Planet surface texture substitution for Dirt and Drt1

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Which planet surface texture do you favor?

Poll ended at Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:37 am

planet_surface_007
4
33%
planet_surface_007
4
33%
planet_surface_015
1
8%
planet_surface_015
1
8%
planet_surface_031
0
No votes
planet_surface_031
0
No votes
planet_surface_048
1
8%
planet_surface_048
1
8%
planet_surface_054
0
No votes
planet_surface_054
0
No votes
planet_surface_088
0
No votes
planet_surface_088
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 12

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Planet surface texture substitution for Dirt and Drt1

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Here's the next series of planet texture improvements.
This time I am proposing to substitute two surfaces of the Trantor class planets - surface Dirt.png and Dirt1.png.

Both current maps have a resolution of 512x512 and are ugly at best.
Dirt map is being used on the planets enigma_sector/niven.system/Becuma and sol_sector/celeste.system/Morpheus, whil ethe Dirt1 map is being used for sol_sector/alpha_centauri.system/Weigert; sol_sector/celeste.system/Hercules.
Here are some screens showing the present state:

Morpheus (Dirt) / Hercules (Dirt1):
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The proposed textures were created with POV-Ray using overlapping procedural textures with random turbulence. Though the textures are similar in nature, I have chosen those which show distinct features and have some pleasant personality. All textures come in 2048x1024 flavor. The proposals are:

planet_surface_007 / planet_surface_015:
ImageImage
planet_surface_031 / planet_surface_048:
ImageImage
planet_surface_054 / planet_surface_088:
ImageImage

The following screen shots should give you a feel on how they are performing in the game. Please note that the textures are not aligned with the above renders due to planet rotation, and my appear with a slightly different color depending on the sun color present in the system in which the screen shot was taken,

planet_surface_007 (Becuma) / planet_surface_015 (Becuma):
ImageImage
planet_surface_031 (Becuma) / planet_surface_048 (Becuma):
ImageImage
planet_surface_054 (Hercules) / planet_surface_088 (Morpheus):
ImageImage

Unfortunately my provider does not allow large files, so I cannot post the complete map set for you to try. But you could install POV-Ray, download and run the script that generates the maps. Download here, change camera in the pov file to 6, and run the ini script: http://space3d.no.sapo.pt/vegastrike/20 ... 3_dirt.zip

The poll will close as of 2007-08-11.
Two of the favorites will be chosen. In order to reflect the existing idea, the darkerof the favorite textures will be assigned to Dirt, and the lighter one to Dirt1.
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Post by pyramid »

Based on current voting I just have preliminary committed:
* planet_surface_015 as Dirt
* planet_surface_007 as Dirt1

Please still vote.
Last edited by pyramid on Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by charlieg »

Um... they all look nice. :roll:
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Post by jackS »

@pyramid:

Be sure to synch up with Halleck at some point, because he's in the process of putting in some new planet textures as well.
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For info:
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