Create Cinematic Planets in Blender - Iridesium 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: strongest intro in the game

"might wanna add a plane"

For anyone having trouble with the cloud sphere blocking the view of the planet: under the material properties of the cloud sphere, switch the Shadow Mode to None.

The Planet looks absolutely amazing in EEVEE. Great Tutorial!

Your tutorials and end results are absolutely fantastic. Well done and thank you!!

Combining this with the Nebulas tutorial from Curtis Holt should prove very very pretty and cool :D Thanks!

I have never been so upset about finding a youtuber... then I found you... every last one of your tutorials cover what I want to learn especially with me and a few friends working on an extremely amateur star wars project this tutorial will be a huge help! There is one request I have of you... where did you find these magnificent planet textures.

Great tutorial I really appreciate your effort. I've rendered both cycles and eevee with very pleasing results on either side. I even tried a combo of the two atmospheres in eevee which looks great as well.

Yes! These are the kinda tutorials that I subscribed for!

Some of the best tutorials ive seen

Liked as soon as i saw timestamps list! Awesome tutorial

Intro didn't make my eyes or ears bleed - 11/10 Planets looked awesome in the intro - 11/10 Mr. Obvious treatment of the environmental color settings drawing direction from the target atmosphere (space) - 11/10 Good stuff all around; very professional.

Nice Tutorial!

dude you are way to underrated, i love your videos

Not bad. But one thing to consider when making space scenes (Some tips apply to your tutorial, others are just general tips). The epic lighting isn't really much of a realistic feature in space (I'm sure you know that though due to us having 1 sun). And also your camera movements shouldn't be so dramatic and quick to traverse around planets. Dramatic changes in camera location could ruin the illusion that the planet is... well... a planet and not a marble. and one last note: TECHNICALLY (yes I'm sorry lol) if you expose a camera for a brightly lit planet, stars shouldn't be visible (depending on if you're going for that Star Wars/ Star Trek look or Interstellar/ Gravity look). Either way, thank you for giving us another great tutorial! Always pleased to see what content you bring next!

Great tutorials. Will have to play them back in half speed tho, cuz you go pretty fast. I used your flame thrower tut and was able to get through after pausing and stopping...but great tutorials... keep them coming.

Great tutorial!

:O What a nice tutorial ! Thanks ! :) Iam sure many viewers incoming ! :)

great video, you explain very well

This is the best ever I seen before

for the viewer: do all the steps here, then get the small planet a bit more further and activate depth of field and it ends up PRECIOUS

1:40 i see what you did there :D

You have some fancy blender stuff that i dont see at other blender users including me!!

Awesome.Thanks!

Cycle always works very well 👍

thanks dude! it worked fine on blender 3.0. Also, for some extra spice i chose to import a hubble telescope model and animate it :D

Dude you are a god, thank you

Looks pretty

Muchas gracias por este tutorial.

Rendering this at 10000 samples with cycles took 16 hours but it was worth it!

In the defense of Flat Earthers, it's not a sphere either. Technically, Earth is an "oblate spheroid". So, it's a liiiiiiiiittle flat.

Me: *Looks at my PC* my PC: "Dont you dare try it"

best intro ever

The intro❤️

If you want to create your own planet texture you can use a Noise texture and a ColoRamp set to constant. You can use that to drive the landmass and then create another smaller noise/Musgrave texture for the land colors and boom! 100% procedural planet... I love Blender

Thank you :)

Liked and subscribed purely cause of the plane joke. Oh also wonderful tutorial.

THANKS BRUUHV

How on Earth (pun intended) and by what magic did the Transparent BSDF node at 3:49 turn into a TransGENDER BSDF at 3:50 (and then again back into normal)?!?!? Or am I seeing things? I'm just being curious. :-) And thanks a lot for the awesome tutorial!

Dude that volumetric trick on eevee was great, unless they add custom shapes for volumetrics meshes is really hard to use them for this stuff

"add plane"....Love it. that was funny.

Thanks for taking time to create the tutorial. I was wondering how would you go about world scaling when it comes to create a space scene with all 10 planets. etc.. ? Thank you

Please make tutorial on making Saturn with its rings

1:40 "I know its not completely accurate as a sphere so you might wanna add a plane" Lmao. Made me laugh. Instant sub :)

Hey mate fantastic video. What do you do in place of colorramps on volumetrics? I'm trying to get different colours around the perimeter.

класс! спасибо:)

Me : Having a math test in 3 days Also me : Let’s create planets on Blender !

Here's a tip for you, if your seeing the edges lines of the sphere's in rendered view then you need to either decrease or increase the sphere to make them non visible :)

HELP! the textures are not included in the link :( am I missing something? It’s only 4 files and none of the are the earth texture

Great one, but using non-color data instead of sRGB for roughness, bump and spec will be more accurate i think

More space tutorials pleaasee

I love fast little jokes you make lmao

Man you make learning blender easy just by simple following the steps

Very nice, but I'm not even gonna pretend I can follow this. Maybe some day.

