Modeling an Ice giant.

[LtHeckard]

I have decided that I want to model a planet to my liking to add to KSP.. May I present to you.. Herrous!

No promises for a DL link, I'm not even sure if I can get it to work, but we'll see what happens.

[Majorjim!]

I would love to learn how to make KSP planets, that would be too awesome.

Can you load this in the game? I wouldn't even know where to start.

[LtHeckard]

It's far from finished, I haven't tried it on KSP yet.

[ximrm]

Do you intend to import the sphere?

I'm not sure how you want to integrate it into the game, but a mesh is not needed(in many if not all cases for celestials).

You should concentrate on the materials.(ie. diffuse,bump).

In case you don't want to completely rely on noiseshaders:

Here are some nice planetary textures you can use as a base or reference: http://freebitmaps.blogspot.de/2010/12/srgb-planet-trantor.html

examples:

And here is a procedural Sci-Fi world generator which is useful for creating bases: http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/world/

[NFUN]

Thor would not approve of this.

[LtHeckard]

@ximrum Thanks a ton, any way to saved one of my own and use it?

[tygoo7]

I thought planets were made with PQS and height maps and not actual models? Sort of like how Planet Factory and Kopernicus works.

[LtHeckard]

Heck, I don't know how to make the Planet work, I'm making the model with Blender.

[michaelhester07]

If you're going for ice planet you'll want more white than blue. Hoth from Star Wars is a perfect example of that concept. IRL Enceladus of Saturn is a perfect example of an atmosphere-less ice planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus For your reading pleasure.

[LtHeckard]

I was more going along the lines of Neptune.

[ximrm]

Hoth is also available there if you want to go with a similar style.

Edit: even more maps http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/alien.html

Neptune: http://imgarcade.com/1/neptune-texture-map/

NASA Stuff: http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/

NASA visible earth: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ (if you want to create a cloudmap)

Edited October 19, 2014 by ximrm