Creating a Planetary Scene

Creating the Star Scene .....................................................................................................211 Create the 3D Meteors .......................................................................................................218 Creating the Planet ..............................................................................................................220

From this chapter on we are going to pull it all together into completing tutorials that represent a single unifi ed concept. Here, we are going to create a fun concept of a Sci-Fi planetary scene of ringed planets and meteors. You will be introduced to spherical Depth Maps as the basis for creating the meteors. You can fi nd all of the work fi les in “C hapter 7 Planet” folder so let’s get started by creating the space and star scene in which to compose our planets.