Planet Suite
Copyright RubiconDigital (Stefan Kotuziak) February 2008
All of this product's content was created by RubiconDigital (Stefan Kotuziak)

Product description: A suite of 3D planets and celestial bodies for Poser.

System requirements: PC/Mac. Poser 5 or greater. This product will not work in
DAZ|Studio.

To install this product to your Poser Runtime, unzip the archive to your main Poser folder.


The Planet Suite is a collection of medium and high polygon 3D planets and
celestial bodies. There is an Earth-like layered planet with separate surface,
clouds and atmosphere, a sun, a moon, a generic planet with no atmosphere, a
ringed planet, an asteroid, an entire asteroid field and a star field.
The medium polygon models should be adequate for most work, but if you need to get
really close to a planet, the high poly versions are there.

Each model is presented as a figure, so they are all available from the
one library palette.

There are plenty of planetary material presets supplied, and if you know
anything about the material room, it should not be too difficult to modify the
supplied ones to create your own.

There are almost no bitmap textures used, except for the planetary rings.
Normally when mapping planets, you need enormous bitmaps if you want to get the
camera anywhere near the objects. The bitmaps used for the planetary rings are
tiny, but due to the way the rings were modelled, you can still get the camera as
close as you want without having to worry about the textures falling apart.
All the planetary surfaces consist entirely of Poser shader nodes and will not fall apart,
no matter how close you need to move the camera to them.

The materials are in .mt5 format and available in the material room palette.
There are no MAT poses, as selecting material presets from the material room
palette is a simple process, and the objects only have between one and three
surfaces each.

Lighting these planets is pretty straightforward. If you want the most realistic deep space
look, use one infinte light and colour and rotate it to taste. You may want to
set the shadow value to slightly less than 1, if you don't want the shadows to
become totally black. Make sure you use raytraced shadows, not shadow maps!
Shadow maps will not, no matter how high you set them, be able to give you
accurate shadows on these large objects.

You can find larger, more detailed renders and usage tips at my web site:
http://www.rubicondigital.110mb.com/Code/Products.html


This product contains the following files:

Runtime\Geometries\RD_PlanetSuite\
Asteroid.obj
Asteroids.obj
Earth.obj
Earth_Hi.obj
Moon.obj
Moon_Hi.obj
Planet.obj
Planet_Hi.obj
Ringed_Planet.obj
Ringed_Planet_Hi.obj
Stars.obj
Sun.obj


Runtime\Libraries\Character\RD_PlanetSuite\
Asteroid.cr2
Asteroid.png
Asteroids.cr2
Asteroids.png
Earth High.cr2
Earth High.png
Earth Medium.cr2
Earth Medium.png
Moon High.cr2
Moon High.png
Moon Medium.cr2
Moon Medium.png
Planet High.cr2
Planet High.png
Planet Medium.cr2
Planet Medium.png
Ringed Planet High.cr2
Ringed Planet High.png
Ringed Planet Medium.cr2
Ringed Planet Medium.png
Stars.cr2
Stars.png
Sun.cr2
Sun.png


Runtime\Libraries\Materials\RD_PlanetSuite\
Asteroids.mt5
Asteroids.png
Clouds Bump.mt5
Clouds Bump.png
Clouds.mt5
Clouds.png
Earth Atmo.mt5
Earth Atmo.png
Earth Surface 1.mt5
Earth Surface 1.png
Earth Surface 2.mt5
Earth Surface 2.png
Earth Surface 3.mt5
Earth Surface 3.png
Earth Surface 4.mt5
Earth Surface 4.png
Moon 1.mt5
Moon 1.png
Moon 2.mt5
Moon 2.png
Moon 3.mt5
Moon 3.png
Planet 1 Rough.mt5
Planet 1 Rough.png
Planet 1 Smooth.mt5
Planet 1 Smooth.png
Planet 2 Rough.mt5
Planet 2 Rough.png
Planet 2 Smooth.mt5
Planet 2 Smooth.png
Planet 3 Rough.mt5
Planet 3 Rough.png
Planet 3 Smooth.mt5
Planet 3 Smooth.png
Planet 4.mt5
Planet 4.png
Planet 5.mt5
Planet 5.png
Planet 6.mt5
Planet 6.png
Rings 1.mt5
Rings 1.png
Rings 2.mt5
Rings 2.png
Rings 3.mt5
Rings 3.png
Rings 4.mt5
Rings 4.png


Runtime\ReadMe\RD_PlanetSuite\
RD_PlanetSuite_ReadMe.txt
license.txt


Runtime\Textures\RD_PlanetSuite\
RD_Nebula.jpg
RingsColour1.tif
RingsColour2.tif
RingsColour3.tif
RingsColour4.tif
RingsTrans1.tif