Author Topic: better planets (Read 11790 times)

Omniscaper · **Reply #80 on:** February 05, 2004, 11:59:49 pm

This is probably the funniest and oddest Earth detonation I'v e seen yet.

Ace · **Reply #81 on:** February 06, 2004, 12:19:37 am

I personally think the version made out of several 2048 textures looked better, despite having the seams.

Omniscaper · **Reply #82 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:39:26 am

I always wished we had one of these.

Still experimenting with transparencies. That station seem to have a different render priority from the ring. It ill not render through the rings if the earth is behind it. Anyway around this? The Hierarchy goes like this with Eath:

Earth
...Core
......Ring Group* *(object grouped with light)
......Cloud Group*
......Cloud2 group*
......Land*

Goober5000 · **Reply #83 on:** February 06, 2004, 04:23:42 am

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Originally posted by Omniscaper
This is probably the funniest and oddest Earth detonation I'v e seen yet.

Mitosis!

TrashMan · **Reply #84 on:** February 06, 2004, 05:41:27 am

Wow...great work guys..Alltough you might want to consider increasing the size of the cloud sphere a little. It gives a nice atmosphere efect when looking at the sides...

Turnsky · **Reply #85 on:** February 06, 2004, 05:45:06 am

needs one thing, tho... an atmosphere glow..

Omniscaper · **Reply #86 on:** February 06, 2004, 06:05:08 am

Sigh.... atmosphere glow. I've been researching that possibility for aawhile now without resolution. The best I can come up with is to fake a glow with a large disc shape behind the sphere, but that would only work if you don't fly around the planet. Large glow points follow their own strange perspective rendering which looks funny when the planet and its glow are dancing around each other. For now, the best way to go is to really layer in those clouds.

Carl · **Reply #87 on:** February 06, 2004, 06:09:42 am

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Originally posted by Omniscaper
This is probably the funniest and oddest Earth detonation I'v e seen yet.

dude! you sploded the earth! now where are we gonna live?

and by that i mean: which one?

Turnsky · **Reply #88 on:** February 06, 2004, 06:41:04 am

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Originally posted by Omniscaper
Sigh.... atmosphere glow. I've been researching that possibility for aawhile now without resolution. The best I can come up with is to fake a glow with a large disc shape behind the sphere, but that would only work if you don't fly around the planet. Large glow points follow their own strange perspective rendering which looks funny when the planet and its glow are dancing around each other. For now, the best way to go is to really layer in those clouds.

hmm.. well, have you always seen a 2-d decal that shows you the same side no matter what direction you're facing?

Woolie Wool · **Reply #89 on:** February 06, 2004, 11:57:50 am

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Originally posted by Omniscaper
Let there be night light. I decided to concede with a single 2048x2048 texture size. Until I fix the seam problem, I'll have to settle. Once I get my debris models finished, I'll release this single texture version.

*snip*

You don't have to go all or nothing. Why not two 2048x2048 textures?

EDIT: Never mind...

Woolie Wool · **Reply #90 on:** February 06, 2004, 11:59:45 am

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Originally posted by Goober5000
Mitosis!

Omniscaper · **Reply #91 on:** February 06, 2004, 12:03:26 pm

Mitosis....wow I still remember my highschool biology class. LOL. its macroscopic cell division.

Has anyone come up with any ideas for an effective planetary glow?

Taristin · **Reply #92 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:03:25 pm

...For the atmosphere glow, would a giant thruster glow in the center of the planet work? Make it just large enough to stick out around the edge?

Because the thruster glow is always facing you.

Only problem is, the night side will glow. Is that bad?

Omniscaper · **Reply #93 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:13:33 pm

Its the same as a glowpoint. Any sprite based texture does not align with a sphere that large. While the game's FOV skews objects that reach the edge of the screen, the sprites do something else. Thats what I meant in the other post when i said they "danced" around each other.

Goober5000 · **Reply #94 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:24:34 pm

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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
...For the atmosphere glow, would a giant thruster glow in the center of the planet work? Make it just large enough to stick out around the edge?

Because the thruster glow is always facing you.

Only problem is, the night side will glow. Is that bad?

So offset the glow just enough so that it isn't visible on the night side. It'll be a bit thicker on the day side, but the atmosphere is thicker around the equator than at the poles anyway.

Flipside · **Reply #95 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:25:47 pm

LOL@Omniscapers' Nvidia Earth Explosion...... So that's how they plan to build Earth 2 and find out what the bloody question is

Unknown Target · **Reply #96 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:57:42 pm

EDIT: Was already suggested

Lightspeed · **Reply #97 on:** February 06, 2004, 01:58:01 pm

@ flip: Thing is, they already found out, and the universe was replaced by something even harder to explain, making even less sense. Welcome to the real world™.

Unknown Target · **Reply #98 on:** February 06, 2004, 02:00:06 pm

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What's that semi-transparant Earth thing aroung the left edge of the right-hand earth?

TopAce · **Reply #99 on:** February 06, 2004, 03:18:57 pm

Damn! It looks weird.

Is it a 256-color image? It looks so.

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