Spitsbergen: First Snow is back, Evening Shine...

[PlutonianEmpire]

P.E.

how about /animating/ your Aurora along the lines Runar made his animated sun flares!!?

Would be real fun.

Bye Fridger

Of course... Umm... What program do I use to do that? And I save it as a .gif, right?

Also, my computer's one of the not-so-evolved ones, I tried the 8k earthmap once, completely froze my computer.

So the animation will probably be quite lo-res.

[Tanketai]

I had a go at it

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"aurora1" "Star/Planet"
{
Mesh      "th_placeholder.3ds"
Radius      3000
Emissive   true
Oblateness   0.8
   EllipticalOrbit
      {
      Period      9E10
      SemiMajorAxis   5800      
      Inclination   90      
      MeanAnomaly   90
      }   

Atmosphere {      
   Height      0
   CloudHeight   10
   CloudSpeed   10
   CloudMap   "aurora.png"
      }
RotationPeriod   0.010

}

"aurora2" "Star/Planet"
{
Mesh      "th_placeholder.3ds"
Radius      3000
Emissive   true
Oblateness   0.8
   EllipticalOrbit
      {
      Period      9E10
      SemiMajorAxis   5800      
      Inclination   270      
      MeanAnomaly   90
      }   

Atmosphere {      
   Height      0
   CloudHeight   10
   CloudSpeed   10
   CloudMap   "aurora.png"
      }
RotationPeriod   0.010

}


To apply it you have to tweak the semimajoraxis a little bit, to match you planet's size.

[Jeam Tag]

You mean like placing the Aurora on a cloudmap? I've done that one one of my planets

Nice. We already have a great aurora/clouds texture for Earth by Don Edwards -Since Earth Central is in reconstruction, its different formats are avaible on the Motherlode- Jeam

[PlutonianEmpire]

I had a go at it

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"aurora1" "Star/Planet"
{
Mesh      "th_placeholder.3ds"
Radius      3000
Emissive   true
Oblateness   0.8
   EllipticalOrbit
      {
      Period      9E10
      SemiMajorAxis   5800      
      Inclination   90      
      MeanAnomaly   90
      }   

Atmosphere {      
   Height      0
   CloudHeight   10
   CloudSpeed   10
   CloudMap   "aurora.png"
      }
RotationPeriod   0.010

}

"aurora2" "Star/Planet"
{
Mesh      "th_placeholder.3ds"
Radius      3000
Emissive   true
Oblateness   0.8
   EllipticalOrbit
      {
      Period      9E10
      SemiMajorAxis   5800      
      Inclination   270      
      MeanAnomaly   90
      }   

Atmosphere {      
   Height      0
   CloudHeight   10
   CloudSpeed   10
   CloudMap   "aurora.png"
      }
RotationPeriod   0.010

}


To apply it you have to tweak the semimajoraxis a little bit, to match you planet's size.

Niiiiiiice!

I have an idea of my own..... I'll post a screenshot when I"m finished

[t00fri]

what a beautiful sunny day!



Look at the South pole camera for a change: it's now getting very dark down there..



Bye Fridger

[t00fri]

Another "summer" in Spitsbergen!


Bye Fridger

[t00fri]

Look at this amazing evening light! It won't be long until it's going to be pitch dark again...

Bye Fridger