Geosphere Creation

Geosphere Creation

Following on from a separate thread... Is it possible to create a Geosphere object in Cheetah3D (I couldn't see it in the menus)?

Maybe there is some way to create it using the tools?

Any help would be appreciated.

Ta

John T

Marraboy said:

Following on from a separate thread... Is it possible to create a Geosphere object in Cheetah3D (I couldn't see it in the menus)?

Maybe there is some way to create it using the tools?

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I think you'd want to use mainly the Displacement modifier with a grayscale image of a geosphere applied to it. Another choice would be a Bump Map. However, after seeing some pictures of geospheres, I notice that the elevation data comes in two color styles, one for underwater and one for above water. You'd need to convert all the elevation data into a single uniform grayscale, which might be more complicated than it seems at first sight. In any case, I'd say there would be some Photoshop work involved too.

Perhaps I used incorrect terms... Sorry...

What I meant is something like this:



Ta

John T

Hi,
that is possible. Please check out the attached file.

Bye,
Martin

Thanks for the quick reply.

It would have took me a fortnight to work that out!

John T

Wow, Martin, that's awesome! I never could figure out what the Stam-Loop subdivision did...

Marraboy said:

Following on from a separate thread... Is it possible to create a Geosphere object in Cheetah3D (I couldn't see it in the menus)?

Maybe there is some way to create it using the tools?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi John,

Maybe some useful nice planet textures maps here

Francois said:

Hi John,

Maybe some useful nice planet textures maps here

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Yeah, thanks. I've taken a look at these for reference.

Ta

John T