How to Make a Planet Atmosphere in Blender (Tutorial)

I reckon this is the best atmosphere I've seen (although a little over-emphasized), especially with the style of planet I'm looking to create :)

Why is it my Sun needs to be a 50 before it starts getting super bright?

Awesome, you are very good at what you do.

I want to add country border on the earth. How can I do that?

additional too add a layer weight to the emission and set it to fresnel.

Is tgere any way to add slightly red atmosphere on the transition of day and night to make a sunset and sunrise effect?

thank you so much for this!

Genius! thank you

when i used
transparent increase fac. to 1.000 it was all black

i followed it to the T yet some how its completely flipped the atmosphere is reverse the trans, blend and black are on one side,. and the other side is fucking texturless.

Step 1: add ico sphere
Step 2: increase subdivisions to like 6 or something
Step 3: v o l u m e s c a t t e r

Thanks for the great tutorial!

Is there a way to have a gradient on the atmosphere into space? So that it fades out with distant to earth?

Hey Ryan, great tutorial! I'm having issues with losing a lot of detail to the atmosphere (in cycles). Would you have any suggestions to remedy this issue? The atmosphere gives a blurring affect to my planet texture beneath.

Amazing video! no distracting music or anything and a very satisfying voice!

godsend of a video. thanks bro

I am adding the separate XYZ node and my gradient is very sharp, it is only working with small scale object, if i increase the object scale to like1000m the gradient is very sharp. Is there in any way to fix this?

I don't know if it's a newer blender (I'm on 3.3) but the moment you get to the mix shader around 12 and a half minutes in and move the slider, I find that I can't see the planet object beneath it regardless, like the transparent isn't doing anything.

I need to apply this to a flat plane and the transparent part didnt work it was just black

it looks great, but it's missing the Rayleigh scattering, like, the thing that makes sunsets

I needed this thank you

Great trick with the Z mix factor! I never figured out how to use emission for atmosphere and have it dark in the shadows. I settled for using a diffuse sphere over the terrain sphere. I love your planet! I also made a procedural planet tutorial. They are so fun to make.

superwork as usual. Thanks.

I looooove your tutorials but I'd like to know how achieve the redish-orange color where the sunsets are created in the border of the lighted limit of light and the bouncing of that orange-red tint half lightning a tiny part of Earth. Thank You

Thank´s for this Ryan King Art..

This may come in handy for creating a crescent moon and use the gradient in the alpha channel of a moon surface and image, so that when moving the sunlight it will be transparent only on the side that isn´t lit properly.

I usually have been working with lightwave and is trying to adapt some cases to blender, in lightwave I would just use an Light incidence channel, then you are all set..by far easier than setting it up like this in blender, it would be nice if there was a simple Light incidence node/gradient..maybe there is?

For planetary atmosphere I rather prefer to use fully volumetric sphere´s, then you do not need to use any of these methods really, the atmosphere should be scatter and absorb physicly in a near similar way as the real thing, that Is what I can do in Lightwave, to some degree in blender as well.
Of course..much longer hit on render times, but I prefer stuff that looks more real.

Anyway, good samples, though the glow or the gradient may be a bit too large scaled instead of a thinner atmosphere, but then again, artistic freedom on Iceplanets are ok :)
Foremost I need to get a crescent moon working with reactions to the Light incidence/angle, so this may be it...but one important thing, it needs to react to the Nishita sky model sun, and that is built in to the backdrop skytexture, so you can´t directly use these techniquest I am afraid of when referencing object that is restrained with goals and targeting.

Nice! Is there a way to get the atmosphere to fade out with maybe a spherical gradient and volume? I've tried to do this but without success.

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ngl this channel is ridiculous 😳

👌Amazing work...sir

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Thumbs up for the best Aptnosphere!

Fantastic tutorial as always, Ryan!

I absolutely love the look of that atmosphere. Amazing work! 😃

Thank you so much for sharing with us.

You're at 85K subscribers now! Congratulations! Your hard work is paying off. It's great to see.

Happy pre-Friday to you my friend! 😃

That looks very interesting! I'm going to try it out tonight. Yeah – I did the procedural planet tutorial on Eeevee and it was laggy as hell after a while. Making the rendered view really small helped a little though. But anyway I'm more of a texture person.

Sir could u make a video about render pass and how to use them in blender compositing or after effects.

This is a nice addition to the BlenderGuru planet tutorial!

Noice

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excellent

Good day Ryan,
Hope you are doing well.
As a beginner 3D artist, at start of the video i made two predictions for myself.
One that it was done on single mesh with lots of texture work and emission in shader nodes.
Two this was done by creating identical mesh over the planet object and modifying the material of the new mesh.
I have really enjoyed this video, among the other you did, your tutorials are very insightful and simple to understand on step by step bases.
Your video also brought a good example how to use parenting and empties in scenes for the creative process more than just organizing the scene assets.

Very cool

Yay. Brilliant. Thank you Ryan.

I no that u can be my helper pls pls .is my vision to be th best animator or best actor.

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Amazing 🤩🤩

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