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Hi

I have got Lunarcell which is a great program for creating planet textures and their cloud maps and bump maps but i was wondering...

I have seen other people's textures and it looks like they have been whipped up like heaven. In others words they are far far better than my textures. It has been bugging me now for a long while to find out how these textures can be done, some I understand are homemade but there must be another program just like lunarcell that does these wonders of art.

It would be alot of help if anyone can give me links to these other programs and I would like to know one more thing... what is blue-marble ?

Thanks for helping out

MN-Mr Noob

Mr Noob wrote:...but there must be another program just like lunarcell that does these wonders of art...

Yep, that would be great, but unfortunately, only a huge amount of hours working hard on Photoshop or Gimp can deliver you one of these "wonders of art"...

some I understand are homemade but there must be another program just like lunarcell that does these wonders of art.

No, there is no program that can substitute a brain and tons of hours of manual work, at least not in this field.

However, there are programs that can help you if you want to do real maps. Like here: http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=194

- rthorvald

Is This what you are Talking about : BlueMarble

Several sites have tutorials on creating planetary surface texture images.

Two such sites that I'm aware of are
http://www.solarvoyager.com/
and
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/

Mr Noob wrote:Hi

I have got Lunarcell which is a great program for creating planet textures and their cloud maps and bump maps but i was wondering...

Thanks for mentioning this plug-in. It's turning out to be much much better than fractal world explorer for making planet textures.

Does anyone use planet editor?

Tuefish wrote:Does anyone use planet editor?

I don't. I never seen it before. Is it good?

It's a fractal generator, but it's fairly easy to adjust it so that it draws in two colors, that way you can select the continents in photoshop/paintshop and paint over them.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u110 ... celand.png
I like it.

Tuefish wrote:

Does anyone use planet editor?

I searched for this but could not find it.
Where can one get this to try out?
Thanks
Tim

If this is the same one Tuefish is talking about it is here : [url=http://orbiter.dansteph.com/?news=79]Planet texture generator
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Nastytang wrote:

If this is the same one Tuefish is talking about it is here : Planet texture generator

yes, that is the same one, and just to clarify, the picture I linked to was processed by me in photoshop.

Tuefish wrote:Nastytang wrote:

If this is the same one Tuefish is talking about it is here : Planet texture generator

yes, that is the same one, and just to clarify, the picture I linked to was processed by me in photoshop.

Yeah I at least saw that you had use another program on it,.... If you don`t mind can you tell us how to do that I have adobe Photoshop CS2 and I`ll be honest I have no ideal what I`m doing with it !!!

not being a graphic editor I just don`t now anything !!!

I did this in about ten minutes with the magic wand and flood fill tools, and a satellite photo. It's pretty rough, but I hope you get the idea. I used two stock patterns and one custom pattern (from the satellite image) after selecting the respective land/mountainous regions on 71% in magic wand. Then just filled in the areas.
Edit: PS. I used photoshop elements 5.0

i came across that (Planet texture generator ) about 3 years ago i think , to bad it only makes 8 bit images

I recommend anybody who has not yet tried LunarCell to do so. It is not only good for making planet textures but it will also make bump maps, spec textures, and city light textures in just a few clicks.

Thanks again MrNoob for telling me about this!

Tuefish wrote:I did this in about ten minutes with the magic wand and flood fill tools, and a satellite photo. It's pretty rough, but I hope you get the idea. I used two stock patterns and one custom pattern (from the satellite image) after selecting the respective land/mountainous regions on 71% in magic wand. Then just filled in the areas.
Edit: PS. I used photoshop elements 5.0

yes thanks i guess i need to learn more about the programs I have so that i can do this too thanks again Tuefish

i came across that (Planet texture generator ) about 3 years ago i think , to bad it only makes 8 bit images

yes John the generator had or has the start to be a good editor I wish they would have develop it more

Reiko I have LunarCell it does clouds too for your planet to add to what you have said about it ,... but I have not have much luck with it getting the look I want out of it !!!

Here is a nice planet texture generator. PlanetGen

I have the original source code for the 1.0 version if anyone wants it. I will tell you that the released code is very inefficient and suck up a lot of memory. As in even with 2GB RAM you cant render an image later then 1K

Nastytang wrote:

Tuefish wrote:I did this in about ten minutes with the magic wand and flood fill tools, and a satellite photo. It's pretty rough, but I hope you get the idea. I used two stock patterns and one custom pattern (from the satellite image) after selecting the respective land/mountainous regions on 71% in magic wand. Then just filled in the areas.
Edit: PS. I used photoshop elements 5.0

yes thanks i guess i need to learn more about the programs I have so that i can do this too thanks again Tuefish

i came across that (Planet texture generator ) about 3 years ago i think , to bad it only makes 8 bit images

yes John the generator had or has the start to be a good editor I wish they would have develop it more

Reiko I have LunarCell it does clouds too for your planet to add to what you have said about it ,... but I have not have much luck with it getting the look I want out of it !!!

Just curious: How do you make the texture seamless? The demo version doesn't permit it, even with the angles perpendicular to the layer's plane. Perhaps the full version does?