[Stryke 9]

Naw, Lunarcell never looks bad (and both of you did fair jobs with it), but Lunarcell planets never really look like Earthlike planets, like any planet ever seen, in fact. They look like Lunarcell planets. I think it's partially the fact that neither land nor sea is generally broad enough, and partially that all coasts look really fiddly.

[Darkage]

It's a nice plugin, but it indeed doesn't always look realy earth like. But i think this is the best i can make for now. Still it looks prety good for a LC generated map and cloud map. I actualy made this planet for my own universe i am making atm. Now i am gonna try to learn how to model ships .I got the InsideLightwave7 book that covers all the stuff in lightwave so i should proberly be able to make my first ships in a few months. Eventualy i want to create a small trailer or movie for it. But thats still some time away. By that time i am also able to make better planet maps without using LC like plugins.

[Nico]

want to do something like that?



free p1mp

( and trying how to use a pic as a link while I'm at it )
( yaih! it works )

completly silly trailer ( didn't get to decide what would happen ), but still it features my own ship designs

[Darkage]

this is the working link:D

[Nico]

Originally posted by Darkage
this is the working link:D

ah, yeah, corrected it

[Darkage]

The last part with the missiles, thats prety cool!

[Ryx]

That was cool.

How long to make that?
What tools where used?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Ryx
That was cool.

How long to make that?
What tools where used?

how long? hmm... first version was done in 4 days ( 9->12, 13.30->17.30, that's... 24 hours ), plus a few later modifications at home. Was done in max.

[gevatter Lars]

Rendering, makeing the scene or both toke you 4 days?

[Nico]

Originally posted by gevatter Lars
Rendering, makeing the scene or both toke you 4 days?

both. there was sound in the first version, too ( well, sound... there was a music, can hardly call that "sound" )

[Darkage]

it's better then what i have made so far:D

[Setekh]

It's fantastic, Darkage. I'd add some reflectivity to the ocean, maybe place an additional sun (why not make it a binary? ) in that scene for it to reflect off; then adjust the shading of the planet (especially its clouds) to account for that marvellously orange star.

[Darkage]

I'll try that Setekh;) thanks for your comment:)

[Kazan]

the only thing lunarcell needs to look more realistic is giving it a "tectonic banding" routine - where the mountains and ilsand chains are setup realistically around tectonic boundries - which would aslo affect active/passive continental boundries, etc

[Stryke 9]

Ayuh.

What it really needs is some kinda grouping mechanism option, where you can sorta "paint on" the continents to a general degree, while it does all the little fiddly bits like oceans, islands, and terrain shape.

In other words, less of a fractal generator and more of a terrain generator, I guess.


Me, though, I'm sticking to stacked procedurals. Not only does it look cool to see what 20 procedural functions nested in each other look like in the texture modifier, the results are controllable and quite good.

[Shrike]

Ok, now blow it up!

[Darkage]

Originally posted by Shrike
Ok, now blow it up!

Do i have to?

[Shrike]

[glow=red]YES[/glow]

[Anaz]

I can't wait for the result...

[WMCoolmon]

Lost a planet Master Darkage will...how embarassing, how embarassing.