WIP - Earth From Space

Started by Ogre, August 14, 2007, 09:26:00 AM

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Ogre

A Quick WIP of Earth From Space using the Textures, cloud patterns and Bump maps from the NASA BLue marble web site.
"If you find me feeding daisies
please turn my face up to the sky and leave me be watching the moon roll by.
What ever I was it was all because I've been on the town washing the BS down."

-Gordon Lightfoot

rcallicotte

Pretty cool.  This is in TG2TP?
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

Ogre

#2
Yes.  Its a WIP that I am working through using the resources at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.html

They have Hi-def images of earth including topography, clouds and lights at night.  I am working on the clouds now to try and give them more detail.

Heres tjhe latest image with a new cloud pattern and settings plus ocean reflections.  The current WIP has 4 suns to test reflectivity from various directions.
"If you find me feeding daisies
please turn my face up to the sky and leave me be watching the moon roll by.
What ever I was it was all because I've been on the town washing the BS down."

-Gordon Lightfoot

moodflow

Nice work!

The only problem I see is the texture map is not high enough res, thus the detail is softened on the city lights and ground details.

Otherwise, this is pretty cool. 
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Ogre

I agree that the resolution is not the best but it isn't for close up shots.  The current render of was using a 10,000x5,000 image.  The current lights image was 2,400x1,200. I have a higher res image (30,000x15,000) of the lights but it crashes TG2 right now. I am working on chopping it in 1/2 but my image processing program chokes on it as well. I need to try another program to work on it.
"If you find me feeding daisies
please turn my face up to the sky and leave me be watching the moon roll by.
What ever I was it was all because I've been on the town washing the BS down."

-Gordon Lightfoot

Oshyan

A good project and one I'm a bit familiar with myself. You may find this previous thread to be interesting: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=1175.0 I got a bit sidetracked and haven't worked on it much further, but I will definitely revisit it in the future. In the meantime keep it up!

- Oshyan

Ogre

I took a look at the thread. Looks like you guys are light years ahead of me.  I will keep plugging away until I can get the results you are getting  :)

For the his res images. I downsized the 21600x10800 to a 10000x5000 image and then cut it in half for 2  5000x5000 images.  I then mapped then to each 1/2 of the globe and that seemed to work (Yes I am using Windows not a Mac)
"If you find me feeding daisies
please turn my face up to the sky and leave me be watching the moon roll by.
What ever I was it was all because I've been on the town washing the BS down."

-Gordon Lightfoot