Semi-OT: making planets.

[Timstone]

I'm terribily sorry for using a bmp. I'll use a nasty jpg from now on. I just hate jpg, it really craps your pic up. Give me bmp of tif, but I was unable to opload a tif.

It's a real 3D scene. The goal was to make a nice planet with a transparent atmosphere. Well, I say I succeded in that. I was hoping you guys like the pic. When you guys give me some feedback I may produce more planets.

[Ragnarok]

Timstone, save the file as PNG instead of BMP or JPG. It loses just a tad of quality of the BMP but you can hardly notice the difference.

And the whole shortening of my nick...You can call me Rags all you want. I was referring to calling the second coming of me, Ragnarok-X, Rags instead of myself. My whole attempt was to confuse you and it must have worked.

[Fyron]

Ragnarok said:
Timstone, save the file as PNG instead of BMP or JPG. It loses just a tad of quality of the BMP but you can hardly notice the difference.

Actually the entire purpose of the PNG format is to have lossless compression. Avoid JPG at all costs! Also, don't listen to David Gervais when he chimes in to tout his JPG compression algorithms... they still have some color loss.

[Timstone]

Okay, I'll use PNG from now on. Thanks for the advise.
But what about the pic itself, any comment?

[David E. Gervais]

Imperator Fyron said:
...Avoid JPG at all costs! Also, don't listen to David Gervais when he chimes in to tout his JPG compression algorithms... they still have some color loss.

David casts his wrath.. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Lightning.gif[/img] See Fyron run.. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Running.gif[/img] When Fyron rounds the corner David smacks him with a [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Fish.gif[/img]

JAY-PEG! JAY-PEG! JAY-PEG!

BTW Fyron is right, there is a slight color loss when I save a .jpg, but by giving the 'color and saturation' priority and choosing 1x1x1 instead of the 2x1x1 default compression, the loss is about 0.025% If that's not good enough I feel sorry for you fyron. (FYI: Perfection is an illusion easilly influenced by spiritual beliefs.)

Cheers!

[Raging Deadstar]

Ragnarok said:
And the whole shortening of my nick...You can call me Rags all you want. I was referring to calling the second coming of me, Ragnarok-X, Rags instead of myself. My whole attempt was to confuse you and it must have worked.

So you have a second coming?

Is Rags a Prophet or Messiah? Will he bring about a new religion or the end of the world? Will he be shot before he causes more trouble than he's worth? Find out next week....

And the Picture is dam pretty

[Timstone]

Raging Deadstar said:

So you have a second coming?

Is Rags a Prophet or Messiah? Will he bring about a new religion or the end of the world? Will he be shot before he causes more trouble than he's worth? Find out next week....

And the Picture is dam pretty

I say shoot the bastard. But that's only because of the fact that I love to shoot (I've been shooting since I was 11 or so, I have a licence since I was 18, that's 7 years now).

Thanks for the comment RD!
I'll soon post more pics.

[XenoTheMorph]

Well Timstone the planet is great and I truly do like it!

I can only find two things to comment on, and only by being a perfectionistic git.

1. The cloud fronts at the poles don't quite ring true, they should be infuenced more by the planets rotation (coriolis force sp?) and should generally be curved around the pole.

2. Why are a few areas green (and only in the north hemisphere), not the 'normal' colour of the world?

[Timstone]

Thanks for the comment.
Here are some answers:
1) I can't control it very accurate. I'll try with the next planet. I can't garantuee this.
2) The few area's that are green are related to the huge amount of desert and ice I chose to form this world. I'll remedy that with the next planet.

On to the next planet! Again a Rock Oxygen.

[Timstone]

Okay, I've got a few more planets to show.
This will be more than one post. Jippie, this cranks up my number of Posts.
First up a rock hydrogen planet.