A Planet-Building Tutorial

[Gare]

There were some pages that needed to be cut from The Official Guide due to space considerations; ironically, one really cool tutorial was on "space"!

So I put it together as a PDF. Fee free to download and have a little fun.

A Drawing Tutorial: How to Build A Planet

My Best,

Gare

[InfoCentral]

Thanks for the additional tutorial. I guess while I am waiting for the book to arrive (Amazon just shipped it out) I can download those two tutorials and start working on them...

[Gare]

In a way, it is (or was) one of the book tutorials
I think it puts a lot of different features together. I find that when you "converge" techniques and features with Xara, the result can be more than one anticipates!

My Best,

Gare

[zaphodeist]

Thanks for the freebie Gary

[stygg2003]

There were some pages that needed to be cut from The Official Guide due to space considerations; ironically, one really cool tutorial was on "space"!

So I put it together as a PDF. Fee free to download and have a little fun.

A Drawing Tutorial: How to Build A Planet

My Best,

Gare

Thanks for the PDF Gare. I did a planet sometime ago but I can't for the life of me find the xar.file

Stygg

[Spinny]

I haven't looked at your .pdf tutorial yet, but I ginned this up just playing around with the material actually included in Chapter 5...

[Spinny]

And here's a question for you guys. Attached is the .xar file for the above jpeg. I'm wondering why I can't apply a profile to the transparency of the ice caps object (the arrow is greyed out), yet I can for the shadows and the fractal clouds transparencies. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[steve.ledger]

Planet Xtremus and it's two moons, Xarian and Camelot.




Thanks for the inspiration Gare.

[jvila]

Planet Xtremus and it's two moons, Xarian and Camelot.




Thanks for the inspiration Gare.

Wow Steve, Your planets rocks.
Very well done

[handrawn]

I'm wondering why I can't apply a profile to the transparency of the ice caps object (the arrow is greyed out), yet I can for the shadows and the fractal clouds transparencies.

its a multi-stage transparency would be my guess - don't think you can profile those - same with muti-stage fills - yes?