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Denece-the-sylcoe — Shy-Ru Planet Map
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Published: 2015-11-26 17:28:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 2286; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 60
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It's been a long time since I posted anything. I've been working on a HUGE project for this really awesome contest. Basically the assignment was to create a creature concept. Anyway, here is the planet I created for them. It's a bit quick, but I like it.Top Left image: Flat planet biomes. This planet is warmer than Earth is today so there are no large glaciers or tundra biomes. Geologists have found evidence for past glacial events, but the planet entered another warming period and they have since melted away. Rainforests, swamps, mangroves and forests are the predominate biomes. However, there are a few rain shadow deserts and one interior desert on the large supercontinent.
Bottom Left image: Fully rendered planet map with textures.
Middle Images: Fully rendered planet. Top is the far left side and the bottom is the far right side. Top shows the rage supercontinent across the equator while the bottom one shows the many lush tropical islands found on the planet.
Top Right image: Ocean currents. Red=warm currents Blue=cold ocean currents
Middle Right image: Trade-wind routes. Blue=Westerlies Yellow=Northeasterly Trade winds Orange=Southeasterly trade winds
Bottom Right image: Plate tectonics. The planet is younger and has a hotter interior creating more numerous, smaller and fast moving plates. There is a Himalayan style convergence happening in the supercontinent creating a large mountain range. The top of the supercontinent is rifting and will diverge from the main continent in several million years. For now it is a continental rift zone. At the other end is another rift zone but this rift zone has just recently (in the last few million years) completely reported from the main super continent.
This will need further editing and such...but for now. Enjoy! Critique always welcome. I'll upload my concept art for my creature later.
Either Friday or Saturday.(c) Denece the sylcoe
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how did you transferred your map on the planet? O.o it looks amazing!
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Spherize tool in photoshop, then I just shade it like a ball. And add clouds. 
Thank you!
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Oh god I try that too x3 your very welcome :3
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Man, I love all the thought you've put into this concept world, even considering things that people may not consider when inventing a world, like plate tectonic patterns (I'm totally geeking out over those 
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It's a shame that people don't typically consider plate margins when creating worlds, especially considering how influential plate boundaries are to shaping our planet and it's biosphere. Those plate margins are still kinda rough and will be adjusted in the future.
The texture was creating using satellite images. Just using clone stamping and blending modes. :3 I really do want to create a tutorial on creating a believable map.
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Indeed. It's a fundamental part of any geologist's knowledge and sadly not fully considered when people create worlds for things like sci-fi films (Star Wars for example).
The techniques are really quite simple but effective, it looks really good here. Great job
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It bugs me that in every sci-fi movie, star trek and star wars being some of the worst offenders, they refer to planets as having only one biome. Naboo, for example, is "swamp planet" and Tatooine as a "desert planet". No "Earth-like" planet can have only 1 biome. You can create conditions favoring a particular environment. For the Shy-Ru's planet I creates lots of islands bunched near the equator, but there is still tectonic activity so there will be orogenies and disruptions in wind patens, not to mention the polar regions which will naturally be colder. My point is that Earth has so many different ecosystems and it's impossible for a planet to just have 1. Shy-Ru's world is very wet, but there are still deserts and other ecosystems. Tectonics are so important too! Tectonic activity dictates mountain building, volcanisms, island formation and all kinda of things! In Sci-fi the planet are all uniform and have always been like that. It makes the world feel fake and static. There was a time in Shy-Ru's planet where all the continents were joined together to form a supercontinent and deserts became more widespread. There were wetter, colder and drier times in their history. I know sci-fi directors only have so much time and resources and having a single biome planet makes them easily recognizable and easier for the audience to understand but still! I want to see some damn variety!
*ahem* rant over....
Thanks! The trick is just blending them together.
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Ha ha, that's a lot, so I'll just say that I completely agree with you
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Exactly! We need greater planet diversity! Not just 1-biome-earth planets. Larger planets, smaller planets, extremely hot/cold planets, different composition, no tectonics, too much tectonics, denser atmospheres, gas giants, super earths, neptune like worlds, exomoons....theres so much to explore! To Star Wars' credit they did throw in a few different worlds, there was an ocean world and a gas planet. But still, I call bull on the always breathable atmospheres!
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Maps for tectonics and wind patterns?! Man, you're really into this one! Can't wait for more!
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Thanks! 
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