Even if I had to set everything in high quality etc etc before the 1 hour long rendering, i managed to forget to increase the polySmooth value in my model :)
that's all about the tesselation... and...

i am working on this image the last few weeks and I think I am almost finished with it. yesterday I did a rendering in a very high resolution (3500x3200) so I can print it in a A4, but i noticed that...

thanx for you comments....
the earth texture is just a file i've d/l from a scientific site and its about 2000x1000 or something(i am not sure) which i put it in photoshop and changes the hue of...

just a raph render...
i changed the earth map and i also put a slightly bigger and semi trasparent sphere for an atmosphere.
i think now its more obvious that the planet is polluted right?
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hehe... yea actually i wasnt trying to make it look like plastic PVC or something but i ended up with that... you know when you work too much on the same thing, its hard to notice some important...

i am working on this image the last two weeks and I need a few advices about the final look. My primary idea was to put something to look like smoke or gasses so to make the earth look really...