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Build a Realistic 3D Planet with Materials & Lighting

Lesson 12 of 12Spline 3DBeginner7 min

In this tutorial, you will learn how to easily create 3D planets by combining texture layers and lighting on Spline.

🌎 Final result: https://my.spline.design/planetearthdaycopy-2333a6dda7fecbc7779226b36abe6285/

Texture Maps: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marble?page=1 https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/ https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/images

What you’ll learn

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:32Making the Earth's sphere
  3. 1:00Creating the materials and lighting
  4. 1:30Adding clouds
  5. 2:00Adding the atmosphere effect
  6. 3:10Rotating the earth transition effect
  7. 4:00Fixing texture details
  8. 4:30Animating the clouds
  9. 5:08Final outcome

Related resources

  • Planet EarthTemplate
  • LightningDocument
  • Image LayerDocument
  • How state-based animation worksDocument
  • Events & InteractivityDocument

Overview

  • Spline 3D
  • 7 min
  • Beginner

Last lesson

That’s the end of Materials & Shading That Look Good.

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