The Sun

[DonAVP]

Take a look at the procedural textures. You find them by clicking the 'T' in any one of the surface channels. At the top of the next window next to 'Layer Type' change 'Image Map' to 'Procedural Textures'. Further down you will see 'Procedural Type' select that and you will see a long list of prefinded textures. These are mathmatical expressions that create repeatable patterns. There is more here than I can possably(sp) cover (read the manual). These will give you the qualities of a boiling/hot/dyanmic sun surface. Have fun

Don

[pdrake]

use a gradient and the turbulence procedural.

proton has a tutorial on gradients that will show you how.

not sure where it is right off the bat.

[Carm3D]

Rent the movie "Frequency." It has special features that show how they made a sun as well as another documentary about the sun, and sigmoids.

Spiderman 2 had a very cool looking sun in it too.

[JohnMarchant]

Try going to LWG3D, they have about 2 or 3 in the mesh downloads section, mostly animated procedurals and particles. Download them and have a look at how they were done, Hope this Helps

Regards John

[SplineGod]

Heres a sun I did way back in LW5.6 days. It was done only with geometry and procedurals. I did it that way because it took a lot less time to render then using HVs and I had a lot better control over what was happening. :)
http://www.3dtrainingonline.com/anims/annie_sun.avi

[philou]

if you're looking for a tut, go to http://www.puppydoodle.biz/tutorials/Boiling_Suns.htmhope this helps. :)

philippe

[peterpro]

right on! is that the dan dare anistaia flying in there?
=)

[SplineGod]

yes that would be :)

[phone33]

thx for the help guys

[duke]

You could probably get some nice geometric detail going with that AVT displacement plugin aswell..

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