Software for Planets Texture Creation

[GregPenn (Greg Penninck)]

Hope the materials & textures go well

For the ground you can use either a tiling texture made in Photoshop / Corel something like

http://www.techmonkeybusiness.com/creating-seamless-spherical-textures.html

Or you can get textures like this

http://planetpixelemporium.com/earth.html

Spiral Graphics - Free Seamless Planet Textures

and loads of links here to

Planet Texture Generator

Cheers

Greg