Planets

Here's a picture of a few planets I've created in the past 2 days with Blender. The earth was the most difficult because I had to find a picture that would correctly map around a sphere. I needed a flat, laid out image of earth because if I just mapped a picture of a round earth to the sphere, it would have stretched only the side we see in the picture around my entire sphere rather than stretching the ENTIRE earth around the sphere. So, I was looking around and praying that Lord would help me find the right picture, and what do you know? I came across a picture made just for a 3D object. I have to see if it's copyrighted or not, now. Let's pray it's not, because if it's not I can use it if I ever need this model of the earth.

For the other models (Mars and the Moon) I just applied a material (color) that fit the planet and then added the appropriate texture and messed with the levels to get the right amount of bumpiness I wanted. They still need tweaking, but I thought I'd share what I've got so far. So here you go:



God bless!
Geno

P.S. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post them in a comment or email me or call me or however you want/know how to get a hold of me. Thanks! Lord willing this project will turn out looking good! We'll see what He does with it!