This Product includes a set of Materials and Textures for rapidly creating high-quality Planets with Atmospheres and Planetary Rings. You can use a specialized Blueprint to place and configure the Planets, allowing you to adjust their basic parameters.

The Project includes three Master Materials: Planet, Atmosphere, and Planetary Rings. These Materials come with numerous parameters, allowing you to fully customize the appearance of the Planet. Depending on your Project's Sky, Atmosphere, and Lighting setup, you can use either Basic Shading or Unlit Shading.

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Textures

The Product includes 12 Normal Maps and 12 corresponding Height Maps in 4K resolution. The most realistic results are achieved when these Maps are used in pairs; however, you can mix and match the Normal and Height Maps as you wish to create more unusual results.

Master Material for Planet Surface

It includes three Layers, which are configured by default to represent the Planet's Surface, Water Surface, Clouds and Snow. Each of these Layers can be activated or deactivated to achieve the desired appearance. The Material can apply Basic Shading (considering the direction of the Primary Atmospheric Light Source) if it is necessary to display the Planet in Unlit Shading mode.

Master Material for Planetary Rings

The core of the Material is a one-dimensional Texture placed on a plane in polar coordinates. The Ring Material includes a procedurally calculated Shadow from the Planet, which is important if the Planet is far from the Camera. The Material can apply Basic Shading (considering the direction of the Primary Atmospheric Light Source) if it is necessary to display the Planet in Unlit Shading mode.

Master Material for Atmosphere

A Translucent Material that allows you to adjust the Glow of the Planet's Atmosphere. This Material includes Basic Shading (considering the direction of the Primary Atmospheric Light Source) and Fresnel Effects.

Blueprint

The Product includes a specialized Blueprint that assists in conveniently placing Planets in your Level, setting the Scale, hiding and showing Planet Components, and rotating the Planet around its center. To achieve a realistic image, Planets often need to be positioned far away from the main part of the Level (far beyond the Clouds). This Blueprint simplifies the setup of your Planet's position. Additionally, you can attach this Blueprint to a Directional Light Source (the Sun), allowing the Planets to rotate along with the Sun.

Updates

Update 1

• Snow Layer added - now you can create planets with snow poles.

Update 2

• Snow Layer - Season Offset parameter added - now poles do not have to be the same size.

• Close-Up Details - now you can enable Close-Up details (Normals+Flowmap).

• Small bug fixes.