Merry Christmas! (Two new planet texture maps)

[diabloblanco17]

I created another planet map for you guys to use last night, as well as one for a fanfilm.





This one is available for download in the Downloads section of my site. Enjoy!

(The watermark is just there because I like things to be uniform on my site. It isn't present on the one you download.)





You can only view the preview version of this one, but I figured I'd post it anyway.

Again, Merry Christmas! I may have a desert planet texture uploaded later today, or perhaps tomorrow.

[Guest]

Merry Christmas diabloblanco17.... great work on the textures, Stygia looks amazing,

any chance of releasing your moded version of the stars.dat file with blue shade?

I guess we have to wait until after the movie release for that.

good luck with the movie...

cheers..

[DJ_Night]

Merry Christmas diabloblanco17.... great work on the textures, Stygia looks amazing,

any chance of releasing your moded version of the stars.dat file with blue shade?

I guess we have to wait until after the movie release for that.

good luck with the movie...

cheers..

Guest is me... just temporary server problems at "shatters.com...

[ElPelado]

The stars you see in the background are not from celestia, and are not even real: it was created with PhotoShop...

[Darkmiss]

Hoth and Degobah

[maxim]

Very nice textures.

I was just wondering if you create depth information for your planet surfaces (i.e. bumbmap or normalmap). These canyons and valleys might look quite impressive with that.

maxim

[Darryl Roy]

How many North American, Central Asian, and East African lakes can you spot in that second map - I've identified eight at a cursory look...

Beautiful textures. I can only dream of having the same facility with GIMP....

[Kolano]

It looks like you need to apply spherical mapping corrections to these to prevent them pinching at the poles.

[Darryl Roy]

Is there a filter for this, our would you simply do a 'horizontal' weighted
blur, ie a gausian blur in GIMP with no verticle component, going with the
1 SD parameter going from half the circuference at the pole to maybe 1 pixel wide at 75-80 degrees latitude...

[diabloblanco17]

I've got a plugin for Photoshop that applies spherical mapping coordinates to an image, but it tends to wreak havoc upon my texture in the process. A large part of my texture is lost in the process, and afterwards, it becomes nigh impossible to get the ends to fit back together nicely.