Very nice tutorial! Excited for the next one! Can you please tell us something about your workstation? I got lots of trouble with the displacement and my system memory (32GB)... Thanks again!
Thanks a lot! My workstation is a 2017 iMac with 64Gb ram. Nothing too special hahah it’s very slow on my end as well. Usually I’d make a planet with half the resolution of the textures I’m using now but as I was making this for our short film I went for the highest resolution.
Thank you!! Just to make sure the shape is the same of the planet and the water. The displacement texture makes the land and the water misalign sometimes :)
@@BlauwFilms Actually in layered material the displacement texture from the base layer affect all the layers, corona completely ignores displacement channel from any upper layer. So you could use displacement texture only with the water layer. Anyway, the result would be just as great.
Thank you! Octane is still a render engine I haven't had the time to dive into... Hopefully by the end of the year. I did find this Fog article: inlifethrill.com/fog-octanerender-cinema-4d/ Also, the ending of this video seems to cover a Volume+Atmosphere node ua-cam.com/video/dM9HwgitbqQ/v-deo.html Maybe this helps! Cheers
Can you make more Corona C4D tutorials? Its hard finding some quality corona tutorials on yt. It would be cool if u made a corona course kinda like the blender donut course
I’ve been thinking about doing something like that. There are a lot of functions in Corona that I want to learn more about myself. I’ll do some research and I’ll give it a shot! Cheers
hello! I'm a student, I just came across your video which I needed for my uni project. Does the project file also have this tutorial but in-depth? do i sign up with my uni mail address? Thank you!
Hello @novahan! Thanks for checking in. We've been moving the student license assets to a new hosting. That's why they're gone from the site. Can you e-mail me at leo@blauwfilms.com? Then I'll send you the files you need :) Good luck with the project!
Thanks so much! I made them in Photoshop from the diffuse texture: -Add Hue/Saturation and bring saturation to 0% -Add Curves and bring both the left and the right slider to the exact middle. You will now have an image that's fully 50% gray. -Add more points to the Curves adjustment and play around adding the "height" in the highlights and shadows.
Lol thanks to Andrew Kramer and VideoCopilot we no longer need to struggle and waste time in a 3d package trying to create a realistic looking planets especially the render step which is just ridiculous if you have animations !
Very true, in most situations if you need a quick realistic planet VC Orb does the trick. But at the end of the day it doesn't beat the control you have over your planet in a 3d suite. I like to just include the render-farm budget to the production budget of whatever I'm working on.
What a nice video! Thanks for sharing! :) How long is the rendertime with corona renderer? Planning on doing a 1-2 min space shortfilm but don't wanna wait hours and hours for every tiny shot. (I'm having a gtx 1070 and I7-8700k for reference)
Thanks Jannis! The render times for a 4K shot are about 2 hours a frame so that's why I opted for using a long lens and just rendering a still. This also has to do with the size of the textures I'm using. Texture size is the first thing to take the render times through the roof. In this example the textures are 20K. If you use 4K textures and render at 1920x1080 you should be fine to render an animation. Here's a video on our Instagram in which I used the 4K textures: instagram.com/p/B-UcX9tpiOl/ The result works pretty much the same as long as your shot is a bit further away. Cheers! Leo
@@BlauwFilms Thanks for the answer :) I also got 8k textures of it, so I have a bit more freedom if I want. I used Octane renderer before, is the change to corona a big one or easy to learn in your opinion? (Using cinema4D since 3-4 years also)
@@Min3styl3r Not at all mate. Corona Renderer is pretty easy if you have some experience with c4d's native material editor. I guess it's somewhere in between Cinema 4D's materials and Octane user interface. :)
hey, very helpful video thanks! I'm working on mars' short film and trying to create an atmosphere as you have done for the earth but with martian colors in the fresnel texture. but still not getting that good results can you give some tips.
