :)

[@marly1017]

@@societesimulator I'll check it out

[@VadaeAmoga22]

i was trying to follow it but around 3:56 its not connected to the principal node anymore and goes off somewhere else. where does it go and how to i follow that? other than that i am finding it a great tutorial so far. i am following it step by step and its awesome!

[@iliamischuk2669]

Thank you very much for sharing this with us.

[@kgfkdjgfodkjopkfg]

Thank you for this tutorial.

[@y4sentel471]

At the beginning 2:54 you used a short cut to connect the noise texture, I couldn't find out what you pressed and what it was connected to.

[@Elias-dx2qk]

u do an amazing work

[@thirdatelier8085]

Thanks man!

[@alihansahin5578]

Thank you for the tutorial sir

[@LoopX]

This is fckin awesome dude. Good job

[@CriticalGiants]

Thanks a ton!

[@donut4384]

this was my first ever tutorial that I watched and it was very well explained for a idiot like me

[@gregoryhause00]

wow, that's amazing! 😁

[@tintren]

your voice is so chilllllllllllll

[@tvs3497]

Nicely done.

[@SirForwyn]

This was an amazing tutorial, thank you.

[@CriticalGiants]

You're very welcome!

[@toters911]

@Critical Giants if you are wondering why your background is doing that layering thing its because your light is to bright for your camera (i believe), iv found it fixed it with just moving the light back a little bit.

[@taliesinriver]

He's using a sun lamp, and if anything it's not bright enough - volumetric atmospheres just don't work very well in eevee.

[@robestey5628]

Very cool. Thank you

[@strongstonks7699]

0:00 general kenobi

[@No1Idle]

Thanks for the amazing tutorial, only a question, if i use cycles instead of EEVEE i do not have the the shadow options for the clouds, any work around?

[@GateJTube50]

Bravo for this tuto..!

[@photoluke1499]

All this tutorial taught me is that I need a proper graphics card!

[@rii7550]

eevee doesnt require much graphical power and can produce very similar results

[@jeanlubtchansky]

Thanks for the tips! What about using a Layer Waight>Fresnel for the atmosphere instead of the spherical gradient?

[@CriticalGiants]

I tried, it was actually more difficult to control I think, the spherical gives you a more linear approach, where the fresnel, in my experience was kinda jumping all around with values. And it wasn't actually cutting the volume correctly, but give it a go, let me know if it is nice :D

[@jeanlubtchansky]

@@CriticalGiants The Fresnel is what I already do for the atmo to control an emission, maybe not as realistic but makes a cool stylized effect. I'll try your method to compare. Good approach for the clouds much better than mine ;-)

[@lonewalker5435]

Hi! very nice tutorial. I wonder if i ca render as an animation to have the clouds animated cause i wanna put it like a background for a zbrush sculpt

[@CriticalGiants]

if you attach the cloud noice vector to a mapping node and a texture cordinate node, then you can animate the location x, y or z and then it looks like the clouds are moving :) Hope this helps

[@lonewalker5435]

@@CriticalGiants I will try! Thanks a lot!

[@mahdihajdahmen5793]

this was so useful thanks!

[@KLImage2k]

Thank You so much!

[@keetharris2010]

Awesome Tutorial!!!!

[@nehu3369]

really good tutorial

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

This the easiest way to create atmosphere planet... And plus, this atmosphere has a sunset or sunrise effect on terminator line area between sunlight and dark side!!! Because it's really important... :)

[@RaiHari6426]

Thank You So Much!!!

[@starmeyproductions]

nice thanks bro for the tutorial!

[@CriticalGiants]

Any time

[@SaiyedR]

Nice movie project model.

[@sudipto30]

Excellent tutorial

[@HemantSingh-wr2sq]

Thank you so much.

[@dom-]

I loved the video. I'd like to know how to achieve crater-like surfaces, can this be achieved by just noise?

[@taliesinriver]

try voronoi textures - they can form randomized grids of circular gradients, which you can then control with colour ramps.

[@melobear6071]

This is amazing!

[@camilosalvadorbatho]

Awesome!

[@Frostensen]

Great tutorial. One thing though. My volume mass is signifficantly smaller than sphere size. I have my scales applied but it's still very small = I have to scale the sphere up considerably to get the volume to be the same size as the other base sphere.

[@mumbaikachallenge5526]

Love it❤️❤️❤️

[@_benk]

Amazing thank you so much!