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

[@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

[@Ren.Leader]

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

[@JoshLoweSpace]

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

[@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!

[@realastropulse]

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

[@seekpodcast]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@agungpradana5776]

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

[@shadisherif9332]

Amazing tutorial, Thank you so much

[@hydrobaleinos3410]

Excellent tutorial ! Thank you very much !

[@andrewFJ]

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

[@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!

[@-.rio.-]

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

[@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

[@__Wormhole]

You are my guru now!

[@simonbangart]

It's brilliant William! So cool!

[@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 ;)

[@JohnBelley86]

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

[@Anor-Londo-17]

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

[@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. 🙈❤️

[@claidisong4805]

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

[@CriticalGiants]

Why thank you

[@Funeer]

best first 5 seconds of a video ever

[@MrCmoididi]

thx for this awsome tutorial

[@CriticalGiants]

No problem!

[@biptya_animates]

Deifnately enjoyed the tutorial

[@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.

[@AhmedNassef]

Wow...I like your use of volumetrics!

[@daredanny]

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

[@thirdatelier8085]

Thanks man!

[@oweryavuz]

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

[@ninimuro]

Thank you!!!!!

[@tvs3497]

Nicely done.

[@tintren]

your voice is so chilllllllllllll

[@robestey5628]

Very cool. Thank you

[@AlwingValenzuelaFuentes]

such a good tutorial! thanks broo

[@richedge8667]

Nice work. I don't know if you plan on doing another planet tutorial? I've made a procedral planet pretty successfully including displacement to raise the land mass a little. For the clouds I'm trying to achieve a volume cloud layer that can be viewed from above or below, like from outer space or from ground level. Right now I have clouds touching the ground and reaching right up to the border of the sphere ending with a hard edge, so.. not looking too good at the mo. Now trying several node combo's like Texture Coordinate - Object to Vector into Gradient Texture (set to Spherical) then factor to factor into Colour Ramp.. trying to find a gradient, ramp or whatever that will hollow out the clouds inside the sphere leaving an outer layer which tapers off gradually into outer space - if that makes sense. IDK if I should maybe hollow the cloud sphere out like boolean it with another sphere? Thanks for what you're doing, looks great. Trying to get something I can zoom into, fly beneath the atmosphere and then back out.

[@CriticalGiants]

Hi there, sounds super awesome, we demonstrate our method for making volumetric clouds in our Gumroad Tutorial. We might do a follow up tutorial at some point, but we have a long list of other topics to go through before that :D

[@Elias-dx2qk]

u do an amazing work

[@bishoppess9637]

Awesome. So helpful. Thank you!

[@CriticalGiants]

Glad it was helpful!

[@KLImage2k]

Thank You so much!

[@GateJTube50]

Bravo for this tuto..!

[@SaiyedR]

Nice movie project model.

[@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 ;)

[@nehu3369]

really good tutorial

[@iamyakob]

I like the way that you use for make it 😊

[@sillyfella2009]

Thanks

[@gregoryhause00]

wow, that's amazing! 😁

[@HemantSingh-wr2sq]

Thank you so much.

[@RaiHari6426]

Thank You So Much!!!

[@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... :)

[@donut4384]

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

[@kgfkdjgfodkjopkfg]

Thank you for this tutorial.

[@starmeyproductions]

nice thanks bro for the tutorial!

[@CriticalGiants]

Any time

[@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

[@MeownaMeow]

Color Ramps OP

[@jackle7896]

I accidentally deleted the Planet Material and wasn't able to bring it back. I'll try this tutorial again when my motivation is back

[@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

[@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?

[@mahdihajdahmen5793]

this was so useful thanks!

[@spartandude9864]

You are amazing mate, great tutorial

[@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!

[@trashmusic69]

perfect thank you :)

[@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.

[@ScraggyDogg]

Many thanks

[@mumbaikachallenge5526]

Love it❤️❤️❤️

[@daniboiyy]

now everyone can be a celestial!

[@K_Disk]

A little fast for me but otherwise straight forward and to the point I did enjoy it tho great job!👍

[@keetharris2010]

Awesome Tutorial!!!!

