To me, nothing says “space” so much as a Chesley Bonestell style moonscape…
Got a lot further with heightfields today. This one is almost doing what I wanted it to do! I built the Saturn model, but used the nice texture maps provided by James Hastings-Trew at
http://planetpixelemporium.com/saturn.html. [
planetpixelemporium.com] The rocket is a curve primitive artifact, which let me mimic the sleek lines of golden age space hardware. The stars… Well, let's just say that the Scatter SOP has been getting a workout lately!