Silly Mars question.
Posted: 10.10.2017, 19:25
I have seen various pictures of "Wet Mars" on the internet.
One that shows the lowlands filled with water.
Does anyone have that as a texture?
I would like to play with it in Celestia just to see what it looks like.
I know the answer is probably no, but I thought it worth checking on.
My other choice is learning how mod depth maps, which is a lot more work than not being afraid to ask a silly question first.
Who knows, I may not be the first to have had the thought.
Janus.
One that shows the lowlands filled with water.
Does anyone have that as a texture?
I would like to play with it in Celestia just to see what it looks like.
I know the answer is probably no, but I thought it worth checking on.
My other choice is learning how mod depth maps, which is a lot more work than not being afraid to ask a silly question first.
Who knows, I may not be the first to have had the thought.
Janus.
But a bump map is the way to go then. You could process the bump map in a way that gives you something similar to a specular map we have for earth (boosting up the contrast or cutting out everthing below a certain value/height). Now you have a map than tells you which areas would be flooded with oceans, with the use of transparency you can just overlay it a regular Mars texture. 
