New planet images

Nice job indeed.
Tho i don't think that pink planets with double-rainbows... i mean RINGS ! ... are exactly subtle. ;)
Still irritates me when i stumble upon such a planet.
I still don't know how i was able to support Millions of people on an steroid. ,)

@Madinson (creator of the new Image-Set):
How much time went into that effort ?

Regards,
Shrambot

2981 days, 8 hours, 53 minutes ago

jonk

RE: New planet images

The images are nice, but the older ones gave me a better indication of the temperature of the planet: Earthlike for good temperature ones, rocky-dusty-yellowish for too hot ones, and white-blue-icy for too cold ones.

The previous images were especially useful in the dashboard.

But hey, nice job, I take my hat out to you.

Cheers.

2980 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes ago

halion

RE: New planet images

I'd agree we lose the visual clue on planet temp type now.

However the mouseover info that is now available on the main starmap more than offsets this in my opinion and the planet graphic variation keeps the planet screen 'fresh'.

A build on this idea though.... I read we were hoping to create more planet graphics so we had 500 unique ? are we currently assigning the images randomly?

Was there code in the original version that allocated cold. neutral and hot images?

could we assign planet graphic 'types' so we had multiple designs each with 3/4/5 colours to reflect the type of temp? this would solve the problem jonk mentions and would be nice to see things change for the terraformer races...

2980 days, 17 hours, 46 minutes ago

sirius113

RE: New planet images

In VPL it was random. You couldn't see what temp a planet has. And its good the way it was in VPL.
Everyone knows where your homeworld is, if they see one ship, cause its the planet with temp 50 :P

2976 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

I'm began to implement sirius113 idea - everyone should design a planet ;)

This is my first planet rendered with Blender 2.57

Atmosphere and ocean - distorted noise, continents and polar cap drawn by hand. Now thinking how to do rings and moons...

2976 days, 9 hours, 56 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

One more, Voronoi + Musgrave textures:

It's seems that this planet have no natives :)

2976 days, 9 hours, 54 minutes ago

joshua

RE: New planet images

Very nice skiv. I will add them to the collection. We will make a jump to 200 planets when we have that many.

Anyone thinking about doing this should make the images 400px x 400px with a transparent background.

2975 days, 15 hours, 28 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Thank you. But there is a long way to Madinson level...

Next planet:

I's worm and green, full of marshes, may be lizards live here? ;)

2975 days, 4 hours, 33 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

png 400x400

2975 days, 4 hours, 22 minutes ago

joshua

RE: New planet images

These are great. One thing that I would be very interested in is 3D models of the ships. Does anyone have expertise with that?

2974 days, 14 hours, 2 minutes ago

chaos1357

RE: New planet images

Assuming you just want 3d renderings of the current ships, I have a number of public domain models and the software to render them. however, when it comes to creating an original, my skills are quite limited. I do know some people that are much better then I am in that regard and may be willing to contribute. I'll ask around.

2974 days, 13 hours, 3 minutes ago

shrambot

RE: New planet images

@ Joshua:
I have no such experince, but actually there IS a set of Ship-Images available.
It was made by Kenneth Wiseman (Tim Wisemans brother, afaik) for VGA-Planets 4.

They were modeled after the common VGAP3-Ship-Images that came with the original game (tho some of them are completly new, and, like the DeepSpaceScout, not always an upgrade, imho).

They have been adepted for VGA-Planets 3, tho; someone even made a new wpvcr.dll containing that images (the wpvcr.dll contains the tiny images that are use in VGAP3 in the VCR and Shipbuilding-screen).
(Many of my current images i use in my VGAP3 Installation came from there, others from the net)

In VGAP4 there were 3 types of images for each ship:
1x Top-Down-View
1x Side-View
1x Isomeric-Front-View

Here an example for the Meteor Class Blockade Runner:

To give you an idea, just browse the page for the Privateers (ships are on the left):
http://www.vgaplanets.com/v4races/rc105f.htm

Is it that what you are looking for ?
Then you might seek contact with Kenneth Wiseman. ;)
I'm not shure if you want to change all the images, tho, and i'm also not certain if he will make 3D-Models for this project, using your choice .
If you want a rotatable 3D-View, i can't help you, either. ;)

Regards,
Shrambot

2974 days, 8 hours, 55 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Lord of the Rings, cold and shiny, far from the sun. Probably has a lot of minerals.

