Earth Orbit - CRYENGINE

The colony ship is kit bashed from various 3d parts.

This means I can quickly iterate on the design in CryENGINE. Everything is simply linked to a tagpoint (null entity). Including parts I can detach and animate separately.

For the Earth I use a few different texture maps including separate maps for the clouds, and glowing city lights.

The Earth is a giant sphere in Cryengine.

The sun is simply a sphere with glow material, with a light with flare rendered over the top.