Texture Generator?

[Ptarmigan]

for what it's worth, once you have installed Cygwin and the development tools that come with it, it takes only seconds to build "planet".

Actually, I did contemplate installing Cygwin, but ,,,
I've done LCCwin32, DevC++, DJthingyPP(never can remember its letters! and what a pain that one was!!) TurboC, smallC, etc&etc and I dont think there is any room left in my braincell for yetanother (well not without a braindefrag!), so I thought I'd take the easy route and just run John's wee proggy, argghhh !

Malcolm.

[Dollan]

Wow, I haven't seen that program in ages. It was one of the first things that I ever downloaded from the 'Net!

Sorry to see that the downloading thing didn't work for you, too. I hope that no damage was done to your system...

...John...

Many years ago I had a screensaver on my old 386 which "splattered" (technical term ) the screen with random sized and positioned craters.
I wonder if it can be googled up ? it was by a fellow in Switzerland and he had another excellent freeware "Home Planet". If we can find it it might form the basis for a layer in Gimp or something ,,, I wonder,,,

(edit a few minutes later) Found it here : http://www.fourmilab.ch/craters/
but perhaps not suitable, it would need a lot of messing with your pics of rocks to hide the sharp regular edges of the craters generated by the screensaver.
Oh well, never mind, the site has a lot of very interesting astronomical and other stuff, well worth a look around.
meanwhile I'll go back to doing planetary textures using TheGimp plasma tile tool
(end edit)

Malcolm.

[Ptarmigan]

Sorry to see that the downloading thing didn't work for you, too. I hope that no damage was done to your system...

Fingers xxed, it seems to be OK
I had a go at compiling the planet.c in mingw, it appeared to compile ok but the exe that it produced opened a dosVM then proceeded to rapidly fill the window with random characters acompanied by chattering noises from within the computer but all seems OK still.

,too.

I assume that means the downloaded exe/cygwin thing did not work for you either ?

(edit) PS, lastnight when I was getting frustrated with that cygwin problem I went away and amused myself with making another tileable earthlike texture, with TheGimp, and then added a screensaver crater overlay and some fiddlings, just for fun here -> http://uk.geocities.com/ptarmigana/celestia/
hmmmm, dont think I'd better give up the day job LOL!


Malcolm.

[Ptarmigan]

Sorry to see that the downloading thing didn't work for you, too. I hope that no damage was done to your system...

Fingers xxed, it seems to be OK
I had a go at compiling the planet.c in mingw, it appeared to compile ok but the exe that it produced opened a dosVM then proceeded to rapidly fill the window with random characters acompanied by chattering noises from within the computer but all seems OK still.

,too.

I assume that means the downloaded exe/cygwin thing did not work for you either ?

(edit) PS, lastnight when I was getting frustrated with that cygwin problem I went away and amused myself with making another tileable earthlike texture, with TheGimp, and then added a screensaver crater overlay and some fiddlings, just for fun here -> http://uk.geocities.com/ptarmigana/celestia/
hmmmm, dont think I'd better give up the day job just yet LOL!


Malcolm.

[selden]

Remember that planet is a command-line program.
It has to be invoked from a "command window" and provided with any of a large set of options on the same line.

If you don't include an output filename on its command line, planet writes the image file to "standard output" -- which is the same as the terminal output. This is so it can be used in a "pipe", a standard way used under Unix and Linux for one program to pass its output to another program for further processing.

[Guest]

Remember that planet is a command-line program.

Ahhhh ! ding !!
exit, stage left, mumbling ,,,,looking for the manual and its commandline specs !!

PS All the C stuff I used to write had a "usage" conditional that prompted the idiot user ( who always presses go before rtfm !)
on the desirable traits expected of the op.

mutter mutter

Malcolm.

[Guest]

Remember that planet is a command-line program.

Ahhhh ! ding !!
exit, stage left, mumbling ,,,,looking for the manual and its commandline specs !!

PS All the C stuff I used to write had a "usage" conditional (test on the input string/parameters) that prompted the idiot user ( who always presses go before rtfm !) on the desirable traits expected of the op.

mutter mutter

Malcolm.

[Ptarmigan]

Ummm, well I thought I was loged in !
the above two "guest" posts were mine, the scond being a minor edit of the first.
Sorry for all the noise folks.

Malcolm.

[Ptarmigan]

(re-enters from stage left, in de-mumble mode !)declares "Selden, I love you"
You all will, no doubt, be relieved to know that upon entering a valid command line my compiled exe produced its first baby, err I mean planetary texture

Malcolm.
-> goes back to rtfm mode

[selden]

[John Van Vliet]

first my falt i was thinking of the java fractplanet ,that is what i get for reading 2 threads at a time and looking at 5 small apps and then responding


well i have also included cygwin1.dll with the zip ---this might help

and for the windows users ,like me , install cygwin
it is very easy to install
just point and click , and add some env. variables

[Ptarmigan]

well i have also included cygwin1.dll with the zip ---this might help

Sadly no ! Now I cant even unzip your file. The unziper in WinME reports "unknown compression" and UltimateZip locks up totally (3finger salute needed) whilst trying to unzip it Your previous zip package was ok though !

But not to worry, I have compiled Torben's original planet.c with my Mingw compiler and that has produced a stand-alone exe of just 64k without any dlls.
So I dunno what that cygwin thingy is getting up to !! LOL!

(edit : afterthought)
Selden - did you compile the planet.c ? How big and was it standalone ?

Malcolm.

[selden]

Malcolm,

The exe that I compiled using Cygwin/gcc back in 2002 is 206607 bytes. The copy that I compiled just now is 116815 bytes. Whether or not it requires the Cygwin dll I don't know: I just used the included Makefile. I suspect it does.

[John Van Vliet]

well i am new to compiling so pleas bear with me
i did test it after renaming c:/cygwin/???/ to c:/12345cygwin/???/
and it ran fine with cygwin1.dll in the folder and did not run with it missing

as to unzipping it i use 7-zip
and not the biult in winzip of xp

[Ptarmigan]

as to unzipping it i use 7-zip
and not the biult in winzip of xp

Ah, 7-zip is a new one on me, I'll go look at it ** and have a play.

However,,,, did you also use 7-zip on your previous (first) zip file ? I unziped that one ok, it was just this recent (second) one of yours that I couldnt 'do'

(edit later)** Oh b...er, pardon me, but it is an exe download ! How I do hate that ! zips are perfectly good (or tarballs if you are that way inclined!),, and no install info on the main site, no info on impact on registry etc&etc grrrr, maybe I just didnt find that bit of their site yet ,,, (/edit)

Malcolm,,
who has not yet achieved the exalted heights of XP,
still a lowly WinME user.
One of these days I'll get me another machine and have a play with Linux

[John Van Vliet]

i have been using 7-zip for about 3 years and have had not a single problem
it is a peace of software that i highly recomend
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
or WinTarBall at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wintarball/