Is it possible to create procedural clouds in the sphere using fractal noise to make it much more realistic? Plus volumetric haze to add realism/artisitc to space environment... And use colorramp to animate the water using fractal...

Too early for brain explosions, added plane in space you had me worried nice 😁

I have a problem, in the shading view the atmosphere and clouds and everything looks great, but in the rendered view once I get close to the planet, all the land disappears and I can only see the water, it's like the atmosphere isn't transparent enough.

for people the people having trouble with volume scatter, you need to scale up the object really far.

You should also make a tutorial on your intro..I really need to do like that

Hey bro pls make more cinematic tutorials

1:41 thank god i thought you were trying to the say planets are spheres for a second

1:40 LMAO 😂😂

Hi there, thank you so much for this tutorial, it is great. As a newbe to blender I am puzzled though what I am supposed to do with the xml file that I downloaded from your link. Would you be so kind and explain it to me, that would be very helpful, thanks in advance.

The shadow(from the small planet) that is hitting the main planet shows up twice (once for the planet and once for the atmosphere) instead of showing up as a single shadow on the planet surface. Not sure why this is happening. Anyone have any advice?

MAKE SURE TO USE NON-COLOR DATA FOR THE ROUGHNESS AND SPEC MAPS

2:54 I would like to know why you didn't change the "color space" of Specular and Roughness from sRGB to Non color data

that moon is orbiting DANGEROUSLY low

Your Computer sound when u switched to Cycles😁

Where did you get those cool planet textures?

i can only see through the atmosphere when i zoom away from the planet, how do i fix this?

How you get the terrestrial alien planet texture? Can you give for free high resolution with PBR?

Maybe Andrew is nice and is making cute tutorials, but here on your channel I actually learned a big, worth stuff

heyyy can these textures be used under a creative commons license? couldn't find the info anywhere so i'd really appreciate any clarification xx thank you in advance!

I'm getting this really strange patchwork-ish "hole" at the North pole of my planet when I'm working with the atmosphere nodes. Can't seem to work around it. Anyone have any ideas? (Of course, this only works when you use the fake "round" planet type.) UPDATE: Seems that no matter what I do, I get strange banding effects in my atmosphere. Update further: Changing the Shadow Mode to Alpha Clip and adjusting the Clip Threshold fixed the issue for me. Still not sure what caused it.

Cool. Please can i get the link for the texture?

I've a bit of a problem; when I plug the gradient texture and texture coordinate nodes into the volume scatter one, my whole volume scatter just... Disappears! I'm pretty sure I've followed the steps to a T but my atmosphere is just gone.. Any knowledge??

aren't spec and roughness maps supposed to be non-color? there's a significant difference in accuracy.

How to make those rings around the planet.. like on saturn

Was that a subtle flat earth reference at 1:45? lol

1:40 lmfao

I didn't think the specular channel should be used if you want to keep the material physically accurate

Hello great video Thanks you, Noob struggle: My materials display very well in Material preview mode but in render mode there is no opacity and the clouds appears like a mask, for example the cloud are white but the rest black, any idea how to fix this ? thanks

Great Tutorial. Keep them coming. I can't find the "softness" option for the sun light. I'm using Blender 2.81. Anyone know where they moved it to since 2.80?

I can hear the computer fan ramping up. lol

What is the first song after intro?

howd you get that sun reflection in that little clip at the end?

Your tutorial are really helpful for me but you are not responded my last comment in which I ased can you make a sword slash trail effect in blender

very nice trick on Atmosphere but on my side its not working as not looking the same way somehow. Can you help me out this thing, ill do an exchange for planet surfaces nodes, do you have any email instead of discord ?

LOL iykyk

What were your final render settings cause my back planet is coming out really noisy

How did you make the rings on saturn?

There some shadows that look like spikes, and idk how to repair that

I'm sort of stuck on the Volumetric Fog (9:32): When I attach the Gradient Texture Node to Volume Scatter the fog immediately dissapears

Can you make a movie about the burning of gasoline in airplanes?

So I'm stuck at clouds.. My planet is black and has patchy white. The textures don't seem to include the cloud textures that it was switched to the second time.. Sort of at a cross roads on what to do from here -- any help?

did you use eevee or cycles because eevee doesnt work well with this...

cool song please send me that music)

why do i have a black blur in the middle of my clouds,..!!!??!. i think this cloud object casts a shadow on the sphere below .... something is not right,.... hmmmmm

Also, "A" "S" "X" '2" on UV's - I know A means to select all, but what does the rest do? I've been trying to work out the UV's on my own and make the planet from scratch without the tutorial but I wasn't able to conform the UV's like you did with the short keys--? o.0

So this is how NASA does it xD