Northern Summer Clouds!!

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Northern Summer Clouds!!

Post #1by Don. Edwards » 14.08.2003, 06:27

Well the Northern Summer Clouds are nearly finished. I wanted to post screen shots last night but Comcast in all their wisdom has done it again and pulled another 24 hour rolling black-out on my internet connection. It just came back on 20 minutes ago. And yes I am getting rather ticked with them. But there is nothing I can do at this point.
So here are some shots of the new Northern Summer Cloudmap.

Hurricanes lined up for no good.
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A super Typhoon approaching the Philippines.
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Another shot of the Typhoon.
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The famous San Francisco fog over the Golden Gate.
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A nasty Hurricane over Cuba.
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This texture is based on the BlueMarble 8k Cloudmap. Resized to 4k and then various pictures of real Hurricanes and Typhoons were blended in. Add a little bumpmaping and some of my other depth tricks and we see the results.
I should have it ready shortly. All comments welcome as always

Don.

Addendum.
I have been playing with the haze coloring for Earth. Here are 2 shots of the 16k texture with new clouds and the modified haze settings.
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It has often been mentioned that my Earth texture’s water often looked a little to dark. Well this proves that a simple adjustment in the haze settings can change the whole look of that dark water. 8O
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Post #2by John Van Vliet » 14.08.2003, 10:41

I love the shots lots of detail
what size cloud map 4096x2048.png ?

i reread your post and ansered my ? 4k
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Post #3by Don. Edwards » 15.08.2003, 06:31

Hey Jonh,
The cloudmap is a 4k x 2k .dds resized down from an 8k x 4k tiff. If only Celestia could do 8k cloudmaps. Maybe in a future version. When I release it it will be in both .png and .dds.

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Post #4by don » 17.08.2003, 06:05

Howdy Don E.,

Just a "heads up" ... If you have any Hurricanes in the Southern Hemisphere, just make sure they are spinning clockwise, instead of counter-clockwise <smile>.

-Don G.
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Post #5by Don. Edwards » 17.08.2003, 08:36

Yes I am aware of how the coriolis effect works on clouds in the hemispheres. I have a very nice southern super typhoon to plug-in for the southern summer cloudmap. It is truly impressive and totally real.
Here is a sample sot of it.
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I don't know witch typhoon this was but it has control of clouds over a thousand miles away.

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Post #6by don » 17.08.2003, 08:56

Wow, that is one impressive typhoon! Thanks Don :)
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Post #7by fsgregs » 19.08.2003, 00:28

Don, I love the blue ocean color in the modified haze settings. Please, what haze setting are you using?

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