Opinion on Planets

[Raging Deadstar]

Emperor Fritsch the Dense said:
nice looking, where can i get a link to DL some planets like that? before you say make them yourself i have 0 skills in that area
Emperor Fritsch the Dense

Well as soon as I find out which ones I need to make for the imagemod i'll have them done hopefully within the next week, probably less if i have as much free time as i do at the moment.

David. I Have to admit there i prefer bryce. Lunar cell, although it does add texture i think they look terrible (not all the time, some textures it adds are very nice, but the one below is not that good) and also the clouds are quite nasty if they have an edge. It can be limited, as you can see in the ones i did i tried to keep the texture to a medium where it wouldn't look too bad.

I do have a program called Terragen which renders planets but have yet to use it. I'll be trying it out soon so I'll give everyone an update there.

If anyone has a list of Planet types i need to render please contact me so i can get started.

[David E. Gervais]

Hello, again

The main point that I was making is that you can use LunarCell to make Planet textures for use in 3d Apps or games. You'll notice that the sample below is in the right size and form as the planet textures in Starfury. (which is the same engine used in SE5) So, if you want to creat all new planets, making textures for them is a cinch with Lunarcell.


FYI 2.0.. this type of texture can also be mapped onto a sphere created in any 3d app. (ie Anim8or which is free) then rendered in that program. bryce is not the end-all be-all of programs, it's just my app of choice for rendering.

Cheers!