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bonestructure
09-10-2009, 07:14 PM
I feel the urge to paint a texture map for a planet. I'm just not at all sure how to do it. Are there any tutorials out there, non video please, I'm on dialup. I'm particularly interested in how to make the cloud map. And how to make the oceans uneven, not just a level blue. I have made planet maps before, but this was only by taking like an arial photo, futzing with it and applying spherical distortion. This time I want to paint the map from scratch.
Piflik
09-11-2009, 10:29 AM
Not a tutorial, but a PS Filter called Lunar Cell (http://www.flamingpear.com/lunarcell.html). You can use it to create Planet Textures procedurally. While it is not exactly what you want, you can use the Textures as reference for your hand made ones.
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