[eliex]

With the current rate, the entire human population would be around 10-15 billion, and would have been spread over a vast number of systems, or reduced by war. IMO, Capella must be highly rich in resources to have

millions of refugees from Capella

Although, from Capella might have been people from both the Terrans and Vasudans.

I guess that only Mars might have only 15/20 large cities spread around the poles where there's water.

[Droid803]

You mean 10-15 billion?

[Molybdenum]

You can't really see our cities from outer space currently. They are too small to notice without significant zoom. I doubt colonies on Mars would be any bigger than the original cities so don't put them on the bitmap. Put some green filters on some spots to make terraformation show.

[Snail]

You can't really see our cities from outer space currently.

At night?

[Mobius]

Planet bitmaps tend to prefer the day over the night, if you know what I mean.

[Snail]

Planet bitmaps tend to prefer the day over the night, if you know what I mean.

Which is a pity since having the dark side of a planet, with lights and stuff, would be really cool.

[Mobius]

I agree. It'd be easier to create, too.

[Molybdenum]

OK.

[Mobius]

Oooh...Italy... *_*

Can someone please turn the second pic into a bitmap? I think I can edit the first one...

[Droid803]

You just have to map the second one to a sphere and render it or something.

[ShadowGorrath]

Then apply an atmosphere glow and clouds.

[Mobius]

And remove the text?

Quite frankly, I don't think I can take care of the first pic. Replacing all black parts with green, transparent ones will result in a stupid effect(cities floating in space, ?)...

[BengalTiger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars

[Droid803]

Yeah, I already made planet bitmaps out of pictures in that article

[Snail]

Yeah, I already made planet bitmaps out of pictures in that article

They're huge. I tried to do them on a skybox but I ****ed up.

I can never do anything right.

[Rodo]

After trying to get the first one into the game several times I got this one, seems fine when it's small pic but well I got a question...



I couldn't make it work when the mediavps were selected as mod.

I made a new mission, placed some planet on the background, then saved the image into DDS 1 and renamed it the same and then placed the file on the data/effects folder but to no avail.
It didnt show on the game untill I selected the no mod option.. so.. was there something i was doing wrong?

sorry to bring this up here, just curious.


EDIT:

I took the second image and turned it into an spere, didnt get the spectacular result I was expecting

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Did you make it a square before you mapped it?

[Rodo]

Did you make it a square before you mapped it?

Im not that expert on this subject so I'll just tell you what I did:

Grabbed the original and concealed the text below.
Used the color curve option to get the black and brown look.
Augmented the contrast
Then I used this "Maps" option and turned the image into a sphere.
Saved it on JPG (cause the DDS image itself was to big, this way I make it a flat image i think)
Opened it again and then saved it to DDS and placed on game.


It's very easy to place the sphere on a transparent background but for some reason freespace seems to crash when trying to open the .dds file.


EDIT:
Got it into a transparent layer, and figured it out to make it work with mediavps ^^


Edit 2:
well I've been working on some moon pic also, here it is, didnt want to make a new post cause I dont want to make a fuss over this wich looks a little crappy also xD

[Droid803]

Hey, that looks pretty awesome.

[Rodo]

Hey, that looks pretty awesome.

^^

got the files right here, if someone needs them, just make the call.

Do any of you happen to have some good Europa shot?... I mean the moon, I would like to try that out.