Elysian Shadows

I 'm working on a planet renderer for my current project which has been quite a challenge for me but I have managed to produce some results close to what I want to achieve. I'm just wondering if anyone has any good resources on the subject or can give some advice from their own knowledge and experience. I've found some good resources but they're pretty vague on their techniques.

The technique I'm using is mapping a cube to a sphere which makes the vertices a lot more evenly spaced, each face of the cube/sphere is it's own terrain. I've managed to produce a cube thats almost a sphere but it's slightly mis-shapen. I'm currently sort of re-writting it, working on one component at a time.

Thanks to anyone in advance who can be of any help.

Have a look at UVsphere and Icosphere you might get some ideas from that.

I found this in the Blitz code archives, they may be of use to you.
http://blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=2539
http://blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=2695

Some inspiration

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzDKj3hjOE

K-Bal wrote:Some inspiration

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzDKj3hjOE

That's really amazing!

MrDeathNote wrote:

K-Bal wrote:Some inspiration

That's really amazing!

Wow..

For those interested. A game prototype based on the engine:
http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infini ... &Itemid=54

K-Bal wrote:Some inspiration

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzDKj3hjOE

... I think I just shat myself.

K-Bal wrote:Some inspiration

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzDKj3hjOE

Yeah thats really awesome, a "little" more advanced than what I'm aiming for though.

K-Bal wrote:Some inspiration



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzDKj3hjOE

Amazing!

Ok I solved the problem of the sphereified-cube being mis-shapen:

Trimmy wrote:Ok I solved the problem of the sphereified-cube being mis-shapen:

Looks good, got a texture with that?

pritam wrote:

Trimmy wrote:Ok I solved the problem of the sphereified-cube being mis-shapen:

Looks good, got a texture with that?

Yeah thats probably the next step after cleaning up the code a bit.

Looks good man, glad you're getting somewhere with it.