Textured planets experiment - discussion here

[Leroy Boyce]

I'm often rendered in C4D some Planets for other projects. I have made some planet tiles like this:



after rendering it looks like this



is it planned to get some detailed planets with a small texture map?
Elite 4 become true?

These are magnificient.

Now, if there were a gas-giant with rings, I'll think I'm in heaven...!

[CaptKev]

If only we could persuade Ahruman and another_commander to enable the textured planets *sigh*

[LittleBear]

Think they are comming back for 1.71, but in the meantime you can use the 1.65 alternate build by D.

[Lestradae]

If only we could persuade Ahruman and another_commander to enable the textured planets

I would assume that in 1.71 the function will be possible to enable again. But perhaps we should start a planetary textures appreciation thread in the Suggestions Forum, with the petition to enable it again. I would second this ...



L

P.S.: @Little Bear - we posted at the same instant, obviously

[JensAyton]

Lobbying isn’t likely to have much effect, but you can always start a poll on whether people would prefer 1.71 to be delayed just to implement your pet feature. ;-)

[Lestradae]

Hi Ahruman,

OK, jokes aside.

I think the planetary texture feature is one many people would love to have back on.

I also think that you are doing a great job for the heck of it (can`t be mentioned enough imo) and so I would not in earnest attempt to pressure you to do this or that. Probably couldn`t if I tried, but don`t want to anyways

And I do understand that the textures seem to be a buggy feature and to find it`s causes is not up there on your to-do list.

But. I think nothing speaks against implementing the feature as an alternate option to switch the planetary textures back on, am I right or not?

If there´s something I don`t get here please tell me and I promise I`ll stop mentioning it. I just don`t understand why it can`t be inserted back in as OPTIONAL.

All clear?

Greetings,

L

[CaptKev]

How about the facility to add a planet with a particular radius?

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radius = system.mainPlanet.radius + 1;
system.addPlanet("my_shiny_new_planet", radius);

[JensAyton]

Planet radii can be specified in planetinfo.plist. I don’t intend to add more dynamic ways before the MNSR for reasons of wanting to get a release out some time this century.

[Catsy]

I am wholly sympathetic to those with low-end systems, or who have decent systems but want to keep things lean and smooth, or don't have a lot of hard drive space to throw around.

By the same token, surely those with high-end systems could be allowed to make the choice of whether or not they want to take the hit in overhead? I have two terabytes of hard drive space between my computers, and I'm perfectly willing to give up a couple gigs of HD space to have Oolite dump procedurally-generated planet textures out to a file, so that they can be read with less overhead. And I've got a fast CPU and video card, and am not especially concerned about computationally expensive operations. :)

Like I said, I completely understand the need to design so that Oolite is accessible to low-end systems. But I'm all in favor of allowing folks the option to take the hit and turn on the pretty.

[Wolfwood]

Yup, if a poll is taken, my vote goes to textured planets!

[TGHC]

I am wholly sympathetic to those with low-end systems, or who have decent systems but want to keep things lean and smooth, or don't have a lot of hard drive space to throw around.

It's probably a subconsience inheritance of the original restrictions, the way technology is racing ahead with speed and memory, size should not be a constraint.