Oolite Bulletins

phkb wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:53 pm

So, is there a "{PlanetName}isJupiter" OXP in the works?

Now that you mentioned that... hmmm...

Moar Jupiter.

A few shots from the beautiful Jupiter oxp...

original + 188shippack


Reddish...

More saturated...

Bit more blueish...




high contrast desaturate...

Jupiter...




... and Cobra over Jupiter.

An old screenshot I just found:

Gas Giant Remix...

A little Ring Moment...

cbr wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:01 pm

And more for scientific purpose...

The equirectangular map from an earlier post converted to a cube map [option cube] via the powerfull planettool



It shows a tinier seam than the povray cubemaps which make me think the povray cubemaps were converted a bit different

Next exercise converting a povay cubemap into a equirectangular map



Shows no obvious seams

Povray cube maps were constructed from 6 rendered frames taken from inside the textured sphere. Frames are then assembled into the tall-strip format to use as a texture. There is no conversion from any other coordinate system.

It is likely that since the povray camera was a perspective camera rather than orthographic, there is some distortion at the seams.

Do you have a screenshot of a Povray planet cube map with seam irregularities - what should I be looking for?

Not sure if it's related. I'm seeing this small seam on Lave with Povray Planets 1.1.

What would you see if you tried landing there?

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:05 pm

What would you see if you tried landing there?

Couldn't find the first one as I returned to Lave with fuel injectors. It may have vanished into the night.
Here's another seam on Lave close-up: