Earth - Tryout

[Rob Archer]

Also id suggest that having moving clouds on a separate layer is a waste of resources for a simple effect. It would look cool but I would just have the clouds one one layer on the texture with the earth diffuse and just have that rotating slowly.

Moving clouds needs to be done in the actual system file and is about 4 lines of code:

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vVelocity = App.TGPoint3_GetModelUp()
vVelocity.Scale(0.0005)
pPlanet.SetAngularVelocity(vVelocity, App.PhysicsObjectClass.DIRECTION_WORLD_SPACE)


It is very important to note that you MUST Disable Collisions between the planet, Glow sphere, and Cloud Sphere otherwise they will all collide and you will have a real mess.

[uk_resistant]

ah i see.

i still think in the interest of resources though that maybe you should just have the planet as it is, with out extra layers.

or perhaps a cut down version? thats a better idea...

does look good though.

[cordanilus]

there's going to be 3 versions.  med and small in one package.  1024x512 and 512x256 although i may just cut the smallest one out completely since the bigger one runs on a 32mb vid card.

the next package is 2048x1024 and the largest is 4096x2048.

i still think in the interest of resources though that maybe you should just have the planet as it is, with out extra layers.

or perhaps a cut down version? thats a better idea...

I could do that, but it won't look as good ingame.

[serverandenforcer]

Hey cord, I did these renders about a month ago.  I would have posted them here, but my internet was down... for about a month... so I forgot to post them up.  I used only 3 layers for the atmosphere.  As you can see, when you get closer to the planet, it is obvious that more layers in between are needed to get a decent fade efect.  However, the result is still kind of cool.  The water color is completely black, however, the color of the atmosphere makes it blue.  So it ends up being the same color of the sky (which is kind of true to the real deal).  The first layer has the cloud textures too.  The other two layers are for the atmospheric fuz that you would get.  If I could, I would get them a smudge closer, and maybe with about 6 more layers in between to get a better opacity fade from blue to black.

[Commander_One]

Looks stunning to say the least...Excellent work  cordanilus!! :spartasanta:

[cordanilus]

Holy smokes, it's been a while with this one.

I've been toying around with the NIF - NiAlphaProperty and I've reached an amazing situation.  I've discovered that this change allows the clouds to show better then previously.  You'll have to look at the older pictures to see what it looked like before.  Below is the newest screenshot of the Earth I'm working on.

[DJ Curtis]

That's gorgeous man.  Awesome.

[Bren]

2 years later...

[Bones]

Holy smokes, it's been a while with this one.

I've been toying around with the NIF - NiAlphaProperty and I've reached an amazing situation.  I've discovered that this change allows the clouds to show better then previously.  You'll have to look at the older pictures to see what it looked like before.  Below is the newest screenshot of the Earth I'm working on.

Well look at this someones tryin to steal MotM title   hey Cord ! glad you got back with this one ;)
cookie btw. she's gorgeous

[Lionus]

I think I can see my home there!  :eek

Firing cookiepedos.

[CptBenSisko]

I think I can see my home there!  :eek

Firing cookiepedos.

you live in the ocean?? LOL j/p

[cordanilus]

I have added 4 Drydocks, 1 Starbase (standard) and 3 fed ships (standard).  I'll upload another pic later.  For now, just a few more things to adjust...then update all the testers.

[Lionus]

I think I can see my home there!  :eek

Firing cookiepedos.

you live in the ocean?? LOL j/p

nah, around 1 or 2 o'clock in that pic.. that'd be Finland.

[eclipse74569]

Yum!  All I have to say

[Aramus]

that looks amazing. good job

[cordanilus]

Sweet, I just figured out a way to add my earth set to the warp list, without out having to write it in LoadNanoFX.py.  Now, once you load up QB...my system is already there.  Even before you make a custom game.

[MarkyD]

Nicely done Cord mate.