We have an epic freebie for you, courtesy of my friend Aharon Rabinowitz (twitter.com/ABAOProductions)
Instantly add planets to your Unreal Engine scene. This drag-and-drop blueprint makes it easy to add a planet with atmosphere, city lights, clouds and more. Use the provided textures or your own.
Drag and Drop 8K Earth
Easily changed to any planet by swapping out the textures (not included)
Light Reactive Atmosphere (visible only in light)
Light-reactive emissive/city lights – Choose to only show city lights or other emissive features only when in shadow.
These include textures for Earth, Mars and the Moon from NASA, Aharon and solarsystemscope.com.
You can also get free sci-fi planet textures here.
The textures are all free to use in your professional work, under creative commons 4.0 (requires attribution). The blueprint is also free to be used in any professional work and requires no attribution.
Textures are distributed under Attribution 4.0 International license: You may use, adapt, and share these textures for any purpose, even commercially.
The Earth textures and Mars textures require attribution to Solar Textures. In addition, you may need to credit NASA for any of these textures, as all of them are derived from their data.
We’ve designed this to be super easy to use and drag-and-drop ready. Quickly create texture based planets in a few clicks! You can instantly add planets and globes to your next project with this free Unreal blueprint.
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You will receive this Unreal blueprint, but you’ll also get our 400+ other 3D freebies as well!
Since you’re an Unreal user, make sure to check out our Unreal Materials for Motion Graphics! We also have a full lineup of packs which I think you will love. Good luck with your projects!