Rendering realistic satellite view style terrain with OpenGL

[johnvanvliet]

i use blender's built in engine or Celestia ( space sim)

like these renders of the Minor planet "Ceres" from the Dawn mission data
-- Blender cycles


or these renderings of a KBO ( kuiper belt objects )
-- Blender cycles





or these 3d renderings done in Celestia ( but the textures were created in Blender )
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/vi....php?f=4&t=878


and this
100% generated and rendered in blender procedural nodes

[denisv]

Thanks, this looks quite awesome! Unfortunatelly there is no way to translate Blender nodes setup to shader code, so that means I'll have to bake the texture and still use it as premade texture (been there done that!), which I want to avoid at all costs