Hello, absolutely. That sounds great! I will give this a deeper dive (maybe even a Mars specific tutorial). But for now the tips I can give you are: -The atmosphere should be a thinner layer. -The Refraction index of Carbon Monoxide is about 1.0 -You could use some XPresso tags to let the refraction react to a different light source with a different color. Have a look at my Saturn tutorial for that :) cheers
Hey Harivxf! I created a Mars tutorial. I'm not sure if it's still useful to you but hope you enjoy it! Cheers, Leo ua-cam.com/video/qEfGC-3Tynw/v-deo.html
Hey, thank you for an awesome tutorial. I have a minor problem, light seems to shine trough water from inside the earth and then glows in dark parts. Is there a way to fix that
Hey Joris! Thanks for the comment! It’s due to the Volumetric effect. Since I’ve made this tutorial I’ve been playing around with simply using a highly reflective water material without volumetric scattering. Also using a SSS effect instead can give you good results. With the volumetric scattering effect you get pretty cool results when it’s lit from the front but you do end up with see through. What you could try as well is adding a black disc object inside, scaled up to fit the inside cross-section of the planet. It could then be used as a block for volume. By using a target tag on the disc you could have it face the camera I believe :) Hope this helps! Leo
Amazing tutorial! I just have one problem, no matter what I do the clouds in my renders always end up looking blocky, especially in the shadows, do you have any tips to try and sort that problem out?
I'd make a new texture with the city lights map and apply that to a new layer in the Layered material. Then you'd have to mask it out to appear only on the shadow area. You could achieve that manually by using a gradient ramp as a mask and controlling the sliders until the look is correct! :)
wow, looks like it worked, thanks! I’ve been doing a colonized Pluto render and felt like the lights were missing, but the result is just mind-blowing! Though it doesn’t adapt to whether the sun is shining at it or if it’s in the planet’s shadow like it does in VC Orb but I never liked it because rendering a planet using textures with a very large definition in VC Orb is a real pain in the ass 😂😂😂 So I guess toggling the gradient depending on its rotation will do the job. What I got is just perfect for a scene anyway! Thank you once more!
@@dimagorbenko8253 That's great to hear! Maybe you could use some Xpresso controls to connect a 3D-linear gradient to the rotation of your light source. I haven't tried this out myself yet but it could potentially work haha! I'll give it a try sometime soon. Yes I agree... VC Orb is great for far distant planets in my opinion. Cheers!
Hey Eri, Here's a Google Drive link to the project file: drive.google.com/file/d/1wKamdBmf43bCGxJmTAUYBgqHsT2fPo2a/view?usp=sharing Feel free to have a look at the materials. Cheers, Leo
You’re absolutely right. Our channel started out as one that shares advanced techniques, but our audience is growing. I’ll be working on a series that covers nodes, Xpresso and other techniques to bridge the gap to an advanced user. Cheers, Leo
Yeah opinions are quite divisive on this format. On the one hand I wanted to demonstrate the techniques while keeping it render-engine agnostic. On the other hand I wanted to stick to a tutorial format. The video is quite outdated by now and I'm working on an updated one that's coming out soon. Either way, thanks for watching!
@@JakeMMC Thanks a lot! Yeah absolutely, I'll try to incorporate as much as I can into the video. I'm slowly shifting the Blauw Films content to be less of a straight forward "button-clicking" tutorial and more of a workflow guide that includes all the important steps. With the recent planet renders I've been making, so much comes down to having a feel for composition and lighting. That way there is far less compositing involved and you get a much nicer result straight from the render.
@@BlauwFilms do you mind if I could get this project file for free? I've wanted to do these planet renders for a while now and can't seem to get it right at all, either the textures are terrible or something is wrong even though I use the same ones as you
Photo-Realistic Saturn Tutorial is out now!
ua-cam.com/video/ShOGD1xzZ_U/v-deo.html
I know nothing about 3D but I love watching this! It’s just mesmerizing to see something created out of nothing!
MsBikasa the blank canvas is the worst but once the atmosphere is in place it all starts looking very fun!
you read my mind with the fresnel.
Even better than NASA-CGI!!!
Hahaha thank you thank you...
Thanks Blauw films! Amazing work.
No worries!
Thank you a lot, you helped me with a very important project which I was totally stuck with. keep up.
Oh that’s great to hear! Thank you!
Great work !
lovely, good one.
Thank you!
Very nice tutorial! Excited for the next one! Can you please tell us something about your workstation? I got lots of trouble with the displacement and my system memory (32GB)... Thanks again!
Thanks a lot! My workstation is a 2017 iMac with 64Gb ram. Nothing too special hahah it’s very slow on my end as well. Usually I’d make a planet with half the resolution of the textures I’m using now but as I was making this for our short film I went for the highest resolution.
@@BlauwFilms thx man! Keep up your work! I love the whole process and the "deepness" of problem solving in the video.
YasdF Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
nice tutorial. can i ask why u need to put displacement map on water material? good job on tutorial btw :D
Thank you!! Just to make sure the shape is the same of the planet and the water. The displacement texture makes the land and the water misalign sometimes :)
@@BlauwFilms Actually in layered material the displacement texture from the base layer affect all the layers, corona completely ignores displacement channel from any upper layer. So you could use displacement texture only with the water layer. Anyway, the result would be just as great.
