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4. Make a sphere about one tenth the size of the Earth planet and click M. Create a random material as before in the diffuse A column. Find a texture that looks like a cratered moon surface and thats the moon complete. If the craters look too far apart or there are none, try increasing the noise. To do this, click the M and click the pinkish button on your moon material. Click the noise button, then drag the slider to the right until there are lots of craters. You may also want to set your moon texture from World Space to Spherical so it fits the sphere properly. If the texture is too bright, decrease the ambience or diffusion using the controls.
5. To make the red giant star, make a sphere. Click M and then create a random material in the diffuse A column. Then find the texture Red Giant (under Rocks). Then click in the ambient A column. Give the sphere maximum diffusion and ambience using the sliders. Also make it fuzzy like we did on the Earth's atmosphere. Click the tick to exit the materials editor. Now copy and paste this sphere and make it a little larger, then align the two spheres as before. Select the outer sphere and click M. Click the coloured oval next to diffuse and give it a red/orange colour. Do this for ambient, specular, specular halo and transparent. Now give the sphere about 40 diffusion, 100 ambience and 50 specularity. Make the tranparency about 50 also. Make sure fuzzy is also on. Now the red giant is complete!
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