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Steam News19 November 20257mo ago

Devlog: Making Planets

In today's Celestial Golf developer update, I show how I created the realistic planet surfaces in the game using Blender.

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changedThe game is 2D, so we aren't importing the full 3D mesh into the game, but rendering it into a colour and normal map, so we can get realistic dynamic lighting provided by Godot's 2D renderer. I show how I go from getting the NASA terrain data, through construction and rendering in Blender, and importing into Godot.

In today's Celestial Golf developer update, I show how I created the realistic planet surfaces in the game using Blender.

The game is 2D, so we aren't importing the full 3D mesh into the game, but rendering it into a colour and normal map, so we can get realistic dynamic lighting provided by Godot's 2D renderer. I show how I go from getting the NASA terrain data, through construction and rendering in Blender, and importing into Godot.

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