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Posted by Ace on 12-01-2001 04:39 AM:

The wonder of planets...

Originally The Babel Effect was to feature only new planet backdrop bitmaps. However new high-resolution planet models will be found in some missions, and overall they're seamless with the standard bitmaps except more depth and detail for those special missions (Even Venom was amazed from this little sample)

Note: This is *not* the same type of planet as in The B5 TC, this is an actual sphere as opposed to a flat plane with tiled bitmaps.

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Posted by IceFire on 12-01-2001 05:56 AM:

Looks awesome Ace. I'll assume that smoothing will be on

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Posted by Ace on 12-01-2001 08:32 AM:

No, I like jagged edges and ugly polygons

Kidding aside, the various planets also have a very slight rotation to them, and it very much helps the ringed planet effects...

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Posted by Zeronet on 12-01-2001 01:03 PM:

Seriously good!

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Posted by IceFire on 12-01-2001 08:04 PM:

How does the ringed planet look?

Posted by venom2506 on 12-01-2001 08:43 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by IceFire
How does the ringed planet look?

Yes, I want to know too

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Posted by aldo_14 on 12-01-2001 09:45 PM:

Very nice, but where did you get the texture from?

I've been looking for some.

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Posted by IceFire on 12-01-2001 10:26 PM:

Looks like Lunar Cell to me.

Posted by Shrike on 12-02-2001 12:36 AM:

A 32 kilometer planet? Pretty small.

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Posted by Ace on 12-02-2001 03:04 AM:

The actual model will be resized soon, with smoothing added

This planet is a few simple fill functions with cloud maps done in Lunarcell with shadow effects added for more depth.

More detail will be on the actual planets getting used. Lunarcell though is good for perliminary texture effects, but a lot of touchup/layers are needed before you get a photorealistic planet.

BTW, if anyone knows where to find any high-res Earth maps which can be tweaked with cloud and shadow layers, please send over some links. (I've done some searches to no avail)

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Posted by IceFire on 12-02-2001 04:50 AM:

You could probably pull some satelite generated clouds from Lunar Cell and apply them separately.

How big are the planets going to be. I'm willing to bet they weren't all that huge in StarLancer, but at the right size anything will work.

Posted by Ace on 12-02-2001 05:40 AM:

The final size right now planned should be about to real scale, however the 32km versions are easier to work with and in testing no difference can really be seen between the two. (though it's a fraction of the real size, it doesn't scale much differently when you "fly close" to it, and it can have the sensor info turned off so that players don't realize how small it is)

Currently I am using the realclouds option with shadows added since it gives a very nice effect.

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Posted by AdmiralAbaht on 12-02-2001 07:24 PM:

Is the planet able to be bombarded?

Posted by Ace on 12-02-2001 08:04 PM:

Yup, and debris maps can be used to give the "burning world" look.

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Posted by Shrike on 12-03-2001 12:51 AM:

Or exploded world.

Posted by IceFire on 12-04-2001 07:59 PM:

So, Ace, you going to show us these planets in-game?

Posted by Shrike on 12-04-2001 09:27 PM:

Don't forget to give the planets a real big shockwave when they blow up.

Posted by IceFire on 12-04-2001 09:42 PM:

What, you planning on blowing one up with a Subach?

How about an ML-16

Posted by Ace on 12-05-2001 12:52 AM:

Put enough juice behind an ML-16 and you can do anything

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Posted by Shrike on 12-05-2001 08:06 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by IceFire
What, you planning on blowing one up with a Subach?

How about an ML-16

Nah, I was actually thinking about..... uh...... using the conversion matrix on one.

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