How do you texture your planets?

[EricL]

Hi everyone,

As I continue developing my mod Intergalactic, I'm starting to wonder... what's the best method of texturing a planet? Procedural? SpaceEngine? Or simply drawing it from scratch on programs like Gimp? I'm just asking for your opinion on how I should go about doing this. 

[Poodmund]

Many different ways, some like to hand paint/stitch their together, some like to procedurally create terrain maps and others use programs like Space Engine to do it all for them. I created a thread recently with a lot of resources on Planet Texture Mapping:

There is also a Discord server hosted by Gameslinx where members discuss planet making:

Edited September 23, 2017 by Poodmund

[SamBelanger]

You can ask me that I make you textures