C4D TUTORIAL | Ultra-Quick Realistic Planets [Cinema 4D] 

yea. i know that sweet smell

But das a whole extra click! Good tip though! :)

thanks :)

I see this isn't your first time on the internet… 😏

Haha, damn. That's pretty cool. We owe quite a bit to him. :)

Yes! That's a good technique!

I'm actually quite shocked by the overwhelming response to my vids, I think it's great! And it's nice to know people find it useful!

Yup! There's no real calculations going on.

Thanks my dude!

Thanks! :)

Thanks! In short: Bunch of glow and blue. XD

IRL colour banding.

Thanks dude. People seem to like!

Aw shit, I know. There's some interference which seems to happen when my external audio card gets hot. I'll just have to get better at recording the VO quickly! :)

The music is there for mind-control purposes, you are now part of my brain-based render farm. Thank you. :)

Aint nobody got time fo dat.

I'm glad. :)

Always aim for insane!

It's easy to overlook the simpler techniques sometimes. XD

Well in this vid - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dsOSnaRv5PU.html - I used the same technique as my glass shatter tutorial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l6sY4KILjAs.html But you can probably get some good results nowadays with Voronoi Fracture in R18.

Daniel Danielsson thanks for that...but I use nitroblast...the ground texture always move because it's a video

Tackar!

That's just a photoshop. Find an aerial photo of a city at night, bring it into photoshop and set it's transfer mode to 'Add' over your original planet texture. The rest of the workflow ought to be the same! Thanks for watching!

Ohh, that's really...logical. I managed to find another way around though, but I've got no idea how I didn't come up with your method. Very simple, thanks for the video and your help!

No worries, what did you end up doing?

It was almost the same but I added normal satellite photo on top of the planet in photoshop and in cinema 4d I put transparency on the material colour and added satellite layer. In the end I made another sphere, with the material I just created, which was slightly bigger than the planet. I know it's really weird method I used and pointlessly long. But in the end it came out as it should have.

I was half-way through doing almost the same thing before realising Photoshop is a thing. XD

There's no diploma at the end of your studies, but that's because the learning never ends! :O

:O Infinite learning!

That was using a morph cam at 04:40.

I don't think it's a real term, but I mean it'll look just like the real deal because it kind of is.

He ment the Sphere attribute under Object tab, there is a checkbox " Render Perfect ". It means that you can don't need a lot of Segments to have a perfectly round Sphere when you render it out.

did u find out?

I think he just zoomed and moved his camera

I just add them to the texture in photoshop. Simple as that!

Thank you too!

I just added it to the texture in Photoshop.

I don't quite remember, but default should work. But you can probably turn down the ray depth very low to speed it up.

@@DanielDanielsson Hey, thanks for your answer, I forgot to said that I use "Otcane" for render does that bother?

Default will work for sure, but you can probably turn down the ray depth very low to speed it up.

I photoshopped a picture of a city at night onto the texture.

@@DanielDanielsson Ok. :)

agree... it's pretty much useless technique :(

I didn't mean completly... I was using it a ceartain way so I meant that it is useless when I use it that way. But I was wrong about baking it. Camera projection can be backed i had tried it in the meanwhile I just couldn't bake the alpha channel for the atmosphere yet when I use "backe object" and if I use "bake texture" wich has a option for alpha it had the wrong mapping so far "baking object" has worked... I mean if I use a fantasy Planet it can be done more realistic with Photoshoping instead of modelling it in cinema thats why I'll have still to use this tut as a inspiration and change a few things in order to make it work.

You can also bake the texture by making the object editable, right-clicking the material tag and choosing 'Generate UVW coordinates'. That should smack the texture right onto the planet. I probably used the Linear Dodge/Additive blending mode for the city. :)

Just un-checking "tile" in my material tag, then adding another material underneath with only 'Alpha' activated and made totally transparent.

ok, I got it, thanks for reply.

nevermind i was dragging it into the selection box lol

Happens to us all.

I'm actually not moving the sphere at all at that point. I'm looking from inside the camera which is projecting the texture onto the sphere, and only moving the camera. You can get rid of the areas outside the image by unchecking 'Tile' in your Material Tag, and adding another material underneath with only the 'Alpha' channel enabled and set to fully transparent.

The city lights on the surface? That's just another layer added on top in Photoshop. (Then a lot of glow in AE! :D)

Some Colour Balance, Levels and Glows in After Effects.

If you can do this tutorial after just one week of C4D you might be a genius.

Pretty much any reasonably new and professional Mac or PC will do. I do most of my stuff on a Mac laptop.

Daniel Danielsson thx

Thanks! For this video; Standard. In general; Arnold.

I think you might just need to angle the projection camera to match the image with your sphere.