Opinion on Planets

[Raging Deadstar]

Thanks everyone, i'm glad people like them.

Imperator Fyron said:
Maybe instead of even amounts, you could create amounts to fill the voids in the Image Mod? Currently, there is a wild imbalance in the number of custom planet images of each type... it would be great to bring it back to the stock SE4 balance between planet types and atmospheres...

If you can send me a list of planets and types i need to create i'll be willing to do this You have my Contact Details or just send me A PM.

David E. Gervais said:
FYI, I purchased the 'Space Bundle' from Flamingpear.com at xmas. It has been what I use for the backgrounds of my artwork and renderings. Did you know that when you make your planets there is an option to save all psp layers. This function basically combines all the layers and makes a texture map perfect for use in Starfury or Se5. (the texture mapped onto the planet spheres in the game.)

I Didn't know this David, thats extremely helpful I've been saving the exact settings for each planet i made for backup so i'll try this later. To quote you "Cheers"

Baron Munchausen said:
Beautiful images! Now, can you make a series of them showing slightly different views of the whole planet in a 'strip' like the shields animation so we can have rotation?

Thats a tough one, I doubt it as it renders basically a 2d image (although I'll try and use davids tactic above, maybe use starfury to render it and try and capture it as an animation ) But as David said, if the export thing works i'll be here when SE5 is released and i'll be adding to the Imagemod for that

Suicide Junkie said:
Well, personally, Number 3 looks like a CO2 planet, rather than oxy, since its so green.

The planets themselves, are beautiful.

Well i'm not the final judgement in which they represent Once i've got enough done and all the mini portraits you can use them for whatever you want

[Ed Kolis]

Hmmm... a while back I wrote a program to generate planets as Povray scene files, would anyone like me to dig that out again and modify it to generate animations, since Povray can do animations as well? The planets look rather cartoony but I'm sure they could be improved

[Fyron]

Raging Deadstar said:

If you can send me a list of planets and types i need to create i'll be willing to do this You have my Contact Details or just send me A PM.

Well, according to the handy new feature of SJ's Map Analyzer program, the balance of entries in the SectType.txt file of FQM Deluxe is thus:



So, images need to be made to make these balanced. At the very least, enough to get the same number for each size of planet for each type and atmosphere...

[Atrocities]

COOL SJ thingy.

[Raging Deadstar]

Ok, after much time neglecting this I finally got to work and did the huge planets. There are now 6 Rock Huge Planets for each type (CO2 Already had 6). I'll start working on the Gas Planets now, As i need to set photoshop up to blur the layers to make them look like gas giants.



They are a Bit grainy as i think i said months ago, Thats from the Gif Format I'm using to save time for you. They look much nicer in Bitmaps

[Baron Munchausen]

Ok, so when will you post a complete set of 'upgraded' planets as a mod?

[Slynky]

Lot of trouble making planets for all sizes and all atmospheres! I think these look really good!

Great job!

[Aiken]

A couple of ringed planets would be cool too (hint, hint )

[Raging Deadstar]

First It will be to get All Atmospheres of all types and sizes done. Then I'll start doing the special ones like Ringed, Mechanical and such. There should be equal number of planets then.