generating textures

[skarlath]

So ive been trying to find a way to get textures from tg2 planets, baiscly by placing a camera inside the planet and rendering 6faces and converting that to a spherical map. Now this method dosnt work with the tg2 planets or sphere objects because they arnt double sided, the only way ive found is by creating a geosphere in a 3d app with a ton of polys (4-6 or more million) this is a very crude method though. Does anyone know of a better method?.

[stgermain]

Have you tried to give the planet a negative radius? I suppose the normals would then point inwards an you would see the surface from within the planet.

[skarlath]

huh never thought of that, ill give it a go

[Dune]

You need some light inside then!

[skarlath]

yup it works perfectly, just flip the planet, turn off the sun and put a bright light source inside the planet and render

[bobbystahr]

yup it works perfectly, just flip the planet, turn off the sun and put a bright light source inside the planet and render

Now if only underwater had such an easy option as underground, heh heh heh

[TheBadger]

Im curious about this topic.
Can you tell me what you were trying to make a texture of exactly. And how to you use this new texture?

Thanks.