P.S. It's adapted for black background

2974 days, 4 hours, 51 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

that's a cool one..
if you want to pimp it a bit using ps, to get the vectorial outlines under control, then here's a good tutorial:

drawing planets

the nice thing about this one is that once you have a basic layers set,
you can 'just' exchange the textures and adjust the colours..
and you have a new planet within minutes.

if it's okay i would like to use your rings as template, because i can't draw
rings like this free hand yet..

2974 days, 4 hours, 42 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

^^ also have some new ones - nyphidonia, atlantia 2 and rock
how about an ice planet.. is gonna be hard..

2973 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Interesting link, thin lizzy, thank you.

There is rings in high resolution: http://vgaplanets.nu/_library/2011/6/p3_rings.png (3000x2000, 2Mb)

Use them if you need.

2973 days, 5 hours, 58 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

cool, thanks!

.. wooky world, nervondonia, gorn or so...

2973 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

jessilaurn

RE: New planet images

Re: ship images....

Ah, set the way-back machine for 1995. I scoured the nascent 'net for decent images to replace those in my WinPlan library. Had a real blast with it.

2972 days, 21 hours, 18 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

yeah, you remind me of sth..

there used to be add-on image libraries for the winplan images as well.. taken from sci-fi series. lizards having vogon ships or so.. that's maybe roughly a way to go, if no real 3d's are needed. copyright?

i guess it's anyway a question of the purpose, if 3d or 'only' 3d looking is needed..
implementing real 3d is quite tricky i guess, if you want to avoid plug-ins.

2971 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Moving on...

Moon, night cities, athmosphere scattering...

2971 days, 6 hours, 12 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

top!! seems as if we had similar ideas..
Twin Planet (you hardly see him on black) and Kthistlmup.

Ice Planet

2971 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes ago

jessilaurn

RE: New planet images

Kthistlmup... that always makes me smile. I wonder how many folks remember the short story that name came from?

2971 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Tell us!!

2971 days, 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

jessilaurn

RE: New planet images

It was an old Larry Niven short story entitled "Mistake". It happens to be one of my favourites, because it pays homage within the story to works by Asimov, Clement, Burroughs and Lewis (specifically by naming Trantor, Mesklin, Barsoom and Perelandra).

2969 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Something like Jupiter:

2969 days, 13 hours, 32 minutes ago

sirius113

RE: New planet images

3D models?
I don't know whats with copyright, Paramount is not really friendly with it.
But there are some 3D models.
Not that hard to find them xD
http://www.ultradrive.com/sf_3d_indexes.htm
http://www.battlestargalactica.com/old/cgidownloads/models_001.htm
http://www.trekmeshes.ch/

Hmm, a VCR with these model would be a lot of fun ^^

Another suggestion:
What, if you could laod pics from your own disk (not loading from this page, just load it from a directory which you can activate in your profile)

2966 days, 11 hours, 53 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Hmmm... I see old set of images enabled?

Lightweight transparent rings, small moon, shadows from clouds on the planet "surface"

2964 days, 11 hours, 57 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

I noticed that planet image in the VCR and on the star map are different.

It's will be nice if VCR will show planet image from star map.

2964 days, 11 hours, 30 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

Yeah, and they correspond to their temperature

2963 days, 20 hours, 44 minutes ago

madinson

RE: New planet images

I would like to integrate those planets in the next set. They will get an effect , so that they are more round. Thin Lizzy, please contact me directly: www.vgaplanets.de - I won't post E-mail-Adresses, you find it there....

We are going to sort this planets if they are all ready (I mean 500), then you have cold planets with nearly no athmoshere and very hot planets. But this is Science Fiction, so cold planets don't have to be all white/blue....

2963 days, 9 hours, 20 minutes ago

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2963 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

skiv,
wow - every one better than the one before..

madinson,
the idea with the athmosphere is quite nice, gas stars can be pretty hard though.
i believe that the color(tone) should somehow correspond to the temperature - people are used to this kind of logic.. btw athmosphere.. have you seen the movie 'solaris' (the newer one)? a very beautiful pinkish gas planet there.. and you couldn't tell what temp it has..

will try a weirdo gas nebula thing.. hope it does not turn into kitsch (yes, english)..

2962 days, 15 hours, 6 minutes ago

RE: New planet images

thin lizzy, thank you!

I'm studying...

Yesterday I got the idea: more than half stars in the galaxy are double or multiple stars.

This is planet of Venus type in the system of the blue giant and red dwarf:

2960 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes ago

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