Need help with planet renders

Dune · November 24, 2016, 10:06:48 AM

I'm afraid I can't really help you any further. I would probably need to see/have the whole setup to see what goes wrong.

eapilot · November 24, 2016, 10:27:05 AM

I posted it the.tgd file in the thread.

Dune · November 24, 2016, 11:50:10 AM

I opened it again, and had another look. With the setup you have, you get a very stretched tornado cloud, but if you move the camera above the area where you need it and point it down, it's much better.
So maybe this is what you need? I don't quite understand what you want to line it up with.

eapilot · November 24, 2016, 01:05:17 PM

The camera projection method should work. Either I have something wrong setup (likely) or there is a bug in Terragen. If I project a mask through a camera, like other 32 application that supports camera projection, the mask I provided should line up like this. The mask was created with this camera shot in mind.

Dune · November 25, 2016, 02:34:31 AM

The projection should be perpendicular to the planet's surface with a 'flat' mask like that, or you get a very stretched mask, but in my adapted file that works. Only thing is to find the right location for the camera; height (for size, or change the image map's size) and XZ for the place where you want it. But you can move the cam around however you want, or angle it when needed.

eapilot · November 25, 2016, 01:07:36 PM

@Dune, I actually figured it out. I found some info from an old forum thread here. http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,14464.msg141354.html#msg141354
You have to adjust the pivot to the center and the position to 0.5, 0.5,0. The size has to be the same aspect ratio as the image and camera.

Now I have to figure out how to control the noise of the global clouds to make them look real!

Oshyan · November 25, 2016, 09:49:39 PM

Glad you got this sorted out.

- Oshyan

Dune · November 26, 2016, 03:00:54 AM

Only now do I understand what you were after (projecting onto clouds from POV), and I could have told you that after all. But good that you figured it out. But if you do that the vortex will be perpendicular to the POV, a bit strange I'd say, unless you look down, kind of. In your example it indeed seems like the vortex is not 'flat', but on an angle with the planet's surface.