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1 minute ago, Misguided_Kerbal said:

Yay, you're here! GTA Online? Never heard of it.

 

idk

What do you think of my tutorial?

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Hey @Commodoregamer118 what happened to your profile picture?

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tater

Hint: He's a legend around the forum

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[The Duna Maniac, DunaManiac's Duna Adventures]

Year 0 Day 227 DED Log

Jedediah: So, Gene, what have you been working on?

Gene: This: the Duna Exploratory Lander.

Gus: How is this a lander?

Gene: Because of those landing legs at the bottom.'

Gus: Oh, it's really hard to see.

Jebediah: Seems a little bit optomistically placed, even for you Gene.

Gene: Moooving on, it has a scientific array.

Gene: It features a super computer by Del, along with seismic, temperature, atmospheric, and ore scanners.  Gus, it's your turn.

Gus: BEHOLD! THE MIGHTY ROCKET!

Jebediah: APROVED!

Gene: But-

Jebediah: THAT ROCKET IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL I'VE EVER SEEN!

Gene: *Sighs*

Year 0 Day 227 DED Log

Gene: And we have liftoff!

Gene: Bobak! What's with all the exhaust!

Bobak: Sorry, I'll switch the camera feed.

Bobak: Whoops

Bobak: There we go! By the way, is this live coverage.

Gene: Um, yes.

Bobak: Hi everybody! I'm Bobak, has anyone ever heard of me? No... oh, they can't hear me. Never mind.

Gene: Just Do your job Bobak.

Gene: Alright, core stage is out, deploying fairings.

Jebediah: Hey! Who designed the fairing like that?

Gene: I'll call up Gus and ask him. Also, core stage has dropped away sucsessfully.

Gene: Deployment sequence has functioned properly. Now, start the burn.

Bobak: Um gene, the probe is entering the atmsosphere! It's engine wasn't powerful enough to get into orbit!

Gene: What?!

Bobak: Temperature sensors report that it's glowing red hot!

Bobak: Gene! The lander is on fire!

Bobak: I'm now totally burning upwards, the lander is burning!

Bobak: Ok! I've reached orbital velocity, just got to cruise through the atmosphere now...

Gene: WHAT?! You're going to let it cook like a fried snack there?!

Bobak: I've gotten it out all right! The adapter is red hot but we'll be fine, the solar panels, communications and science array wasn't damaged.

Gene: Odd, shouldn't the solar panels and communications devices been destroyed?

Munwise (Random Engineer): See! I told Gus to add reinforced solar panels and communications devices! Take that Jezzor! *Maniacal Laughter*

Gene: Alright, it appears that the-

Jebediah: Wow! So entertaining, thanks Gene for getting it out of there! It's almost as fun as seeing it crash!

Gene: *Sigh* I've plotted a course to Duna, we'll be burning there in 22 minutes.

Gene: I am happy to report that the injection burn has begun, taking us to Duna.

Gene: Staging.

Jebediah: Aw man! It's dark! How can I see anything?! Make it brighter Gene!

Gene: I wish.

Gene: BOBAK!

Bobak: I've plotted a maneuver, it will pass within 150 days.

Gene: Take a cinematic shot while you're at it.

Bobak: Whoops! Wrong way!

All: BOBAK! TAKE ONE CAMERA SHOT RIGHT!

On 8/25/2020 at 9:43 AM, Kerminator1000 said:

Also, great story! Its really funny!

Actually, fun fact, all the mishaps I had were actual errors, not part of the story.

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I've created a tutorial based on my preferred technique for planet texturing, link below

 

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I put together a tutorial for creating textures for planets, not sure if it's any good but in my opinion the results are pretty good.

 

[Planet Textures: A Simple Tutorial using GIMP]

To all new budding planet modders, and perhaps older ones, this is a tutorial on how to create a decent looking texture for a rocky planet.

Requirements: GIMP

GIMP is a free plugin you can download that is my platform of choice for texturing, and it's what I will be using in this tutorial:

Firstly, after you've opened up GIMP, click File > New, and create a new page. The Dimensions are VERY IMPORTANT if you want the texture to work. Use a 2*1 texture, which comes in 1024-512, 2048-1024, and 4096-2048 sizes, you can continue going up if you want, but I would recommend 2048-1024 textures for rocky planets and 4096-2048 for gas giants. In this tutorial, I will be demonstrating a smaller rocky planet.

