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I use Celestia for my backgrounds and Terregan for my landscapes. Throw in a little PS and wala!

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dallas59 wrote:I use Celestia for my backgrounds and Terregan for my landscapes. Throw in a little PS and wala!

Hello dallas59, my compliments, very very nice images, thank you for sharing them.
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Andrea

Thanks Puppy! I only have PS2 Elements but Celestia and Terragen do the dirty work for me already.

PS post work

Beautiful! Especially the ice-geysir on Triton.
Here is my attempt on Pluto
(which is not made with a typical terrain-renderer and hence semi-sucks )

ArneB wrote:Beautiful! Especially the ice-geysir on Triton

These shots are absolutely incredible.
I?m trying to go a different direction, and add some rudimentary landscaping to Celestia worlds. Naturally, it has to be a *lot* simpler than this, else the polygon count will make my computer overheat and generate thick, black smoke...

Here?s a screenshot from Ran II: it?s just a high-level virtual texture with a very simple 3ds mountain model. It looks good from a distance, but rather rough close up:


- rthorvald

Runar,

The problem with landscaping planets in Celestia is just that, the poly count...Im sure when Chris implements something like the ROAM or SOAR engine to celestia we will see impressive landscapes equal to terragen at real time rendering...The ROAM/SOAR engines render only the polygons the camera faces and tesselates (subdivides into more polygons) those ploys that the camera is closest to.

Rassilon wrote:something like the ROAM or SOAR engine to celestia

I want one of those for christmas. I really, really do.

-rthorvald

Me too!