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Creating Atmosphere for planets.....

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Started by laeuchli November 02, 2001 04:12 PM

2 comments, last by laeuchli 22 years, 5 months ago

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November 02, 2001 04:12 PM

Hey, I''m trying to develop good cloud cover for my planets. This is what I have so far(www.laeuchli.com/jesse/). What I''ve been doing is mapping a transperant cloud texture to a sphere, and drawing the planet inside the sphere. This hasn''t been working to great :-(. Anyone have any better ideas? Jesse www.laeuchli.com/jesse/

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TerranFury

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November 02, 2001 05:48 PM

There was a post about this a while back on Flipcode. The technique used was this: a ring (tristrip) was made around the planet, that would always face the camera (billboard). It was textured with a cloud texture that faded out. That should take the sharp edges off your cloudsphere and make it look good.

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Author

November 03, 2001 08:46 AM

sounds good, but have you got anymore details? Do you know which section of flipcode this was posted on?

TerranFury

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November 03, 2001 09:41 AM

I found the thread: http://www.flipcode.com/cgi-bin/msg.cgi?showThread=00002606&forum=3dtheory&id=-1

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