Development:Orbital Planet Surfaces

General

This page summarizes concepts and approaches to creating planet surfaces as seen from orbit. Topics of atmospheric entry and close-to-surface planetary topology or atmospheric effects or texturing should be covered in a separate document. Two main topics are covered in this document:

• Development of textured surfaces
• Development of procedural surfaces

References

References apply both to textured and procedural approaches if not stated otherwise.

Forum References

Texture Requirements

Development Tools

• Tools for creating planet textures

Examples, Including, Testing

• Orbital planet surfaces
• Some New Planets
• stand clear. planets coming through

Submission Process

Development Needs and Tasks

• Shady Planet...

Improvement Proposals

• Auto-Enhancing Textures
• Fractal Generation System
• More pretty stuff: atmospheres and planet surfaces

Procedural Surfaces

At the time of writing (June 2006) no known implementation of procedural orbital planet surfaces exists in Vega Strike.

Author

pyramid 15:42, 22 June 2006 (PDT)