Planetwide scene

[meldon]

Thank you nvseal... and Rich2 for asking.  I was going to be asking that question myself eventually.  By the way Rich2, after playing a couple minutes, you're going to have to create two surface shaders, one for each pole.  The minimum slope of one will be 0 and the max and fuzzy zone dependent on how big you want the pole; while the other is going to have a max of around 180.

[neon22]

How about some tectonic plates.
Use these to divide between oceans and major landmasses.
Different masses could have different features.
May help to make the planets less amorphous.
See attached clip
Scale needs to be big. 1E6 to 1E7 is good range for earth sized planet

[RichTwo]

This is what I like to see - you all sure have put a lot more work into your projects that I have mine.

This is a concept of mine - terraforming a desert world.  I'm kind of liking how the clouds turned out.  They're chaotic, and have a hint of the Coriolus effect.  And completely unintentional on my part.  That was a shot in the dark. 

The .tgc does not include the water sphere, but that's easy enough for anyone to add.  Have a go at it, and maybe yours will be better than mine (wouldn't take much for that...)

Thanks again y'all!

[meldon]

Hey Rich2, I DO like that.  The clouds especially.  They don't have the quality and realism of, say, the stuff I've seen out of nvseal - or at least, I don't know how good they would look with a closer shot.  But that almost makes them better.  They fit your world.

oK, so I got a little distracted from my original focus with the polar ice cap things....  But I've played around with them a bit, and I have a couple that semi please me.  I wanted to post (low quality; 2.5 detail, AA 3) pictures of each pole, with and without ice, as well as a better quality closeup of one pole.  Maybe you guys could provide suggestions on how to make them more realistic.  Especially the pole that is mostly water.  I don't need anything super-fancy at the moment, since my main focus still IS geological features, aka mountains.

[rcallicotte]

nvseal, your work never ceases to amaze me.  "Keep going!" he shouts from the rear.

[vooood]

Wow this is perfect. I would definitely like to see a more detailed guide!

[Rissien]

Sorry for necro but wanting to create some planetary scenes and I really dont know what is meant with the numbers like this.  3e+006 What is that?

[FrankB]

it's 3 by 10 to the power of 6.

so 3.000.000

[Rissien]

Thanks, never really cared even for Algenbra or Geometry and havnt taken any college yet after i graduated.

[Tangled-Universe]

Thanks, never really cared even for Algenbra or Geometry and havnt taken any college yet after i graduated.

Me neither, but luckily it hasn't have to do with any of these, it's just the scientific notation of these numbers in order to prevent writing lots of zeroes for example...

[Kadri]

In fact this is one thing i would like that Planetside changed . It makes sometimes hard to change the controls .
I don't like it this way and i think most of the user think like me ; maybe you too Martin ?

[cyphyr]

I'm happy as it is, it has taken me a while to work out, unless you have a math brain its not obvious, maybe a simple text written out below 1e+006 = 1,000,000 for example.
I would like to do basic math in the numeric input boxes though, +-*/. It would be sweet to be able to change a bunch of values by a third say without having to workout separately what a third of 145,867 actually is for example.

Richard

[Kadri]

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I would like to do basic math in the numeric input boxes though, +-*/. It would be sweet to be able to change a bunch of values by a third say without having to workout separately what a third of 145,867 actually is for example.

Richard

Not many programs have this feature like , Lightwave 
But i don't see the point that everyone has to now what 3e+006 means . It is more of a programmers thing .

[leafspring]

Honestly I'd rather like to see a 2e+011 than a 200000000000 and count the zeros. 

[TheBlackHole]

Try this TGD I made a few weeks ago: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=9428.0