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Planets and Stuff - WIP

MadMan1701A

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Here's something I was messing with... It looks like these folks did not have such a good day...

DeadPlanet003.jpg


I'm planning on using it in some wallpaper backdrops. I'll do all of the other glows and stuff in photoshop, later, but what else does it need?

-=MadMan=-
 
Aftermath of the doomsday machine...
Love the textures. And how it appears that what is left of the atmosphere is
streaming off the edges...

very nice.
 
Oh, sorry, one more question...
How do you do your starscapes? I've tried old freeware apps and photoshop methods, but they always tend to be a bit garish.
 
I wonder how long an Earth-sized planet in that condition could hold that shape ... if it had enough mass, could it eventually recover enough of its atmosphere to become habitable again?
 
I wonder how long an Earth-sized planet in that condition could hold that shape ... if it had enough mass, could it eventually recover enough of its atmosphere to become habitable again?

Considering something similar happened to Earth ITSELF some five billion years ago... I would venture 'yes'. :)
 
Oh sure! The giant impact hypothesis. But the Earth was still young then and largely molten. It regained its spherical shape relatively quickly. But an older world, perhaps even older than our own and a bit more massive to start with so a chunk like the one MadMan so beautifully illustrates could remain irregular in shape, but still collect enough of an atmosphere to be habitable.

It's an exotic location ... one I'd like to explore. Would "climbing" to the rim take you out of most of the atmosphere? Perhaps a few deep chasms would link the two sides meteorologically. Maybe boulders the size of towns would occasionally dislodge from the edge and tumble towards the center, pulverizing themselves and creating monstrous avalanches that run for hundreds of miles before coming to rest.
 
Well, there are other things to consider. How much of the planet's mass was blown out of the gravity well of the remaining bit? How long would it take to re-accreceate? The atmosphere may disperse, but it would 'cling' to the heaviest masses... etc.

Would it be survivable once the situation settled down, and if the planet remains irregular? Possibly, but it's hard to say. That's a LOT of toxic material thrown out and would settle all over the surface, so you're not looking at Class M anymore. But even without that, the whole 'center of gravity' is now changed, the orbit is likely messed up, etc...

But assuming ALL that stablizes, eventually, and you're still in the life belt, and there's enough atmopshere left.. then, sure, though the gravity would be a little wonky near the 'blast line'. All the ocean may be near the destroyed pole, for instance, due to the amount of 'down' we're dealing with.

Wonky, really, no matter what.
 
Looking good...but I don't think the atmosphere would just cut off at the point where the land was ripped away...

I think there would be some kind of haze or gaseous look to the area where part of the planet is missing...kind of cloud-like...hazy...
 
Oh, sorry, one more question...
How do you do your starscapes? I've tried old freeware apps and photoshop methods, but they always tend to be a bit garish.
Well, I did a tutorial a long time ago, and make one generic starfield at a huge resolution that I use for everything. I think all it involved as making a bunch of dots for the stars, a very slight zoom motion blur, and then a very slight blur after that, so they don't look harsh.

On this one, I just made the stars brighter on a separate layer, so they would stand out behind the "nebula".

To make those, I just make some render clouds, play with them, cut out the parts I don't want with the polygon select tool, with the feather setting up pretty high. Also set the layer mode to"screen", and play with the opacity. :)

-=MadMan=-
 
Looking good...but I don't think the atmosphere would just cut off at the point where the land was ripped away...

I think there would be some kind of haze or gaseous look to the area where part of the planet is missing...kind of cloud-like...hazy...
Yeah, didn't think about that. Neat idea, I may play around with that. Kind of like a fog, or a mist.

-=MadMan=-
 
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