Procedural Planet in Blender 3.0

This is a fully procedural high-detail planet made with geometry and shader nodes and designed for Cycles in Blender 3.0 beta. The node trees are fairly simple to understand for intermediate Blender users, and annotated for customization. This blend file requires a very strong machine and may render very slow on weaker systems. Lowering the subdivisions in the geometry nodes for the planet mesh can help the viewport on slower/older machines at the cost of planet detail. Average render times with b3d 3.0 beta per frame in full view at 1080p are: ~60s on an RTX 2070, ~30s in a RTX 3090, ~20m on an i9 CPU.

License: This is a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 file.

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