Well. Decided, what the hell, I just started using this and it's fascinating. I've already learned a few things that can help, so I'll just have my progress written here, along with my work.

As of now, I've created a "planet". Still needs much work. If you have any tips, I'd be greatly appreciative. I especially need to know how to smooth the rim of the ring around the planet, as it is sharp. I want it to be like an actual ring around it...


New Progress...

-Drew up some plans for a building, and started constructing in Blender, planning to be finished with it around January 10th-12th. Current progress at the very bottom.
-Fixed planet roughness, new model.
-Working on some sort of turret/gun, will decide what it is later.
-Building is taking on a Middle-Eastern design, with my own added touches. Did a nice bit of work on it.
-Replaced monkey with one with eyes and pupils.

It'd be easier if you went over to www.blenderartists.org , you'd get all the support you'd need.

Thanks for the information, guys.


EDIT: Kit, your link is broken.
But I found website anyways.

Yeah, same here, haha. Well, I just started creating my building. Posted above.

You should use more curve resolution on that ring, for one. It's too jaggy.

You'll have to get another torus or use a NURBs torus. Or you could take a slightly longer road, which I'd take myself.

What I'd do is throw on a flat polygonal circle and paint up a 32-bit (so it can have transparency) TGA of the rings in Photoshop then UV map that onto the texture. If the outer ring on the texture doesn't meet the edge of the circle, you don't need too much curve resolution in the geometry.

However, I'm guessing you're trying to do everything using procedural textures.

Curve resolution shouldn't matter as long as you can't see straight edges, around 100 does the trick. And besides, if the texture doesn't meet up, you can re-size the UV map easily.