My first space background...

[Akumayo]

Excellent!  I'll download it immediately!

[seaduck]

Hey, interesting picture!

I don't like the sun being cut in quarter by the corner of the image - that's not a good composition.

From a stellar-mechanics point of view:

1. Most planets AND their moons orbit roughly in the same plane - the ecliptical plane (or a few degrees +-). Your orbital planes are totally random.

2. The star/planet/moon sizes seem rather off (even when accointing for perspective)
- AFAIK complex moon systems could not survive too close to the sun (and your sun seems too close/big)
- Your system has a star, a planet, moons and a second-order moon. For such a complicated system not to fall apart it is vital that SUN SIZE >> PLANET SIZE >> MOON SIZE >> 2.ORDER MOON SIZE (>> .. much greater than) and also SUN-PLANET DISTANCE >> PLANET-MOON DISTANCE >> MOON-2.O.M DISTANCE

Haddas: Nice paintover, I'm not a fan of all those nebulae/gasses in the starfields because that's definitely NOT how space looks like. White stars on black background is what it looks like, it's portrayed IMO perfectly e.g in Star Trek and Star Wars and looks cool.

[Haddas]

Haddas: Nice paintover, I'm not a fan of all those nebulae/gasses in the starfields because that's definitely NOT how space looks like. White stars on black background is what it looks like, it's portrayed IMO perfectly e.g in Star Trek and Star Wars and looks cool.

Fair enough. I know what space looks like, however I wasn't reaching for realism, but prettiness. I'm still proud abut how the sun came out though...

[fred]

Using space as a game background, is reason enough to make it visually interesting, so I think you made the right choice.

Space is infinite, right, so who knows what it looks like? I think that towards the center of a galaxy, dust and nebulae will actually be visible. Earth is on the outer rim of our galaxy, but the Milky Way can still be seen as a somewhat denser white belt across the sky.

Of course there was Douglas Adams, who was convinced that from some far away point in space, all the stars would line up on the sky to form a very rude word. I'd take his word, if anyone's, on the matter.

[Nikolas]

As it happen I was toying with photoshop and a tutorial given by Darth and ended up with this:


Just to make this thread a little slower...

[Sean]

Link me off to the tutorial?

Might come in handy for backgrounds and site template design.

[Akumayo]

Hrm... Seaduck makes a few excellent points... I'll have to post an updated image soon.Ã,  Once I re-tackle this image...

EDIT:

In this I took darth's shading advice and did my best to follow seaduck's distance advise.Ã,  I'll say, it looks much much more realistic, but now it sort of looks like there's some kind of planetary alignment going on.Ã,  I tried moving the golden 2 moon between the main moon and the large planet, but it just looked strange then.Ã,  I'll keep trying.Ã,  (Added white orbital lines to show planet/moon intended movement)



Things to be done:
-Shade the golden moon properly (not yet becuase needs to moved around some)
-Figure out a way to make the sun not look stupid

[scourge]

Nikolas, you seem to have the artist's touch ... or it's just an excellent tutorial 

[Haddas]

Nikolas, What tutorial are you using? LINK PLZ!!1

What I've done without the tutorials:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/Haddas/starstars.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/Haddas/deargodtoomany.jpg

and

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3894/fail0qx.jpg

[Nikolas]

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html

Buloght, Haddas, you have repsonded to the thread where I foudn this. You must've seen this.

There you go Sean! Enjoy guys!