Question Where to start on a shader for planets like this.

Hi All.

Shaders is not my thing. I do know very little about them. Help here on how I can get a shader to generate a planet in this style below? Possible animate them as in the video.

Watch the first 30 Seconds. You will see the planets rotate

 

Short version is you just lerp between scrolling textures.

You need some fancy texture for clouds, you probably want two of them to create paralax effect when you scroll them so one should scroll faster than the other, then mask the whole thing with circle (it can be circle texture).
Simple example:

I used linear noise textures instead of patterns and separate color nodes, but you can use texture alpha to lerp between layers and use the rgb of texture as color.

 

WOW Thank you!. Will work on this. use yours as a base. I see what you are doing with it! Thank you kindly. Will Post again here once I am happy with some changes I made