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Title: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: Sethren on December 17, 2007, 03:38:41 PM
Try to replace all of these worlds with Terragen 2 versions?   

http://www.sttff.net/planetaryclass.html
Title: Re: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: zionner on December 17, 2007, 03:58:02 PM
I....guess I could try..?
Title: Re: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: Sethren on December 17, 2007, 04:18:22 PM
No one has to try at this. It was just an idea. More or less i was wanting to see if it is possible to have Gas Giants in Terragen perhaps using the strata node for large scale cloud bands? I have to look into this to see what is possible here.
Title: Re: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: zionner on December 17, 2007, 05:10:04 PM
I might give it a go when the school holidays start, so I wont have time to try it till Friday
Title: Re: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: nvseal on December 17, 2007, 05:22:37 PM
Quote from: Sethren on December 17, 2007, 04:18:22 PM
No one has to try at this. It was just an idea. More or less i was wanting to see if it is possible to have Gas Giants in Terragen perhaps using the strata node for large scale cloud bands? I have to look into this to see what is possible here.

I've been working on a gas giant. It's ony in its early stages right now. Nice idea for a challenge too.
Title: Re: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: Sethren on December 17, 2007, 06:28:04 PM
What i think would be hard is having several variations of cloud band types each with there own turbulence structure and colors along several layers of Latitude.
Title: Re: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: Oshyan on December 17, 2007, 09:35:29 PM
It's actually fairly easy to create gas giant cloud formations by stretching your cloud fractal along the planet's longitude. You can of course use multiple layers with different altitudes and colors, and even get some swirling patterns with the warping functions in the fractal. The results can be pretty good, although I was working on an Earth-sized planet and really it should have had a much larger atmosphere. It would be fun to see if you could actually pull off a Jupiter-sized planet with atmosphere all the way down.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: A new Terragen 2 project challenge?
Post by: Sethren on December 17, 2007, 11:38:04 PM
That easy huh.  ;D
Well, i have not seen anyone do this yet so i guess i'll be one of the few. I have no idea how to go about the whole longitude part.