More Models + Program shot

Another quick update today, I finished all the 3Ds Max models and here are some screenshots of the renders. Remember and click to expand the images.

The Sun

Mercury

Venus

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

And finally, a shot of the program, from the perspective of Jupiter looking towards the Sun. You can see the inner four planets - Mars (top right), Earth and Venus (above the Sun) and Mercury (small dot below the Sun). I've also decided to use a different star image in my skybox, as the last one seemed a little busy and hurt the eyes - I think this one looks better.

Full technical update still to come at the end of the week.

Earth model

A full update on all the work I've done over the Christmas break will come at the end of the week, but I just wanted to post the model of the Planet Earth I've just completed:

I'm quite pleased with it. However, it should be noted that this is a render in 3Ds Max - it won't look as good as this in the program. I've managed to get it to load in the program, but it seems to be causing a lot of speed issues - a bit worrying when theres 8 other models to go!

Full update on the date system and hopefully more models to come at the end of the week.

Edit:

I've just implemented a sky box to give a starry background, and here is what the Earth model looks like in the openGL program:

Not quite as good as the render, but still pretty nice!