TUTORIAL: Make A Planet Shader In Blender Part 1
How to make a Planet Shader using Blender and only one texture map!
Blender is great. There's so much you can do with it and there's so much info all over the internet. But I couldn't find a planet shading tutorial that was specifically for Blender.
Oh there are plenty of Earth maps out there, but nothing that makes you your own M-Class Planet. So, let's rub the dust of the procedural textures and show what you can do with them. We will go over how to make height specific colors so you can show landmasses and water, how to use one map to drive multiple color controls as well as how to fracture the mapping of the textures using other textures!
FYI - I did this tutorial in Maya years ago, but Blender's procedural textures are better! Yes! I said it, Maya's procedural textures leave a lot to be desired. But the tools learned from there over the years are used here to good effect.
Sections
0:00 - intro
1:38 - making a heightmap.
2:27 - using a remap node to make the height go between 0 and 1.
4:07 - adding the first colorRamp to make our simple planet shader first look.
6:54 - hey, it's a planet!
7:11 - making just land.
7:57 - making the sea.
8:24 - one colorRamp to rule them all! Creating a colorRamp that decides what is land and what is water.
10:42 - using your new separation colorRamp, we make bumps and roughness that divide water and land
13:33 - Combining and separating bump maps for land and sea.
15:21 - Manipulating texture UVs with a procedural map or "Using texture Map to make other map more random!"
20:39 - pretty planet point
20:55 - Making the Equator using a linear texture map on the UVs driving a new colorRamp
24:31 - Making the Polar icecaps very much in the same way as the Equator, but more colderer...
25:50 - fracturing UV coordinates again to make the iceCaps more icy. Brrrr....
28:50 - "It's not pixels, it's maths!" Messing with your planet to make it More Minbar, a bit Centari Prime and hopefully not Z'ha'dum!
You can find the finished scene with the final shader on gumroad.
https://gum.co/dTKpZ
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