Planet Surfacing

nvseal · August 27, 2007, 03:01:42 PM

This has been a little thing I've been working on for some weeks. The main goal being to create realistic looking planet surfacing up to a distance of about 100 km. It's not done, but it is close. Here are just some general renders. The first has no atmosphere so as to see the distribution (which, as you can see, I'm still working on).

nvseal · August 27, 2007, 03:03:08 PM

Another angle with atmosphere and some quick clouds from another study.

nvseal · August 27, 2007, 03:04:25 PM

An early render before oceans and plant life was added.

nvseal · August 27, 2007, 03:06:08 PM

And another angle.

old_blaggard · August 27, 2007, 03:53:23 PM

I think your clouds are the strongest part of this project right now, but I look forward to seeing where the land goes.

rcallicotte · August 28, 2007, 10:29:24 AM

From these heights, I think your textures and clouds are very good. The strength, as o_b said, is your clouds. But, the textures of the landmasses are good. Not sure how you could make them exceptional, but if this is where you're going, good luck! Great job.

Volker Harun · August 28, 2007, 10:52:12 AM

Agree with the above. It looks very promising.
For the land. I would recommend more fuzziness. Much more!
Is the texture heightsensitive?
At least two height sensitive surface shader-sets that are blended randomly is what I would go for.
Interested in coop?

nvseal · August 28, 2007, 12:51:40 PM

The surfacing is purely 2d. Though there is some diplacement, the texturing is not relative to that displacement. I agree with your suggestion about the fuzzyness. At this time I'm working on fixing the larger scale blending. I would be interested in coop, if you would like I can send you the tgd.

rcallicotte · August 28, 2007, 01:57:41 PM

Cool. I can't wait to see what you two come up with.

rcallicotte · September 07, 2007, 10:05:18 AM

Volker and nvseal -

Have you got anything for the general population yet or is this an "eyes only" project?

nvseal · September 07, 2007, 10:35:57 AM

Well, the project is pretty much on the back burner right now. Volker has sent a file back to me but between college and my cloud project, I haven't delved into it completely (although I have looked at a bit). We'll just have to wait and see. I'll probably play some more with it this weekend.

Volker Harun · September 07, 2007, 11:16:35 AM

Well, I killed all surface shaders and kept the distributions. On those some faster shaders came to work. Typically I used my kind of desaturated colours, which might be changed ,-) if not binned

rcallicotte · September 07, 2007, 02:46:31 PM

You can't rush genius.