Next, choose a color to fill the page with after you have created it. This will be your theme color. It can be pretty much anything, but I would recommend staying away from purple/pink colors due to it being unrealistic, but it's your texture!

In this tutorial I'm using a blue theme color, but the method works for a lot of other colors.

Switch the brush to Acrylic 01 and cover most of the texture in variations of the base color. Don't sweat if it's not seamless, we'll worry about that later.

Now, using the smudge tool, blend all the various patches together. If you were to export that into a texture for your planet, it would work, but would probably have a horrible looking seam as you are about to see.

Go to Layer > Transform > Offset and click.

In the X field, put in half the length, or the width of your image, in this case it being 1024.

This is what the texture would look like if you wrapped it around a sphere, note the obvious seam cutting through the image. How do we remedy this?

Using the smudge tool, blend the two sides of the texture together until the seam is no longer visible.

Repeat Layer > Transformation > Offset once more by putting the width of the image in the X field, and you will go right back to where it was before.

Now, go to the Filter's tab, click distorts and click of the Polar Coordinates.

This is what the planet would look like from the north pole. Look at all that polar distortion!

Use the smudge tool once more, and blend the poles to your satisfaction.

Now, click on Polar Coordinates once more, to turn back to it's original format, then use Polar Coordinates once more, but disable (or enable) Map from top. This is now the opposite pole.

Use the smudge tool again to your liking on the top pole to rid the texture of the polar distortions.

Congratulations, you now have a texture!

Now, before you save the image, click on the Filters Tab, go to Map, and open the Map Object tab. Change Map To: to Sphere, disable the wireframe, enable transparent background and enable Updating Live.

If you go to the orientation tab, and change the y axis, you can look at a mini preview of your planet!

Now, you can leave the texture as it is, or you can add surface features, such as craters, canyons, and mountains. Remember to export, not save the image, and make sure to save it as a .png and .dds file (either one works), and place it in the folder of choice.

Other resources that might help creating planets:

The Kopernicus Wiki: A pretty good documentation of the basics of Kopernicus

@OhioBob's Atmosphere Calculator: If you want to create an atmosphere

@Poodmund's Planet Texturing Guide Repository: For more fancy tips and tricks on making planet textures.

In game examples: (From my Mod, Japris Stellar Neighborhood)

Spoiler

Texture (Bold):

In Game:

Texture (Dindin):

In the Game (Dindin):

Texture (Retuo):

In Game (Retuo):

 

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But would he be resistant to the virus? Y'know, him being from another planet and all.

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Just now, Kane Kerman said:

you are duna... that's it.

YOU FORGOT MANIACAL DUNA

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Who knew Duna is actually a Maniac? I don't

 

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B-But w-what a-about me?

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Version 0.1.1

Gameplay Changes:
Added Retuo and Bold.

Bugfixes: 

Crucible's texture has been further refined to get rid of the seams.

As always, if you have any comments, criticims, or bugs, feel free to report them here!

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Okay, I've created a pretty good Biome map below:

It has 7 biomes, including the North and South poles, Lowlands, Midlands, and Highlands, and a few special biomes, such as Bold Basin and Peaks.

Today I've decided to go for this scheme:

Value = 1 for "normal biomes" such as the Lowlands, Midlands, and Highlands.

Value = 1.05 for the poles.

Value = 1.1 for special biomes, such as Bold Basin and the Peaks.

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Alright, presenting Bold!

Beauty shots are below:

Honestly, i'm pretty happy about it's lumpy potato like look.

In other news, I'm planning to release 0.1.1 today, which will add Bold, Retuo, and a few other bugfixes, so stay tuned.

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Every once in a while is fine, but can you not post random dead memes?

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You know this?

This is my rendition:

Also:

Hey @Kane Kerman could you make a poem about notifications?

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I've created a nice texture for Bold, shown below.

Thanks to @Poodmund for the tutorial on how to remove polar pinching and creating seamless textures, it's a lot more efficient than my previous method.