Does the planet NEED to be an actual spherical object?
Can it be made smaller and moved CLOSER to camera?
If it's just needed as part of the background, making one face of a Skybox contain a 2-D planet image with sprites over the front giving the illusion of clouds will be much faster.
Can it be made smaller and moved CLOSER to camera?
If it's just needed as part of the background, making one face of a Skybox contain a 2-D planet image with sprites over the front giving the illusion of clouds will be much faster.