@@vx7130 Ah thank you very much for clearing that up. The issue is solved then hahah!
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Nice. I am not corona guy but for redshift it should work in similar process. Right?
Petr Holusa yes! The principles should be the same. But if there are any difficulties in Redshift let me know!
Awesome video! How would you approach the Rayleigh scattering in Octane?
Thank you! Octane is still a render engine I haven't had the time to dive into...
Hopefully by the end of the year. I did find this Fog article: inlifethrill.com/fog-octanerender-cinema-4d/
Also, the ending of this video seems to cover a Volume+Atmosphere node ua-cam.com/video/dM9HwgitbqQ/v-deo.html
Maybe this helps! Cheers
@@BlauwFilms Yo the best. Thank you!
Can you make more Corona C4D tutorials? Its hard finding some quality corona tutorials on yt. It would be cool if u made a corona course kinda like the blender donut course
I’ve been thinking about doing something like that. There are a lot of functions in Corona that I want to learn more about myself. I’ll do some research and I’ll give it a shot! Cheers
@@BlauwFilms I would love it if you did that! I am making a short film and I'm hoping to finish it by the time I turn 14 so learning corona would help
@@logimite7174 Amazing! Feel free to send over the film when it's done. Would love to see what you learned!
hello! I'm a student, I just came across your video which I needed for my uni project. Does the project file also have this tutorial but in-depth? do i sign up with my uni mail address? Thank you!
Hello @novahan! Thanks for checking in. We've been moving the student license assets to a new hosting. That's why they're gone from the site.
Can you e-mail me at leo@blauwfilms.com?
Then I'll send you the files you need :)
Good luck with the project!
Thanks, Can you please do Saturn next please!
For sure! I’ll be working on that this week. Cheers!
ua-cam.com/video/ShOGD1xzZ_U/v-deo.html Here you go! Saturn tutorial is now online! :)
where did you get the displacement texture?
btw love your tutorials
Thanks so much! I made them in Photoshop from the diffuse texture:
-Add Hue/Saturation and bring saturation to 0%
-Add Curves and bring both the left and the right slider to the exact middle. You will now have an image that's fully 50% gray.
-Add more points to the Curves adjustment and play around adding the "height" in the highlights and shadows.
@@BlauwFilms orrrr you could just click generate height map
@@logimite7174 absolutely!
Lol thanks to Andrew Kramer and VideoCopilot we no longer need to struggle and waste time in a 3d package trying to create a realistic looking planets especially the render step which is just ridiculous if you have animations !
Very true, in most situations if you need a quick realistic planet VC Orb does the trick. But at the end of the day it doesn't beat the control you have over your planet in a 3d suite. I like to just include the render-farm budget to the production budget of whatever I'm working on.
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Thank you
Spaik You’re welcome!
What a nice video! Thanks for sharing! :)
How long is the rendertime with corona renderer? Planning on doing a 1-2 min space shortfilm but don't wanna wait hours and hours for every tiny shot. (I'm having a gtx 1070 and I7-8700k for reference)
Thanks Jannis! The render times for a 4K shot are about 2 hours a frame so that's why I opted for using a long lens and just rendering a still. This also has to do with the size of the textures I'm using. Texture size is the first thing to take the render times through the roof. In this example the textures are 20K. If you use 4K textures and render at 1920x1080 you should be fine to render an animation. Here's a video on our Instagram in which I used the 4K textures: instagram.com/p/B-UcX9tpiOl/ The result works pretty much the same as long as your shot is a bit further away. Cheers! Leo
@@BlauwFilms Thanks for the answer :) I also got 8k textures of it, so I have a bit more freedom if I want. I used Octane renderer before, is the change to corona a big one or easy to learn in your opinion? (Using cinema4D since 3-4 years also)
@@Min3styl3r Not at all mate. Corona Renderer is pretty easy if you have some experience with c4d's native material editor. I guess it's somewhere in between Cinema 4D's materials and Octane user interface. :)
@@BlauwFilms Haha okay :) Gonna have some fun with it in the next months. I'll tag you on instagram if I'll upload anything with corona :)
@@Min3styl3r Amazing! Thanks a lot! Please do, excited to see what you make. Cheers!
hey, very helpful video thanks! I'm working on mars' short film and trying to create an atmosphere as you have done for the earth but with martian colors in the fresnel texture. but still not getting that good results can you give some tips.
