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Finished a tutorial by Ryan King today for a procedurally generated Mars like planet in Blender 3D. I made a few deviations from the tutorial though, beginning with separating the atmosphere out as its own object. I also changed some of the noise textures from 3D to 4D, which allows me to set a different seed value for the dark patches, the canyons and the craters so that I can quickly randomize the look and placement of these features. There are a few more options I still want to work into it to give me more control over the placement and size of the craters and maybe the ability to add in some mountains if I wish. I don't just want a procedural shader to make a specifically Mars like planet, but more one to make a broader variety of such barren planets that I could then use in future space and sci-fi renders. I'll probably post an update to this later but for now I'm pretty pleased with the result.

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Finished a tutorial by Ryan King today for a procedurally generated Mars like planet in Blender 3D. I made a few deviations from the tutorial though, beginning with separating the atmosphere out as its own object. I also changed some of the noise textures from 3D to 4D, which allows me to set a different seed value for the dark patches, the canyons and the craters so that I can quickly randomize the look and placement of these features. There are a few more options I still want to work into it to give me more control over the placement and size of the craters and maybe the ability to add in some mountains if I wish. I don't just want a procedural shader to make a specifically Mars like planet, but more one to make a broader variety of such barren planets that I could then use in future space and sci-fi renders. I'll probably post an update to this later but for now I'm pretty pleased with the result.