Pictures of various planets

Makandal · Post by **Makandal** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:58 pm

Gentlemen, gentleladies,
I recently visited various planet for a survey on earthquakes in Galaxy 1. By chance I took my digital camera to make some pics of the landscape. I would like to share this with you but I do not get any facilities to post these pics as I have been warped and exiled in the beginning of the 21st century. The Uninet system is very primitive here.
These planets include : Reorte, Ritila, Diso and Arusqudi.

(3D imaging of course, I say that for the 5-9 years old users and the more than 70)

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:46 pm

If you upload the pic (taken in game with SHIFT 8 ) to photobucket or other free pic sharing site and then put the link between and in the post then it will come up here.

EDIT: Aah just saw your location, upload speed could be a problem. But if you convert it to a JPEG that cuts down the size.

Makandal · Post by **Makandal** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:15 pm

OK, let me try this.
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse. ... id=1877956

Makandal · Post by **Makandal** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:23 pm

By the way, their compression algorithm is really bad.
So I posted images of Reorte, Lave, Retila, Ritila, Diso and Arusqudi

Vajo · Post by **Vajo** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:13 pm

Mubaryus · Post by **Mubaryus** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:15 pm

this is ingame

?

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:28 am

One day perhaps, who knows. Oolite has come such a long way since I joined, and it's all down to the dedication of the programme and OXP developers.

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:45 am

If I remember correctly, Escape Velocity Nova uses similar pictures on the introduction screen to each system planet, which helps to give a 'feel' of the geography of each of them.

It could be a nice alternative to the planet picture shown in the infromation screen, but it's a LOT of work for someone to create 8*256 planets, even using Bryce or whatever is your favourite - I know, I've created a number of worlds, and variations on hermit asteroids, just for my own amusement!

Makandal · Post by **Makandal** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:08 am

I do not believe it will be so difficult to create. The planets are created in families, there are the redish, the bluish, the yellowish and the greenish. Then, ocean or no ocean.
A bit of random parameters, and that's all. The question I will ask is where and how can I see the codes used to give a colour to the planet, put ocean and clouds and so on. The rest is just a question of time, maybe 3 man months job if we say 25 planets per day.
The worrisome and boring part will be the rendering time and the naming of the files.

Cmdr. Maegil · Post by **Cmdr. Maegil** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:07 pm

Makandal wrote:
I do not believe it will be so difficult to create. The planets are created in families, there are the redish, the bluish, the yellowish and the greenish. Then, ocean or no ocean.
A bit of random parameters, and that's all.

Anh, you won't get very good fjords that way...

The question I will ask is where and how can I see the codes used to give a colour to the planet, put ocean and clouds and so on. The rest is just a question of time, maybe 3 man months job if we say 25 planets per day.

Planet sculpting is supposed to be an art, and you talk about it as an industrial process! What are you, a Vogon?

The worrisome and boring part will be the rendering time and the naming of the files.

Yeah, I thought so...

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:36 pm

Itneresting new Avatar Maegil, what on earth is it. BTW it's 1 apeice in The Americas Cup now, hotting up nicely.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:09 pm

TGHC wrote:
Itneresting new Avatar Maegil, what on earth is it.

It's a close-up of a katana being drawn, the saya is on the right side and the tsuba, fuchigane and seppa are on the left. The tsuka is in the uttermost left.

<EDIT> Arigatou. (Dammit, I nearly looked good there...)
Kyaputen Hesperus

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:39 pm

Ah thank you Cap'n, so it's not a horizontal lava lamp after all then

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:22 pm

TGHC wrote:
Ah thank you Cap'n, so it's not a horizontal lava lamp after all then

And you think *I'm* on something vaguely illegal....

Captain Hesperus

Makandal · Post by **Makandal** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:26 pm

Planet sculpting is not that difficult. We are not talking about getting a complete planet map but a particular landscape of this planet, giving an idea of it. This can be industrialized. It is a bit like in Space Rangers, when one lands on an inhabited planet.
I can make fjord quite easily, this is a piece of cake. The tough side is the texture of the ground, to get the feeling of stone, grass etc... as well as cities.
By the way, I keep asking, where is the file that gives the parameters for the planets ?