Poll Part2: Voting gas giant surface textures

Post by **pyramid** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:09 pm

..Continuation of the poll for the next 10 surfaces ...

Several (9) gas giant planet surfaces are due for replacement:
*gas_dwarf.png
*gas_giant.png
*gas_giant2.png
*gas_giant3.png
*gas_giant4.png
*gas_giant5.png
*gas_medium.png
*gas_midget.png
*gas_midget1.png

I am posting here a poll to select new replacement surfaces for gas giants. The winners of the poll will be committed to svn as soon as there can be seen favorites.

Please open the textures preview link in a new window or tab for easier reference when voting:
http://space3d.no.sapo.pt/gallery_gasgi ... part2.html

Those textures were created with POV-Ray using my own procedural routines. Out of the many samples I have selected those with personality and character. I hope you like them.

Please vote for your favorite.

rigelan · Post by **rigelan** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:33 am

Even though you have all gas giants here, I think something that resembles 164 (probably without the strata clouds) would be a great color and pattern as a desertish planet.

How much practice have you put into non-gas giants?

Post by **pyramid** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:16 am

Appreciate your comments. After improving on gas giants textures, I will concentrate on rocky and carribean planets. I've put some efforts into earth-like planet surfaces, but still too little to be acceptable. As you suggested, I might use a bit of code from gas giants for the other types.

Post by **klauss** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:07 pm

Though I voted 15, I must say both 5, 15 & 17 are very promising.
Mostly because I can add cloud shadow patterns to those

Hm... after some thought, I can definitely do a lot with 1 too.

Oh... well... there's no favorite I guess, only shades of gray.

Post by **pyramid** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:52 am

klauss wrote:Oh... well... there's no favorite I guess, only shades of gray.

Yeah, they are all pretty much similar. Logically, using the same algorithm just the randomized portions become different (colors, stripes, turbulences, weather strength). With time, the procedures are being further improved and enhanced. Expect more planet types coming out after August.

Currently this pretty complex "marbles" use up all my processor time. 7-9 h per 2K res map on a Pentium 1.6GHz. Means...I can commit earliest next week.

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:20 pm

I chose those with patterns that don't quite repeat tho. Colors can be changed anyhow.

The banding on some is has tiled (i.e. most of the planets with darker bands which shows the same pattern of gradience on its sides), and it becomes obvious. But really good work, and really ahrd to choose from, besides. Why not all of em?

tho I can't wait to see these actually shadowed and all in klauss's style.

Post by **pyramid** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:40 pm

Oblivion wrote:The banding on some is has tiled

Right, looks like tiled, you can see this specially on 14, is however not really tiled but a repeat frequency I might have overdone. I'll improve this on upcoming surfaces.

Oblivion wrote:Why not all of em?

For now we only need 9 new surfaces. In the future I'd like to create still many more different characters. ...just love creating planets....

Pretty curious too, to see them rendered with the new shady planets engine.

Post by **pyramid** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:46 pm

Here are few ingame shots from the gas giant textures commited to svn:

Oblivion · Post by **Oblivion** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:30 am

...now if someone can figure out how to make rings and moons...

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