[@adrinuk_gamedev]

Thank you su much! :D

[@KikoDoesCG]

epic!

[@heman9896]

Thanks man

[@ss-oq9pc]

What about adding craters?

[@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!

[@kaibe5241]

Now how do I do this programatically? I need to generate 1000s of planets for my game, and I've been looking at solutions such as Three.js - but the output from what you're doing here is just stunning. So it would be great to use blender to generate the various textures and maps, and then export these for use in my game with three.js

[@darthvader5145]

exellent tutorial +1 subscriber :)

[@melobear6071]

This is amazing!

[@janxyc]

Thank you!

[@andromeda5242]

i cant understand why, but my atmosphere is completely transparent if i set the end at 6m. its also making my laptop lag.

[@drowningconsciousness2127]

why cant i see the cloud stuff ?

[@svezvfx9792]

same

[@beast6557]

got confused on point when you started linking nodes, can't find the hotkeys to do that

[@beast6557]

found the hotkey to do that, Thanks for the tutorial

[@kanoshanker895]

i was following great until i saw that green tab over material output now im stuck

[@svezvfx9792]

same

[@MikeGeorgia]

Great tutorial. Unfortunately, I can't view the atmosphere in material view or eevee. Anyone know the solution?

[@elementt__4395]

Subscribed because of this Tut. Excellent tutorial. Although the last part didn't work for me for some reason.

[@CriticalGiants]

Welcome to the club! Which part did not work for you?

[@elementt__4395]

@@CriticalGiants The atmosphere. No worries. Bought your tutorial and got it. Thanks

[@CriticalGiants]

@@elementt__4395 Oh sweet, thanks for the support :D

[@awkwardfox1622]

HOW DO YOU ENLARGE AN OBJECT

[@DEADALEK]

Can i make clouds without using Cycles?

[@danielhall1473]

This video was super helpful! I was able to get my planet looking how I want in eevee preview, but when I switch to cycles, it doesn't seem to work. Specifically, I had it set to where all water surfaces would appear shiny but the land was not reflective. In cycles however, the land looks even shinier than the water, to the point that it looks like metal. Is there some fundamental difference between how the two render engines or is it likely an issue with my computer?

[@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.

[@FOXY_ANIMATIONS]

Master

[@isaaclai1636]

Hmm, how would you go about creating an Earthlike planet though?

[@CriticalGiants]

This is explained in our gumroad

[@isaaclai1636]

@@CriticalGiants aw man, oh well.

[@ajojen6346]

I mean you could always just change the colors to look more like earth, but idk if that's what you're looking for

[@prabhakaragawane]

Can anyone please tell me that will this work in eevee?

[@crigrey12]

How do you set the viewer??!! PLS PLS PLS TELL ME! URGENTLY!!!!

[@taliesinriver]

install node wrangler addon, then ctrl+shift+click the node you want to preview

[@Pinkoshaberibunny]

Reminds me of space engine kinda

[@Skirbiy]

Well, unfortunately, blender stopped responding on a bump node thing

[@tenebrae1191]

👏👏

[@viper3074]

Melodysheeps Graphic card: [ Wisper* ] please help!

[@griffencake8072]

👍

[@z-beeblebrox]

ironically, when I try following this tutorial in Evee, Blender consistently crashes. But if I do it with Cycles preview, it's fine. I assume it's just my terrible GPU, but I find it amusing that the offline renderer struggles less in real time XD

[@taliesinriver]

what do you mean by 'offline'? Eevee doesn't use the internet...

[@z-beeblebrox]

@@taliesinriver "Offline rendering" is a term used to describe any rendering method that exclusively generates frames in a static image format, vs a real-time renderer which is optimized to render to your screen immediately. Eevee is kind of a hybrid I'd say, but because it demands your GPU to work, it's a lot more real-time than offline.

[@taliesinriver]

@@z-beeblebrox interesting, thanks for the explanation

[@amitashokkamble]

Can this be exported as a .glb?

[@mhonella]

Excellent!

[@CriticalGiants]

Thank you! Cheers!