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.
Silly Mars question.
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I'm sure there are terraformed Mars textures out there. Personally I am not very interested in using one for Celestia, so I never have put any research into it.
What do you mean by that? There is topography data avaliable, for example https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mars/Topography/HRSC_MOLA_Blend/Mars_HRSC_MOLA_BlendDEM_Global_200mp if that helps you...
Janus wrote:My other choice is learning how mod depth maps
What do you mean by that? There is topography data avaliable, for example https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mars/Topography/HRSC_MOLA_Blend/Mars_HRSC_MOLA_BlendDEM_Global_200mp if that helps you...
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Well this data is quite difficult to hadle I admit 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.
I wanted to do a high-res bump map for Mars, but it's much easier to skip that step and do a normal map when using the USGS data...
I wanted to do a high-res bump map for Mars, but it's much easier to skip that step and do a normal map when using the USGS data...
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Here is a link to 2 8k blue mars maps
The OLD texture was used by The Discovery Chanel in two shows
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ZYAd08tZL-LXBmVVJ1SERzSFU/view?usp=sharing
the old one
not really done
The OLD texture was used by The Discovery Chanel in two shows
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ZYAd08tZL-LXBmVVJ1SERzSFU/view?usp=sharing
the old one
not really done