[PIGMI] procedural planets...

[Andy Hawkins]

Great stuff.  Good luck Simon.

Andy H.
> My friend wrote up his approach with great explanations in a blog 
> series here:
>
> http://acko.net/blog/making-planets
>
> He released his code on github too.
>
>
> Dan.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Simon Wittber <simonwittber at gmail.com 
> <mailto:simonwittber at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think I've worked it out. I need to create a "volumetric" texture,
>     ie a Cubemap. Then use that in a pixel shader. Will post results when
>     done.
>
>
>         :: Simon Wittber
>         :: skype: simonwittber
>         :: phone: +61.4.0135.0685
>         :: jabber/msn: simonwittber at gmail.com
>     <mailto:simonwittber at gmail.com>
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Michael B <michael.sg
>     <http://michael.sg>@gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > I haven't done anything like this before but does the UV map
>     stretch out the
>     > texture evenly across the surface? If so can you see where the
>     textures line
>     > up and modify the texture image?
>     >
>     > Michael
>     >
>     > On 1 February 2011 16:26, Simon Wittber <simonwittber at gmail.com
>     <mailto:simonwittber at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> I have a technical question for the smart people in PIGMI
>     land... I'm
>     >> attempting to create a procedural planet based on Perlin noise. I'm
>     >> using a geosphere mesh, to avoid pinching of the texture at the
>     poles.
>     >>
>     >> The problem is, I can't work out how to texture this thing
>     >> algorithmically. I've UV mapped this into 6 sections, but I'm
>     not sure
>     >> if this is going to work, as I think it will create seams, Has
>     anyone
>     >> done this before and has some relevant advice to offer?
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>     :: Simon Wittber
>     >>     :: skype: simonwittber
>     >>     :: phone: +61.4.0135.0685
>     >>     :: jabber/msn: simonwittber at gmail.com
>     <mailto:simonwittber at gmail.com>
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