Hello, absolutely. That sounds great! I will give this a deeper dive (maybe even a Mars specific tutorial). But for now the tips I can give you are:
-The atmosphere should be a thinner layer. -The Refraction index of Carbon Monoxide is about 1.0 -You could use some XPresso tags to let the refraction react to a different light source with a different color. Have a look at my Saturn tutorial for that :) cheers
Hey Harivxf! I created a Mars tutorial. I'm not sure if it's still useful to you but hope you enjoy it! Cheers, Leo
ua-cam.com/video/qEfGC-3Tynw/v-deo.html
Hey, thank you for an awesome tutorial. I have a minor problem, light seems to shine trough water from inside the earth and then glows in dark parts. Is there a way to fix that
Hey Joris! Thanks for the comment! It’s due to the Volumetric effect. Since I’ve made this tutorial I’ve been playing around with simply using a highly reflective water material without volumetric scattering. Also using a SSS effect instead can give you good results.
With the volumetric scattering effect you get pretty cool results when it’s lit from the front but you do end up with see through.
What you could try as well is adding a black disc object inside, scaled up to fit the inside cross-section of the planet. It could then be used as a block for volume. By using a target tag on the disc you could have it face the camera I believe :)
Hope this helps! Leo
Amazing tutorial!
I just have one problem, no matter what I do the clouds in my renders always end up looking blocky, especially in the shadows, do you have any tips to try and sort that problem out?
Thanks mate! That could be a too low res texture for how close you are to the planet or maybe your alpha has been crunched too much. I hope it helps!
@@BlauwFilms thank you! It seems it was a bad opacityt map
I work in corona render in c4d too, but I have a problem in figuring out how to add city lights to my planet. Any suggestions how this can be done?
I'd make a new texture with the city lights map and apply that to a new layer in the Layered material. Then you'd have to mask it out to appear only on the shadow area. You could achieve that manually by using a gradient ramp as a mask and controlling the sliders until the look is correct! :)
wow, looks like it worked, thanks! I’ve been doing a colonized Pluto render and felt like the lights were missing, but the result is just mind-blowing! Though it doesn’t adapt to whether the sun is shining at it or if it’s in the planet’s shadow like it does in VC Orb but I never liked it because rendering a planet using textures with a very large definition in VC Orb is a real pain in the ass 😂😂😂 So I guess toggling the gradient depending on its rotation will do the job. What I got is just perfect for a scene anyway! Thank you once more!
@@dimagorbenko8253 That's great to hear! Maybe you could use some Xpresso controls to connect a 3D-linear gradient to the rotation of your light source. I haven't tried this out myself yet but it could potentially work haha! I'll give it a try sometime soon.
Yes I agree... VC Orb is great for far distant planets in my opinion. Cheers!
Can you pass me the material "Corona Volumen" that appears, I'm interested, please
Hey Eri, Here's a Google Drive link to the project file: drive.google.com/file/d/1wKamdBmf43bCGxJmTAUYBgqHsT2fPo2a/view?usp=sharing
Feel free to have a look at the materials. Cheers, Leo
thank you very much, I loved your work
@@EriTheSolitary Thanks a lot!!
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your video it not detailed.. new learner can't understand anything.. you should teach the node tutorial
You’re absolutely right. Our channel started out as one that shares advanced techniques, but our audience is growing. I’ll be working on a series that covers nodes, Xpresso and other techniques to bridge the gap to an advanced user. Cheers, Leo
this really isnt a tutorial at all this is just you going over what you did but skipping over the important things
Yeah opinions are quite divisive on this format. On the one hand I wanted to demonstrate the techniques while keeping it render-engine agnostic. On the other hand I wanted to stick to a tutorial format. The video is quite outdated by now and I'm working on an updated one that's coming out soon. Either way, thanks for watching!
@@BlauwFilms Yeah I love the looks of your planet models, you think in your tutorial you can go over everything about how its made?
@@JakeMMC Thanks a lot! Yeah absolutely, I'll try to incorporate as much as I can into the video. I'm slowly shifting the Blauw Films content to be less of a straight forward "button-clicking" tutorial and more of a workflow guide that includes all the important steps. With the recent planet renders I've been making, so much comes down to having a feel for composition and lighting. That way there is far less compositing involved and you get a much nicer result straight from the render.
@@BlauwFilms do you mind if I could get this project file for free? I've wanted to do these planet renders for a while now and can't seem to get it right at all, either the textures are terrible or something is wrong even though I use the same ones as you