Blender Guru: Create a Realistic Earth

Blender Guru Quality tutorials, tips and articles Create a Realistic Earth 14 Jun 2011, 3:52 pm With the complex terrain, ocean, clouds and atmospheres you’d think that creating a realistic earth would be quite hard to create… especially in Blender. But with the right know how it’s actually pretty easy. In this tutorial we will be using several textures from NASA and some careful tweaking of materials to create realistic shaders. Finished Result In this tutorial you will discover how to: Use color, bump and specular maps Add clouds and atmosphere Use material nodes to create city lights in the darkness Watch the Tutorial Download the finished .blend Textures used in this tutorial: Color Map Bump Map Specularity Mask Clouds Night Lights All textures are from NASA but have been resized for easier use in blender. Further Inspiration Not sure where to go with this tutorial? Check out these links for further inspiration: Asteroid Impact set to Pink Floyd Space Sunset over the Earth Impressive Earth Rendering with C4D Hope you found this tutorial useful. As always, if you make something cool, post it in the comments below! Very soon I will be releasing a new training product called The Nature Academy (sneak peak), so to prepare for the event, the next few weeks on Blender Guru will be focused heavily on nature. Stay tuned :)