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Opinion on Planets
Been Playing around with photoshop and i decided to make a few planets for the Imagemod.
Left to Right - An Ice Oxygen Huge Planet, An Ice Oxygen Large, A Rock Oxygen Medium, A Rock Methane Huge, A Rock Co2 Huge and a Hydrogen Rock Huge Planet.
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August 15th, 2004, 02:01 PM
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Re: Opinion on Planets
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Re: Opinion on Planets
Yeah, they look nice! You using a plug-in or just "doing it the hard way"?
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August 15th, 2004, 02:16 PM
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Re: Opinion on Planets
I'm Using Lunarcell, a filter that lets you create planets extremely easily.
I could do it the hard way but considering i plan to make a lot of these it's a lot easier to use this filter. I can pretty much make a planet every 3-5 minutes with it.
I personally don't care that i'm using the very easy way, as long as it looks good
EDIT: By the way, I never mentioned but i'm planning on making around 5 Planets for each Type. E.g. Ice Oxygen Huge - 5 New Planets, Ice Oxygen Large - 5 New Planets and so on. It will give Fyron either a big smile for FQM Deluxe or a headache  Also should give modders a lot more options |
August 15th, 2004, 02:45 PM
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Re: Opinion on Planets
Maybe instead of even amounts, you could create amounts to fill the voids in the Image Mod? Currently, there is a wild imbalance in the number of custom planet images of each type... it would be great to bring it back to the stock SE4 balance between planet types and atmospheres...  |
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I'm Using Lunarcell, a filter that lets you create planets extremely easily.
I could do it the hard way but considering i plan to make a lot of these it's a lot easier to use this filter. I can pretty much make a planet every 3-5 minutes with it.
I personally don't care that i'm using the very easy way, as long as it looks good
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Oh, don't worry, I've NEVER been one to do it the "old fashioned way" when there is an easier way to do it.
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Re: Opinion on Planets
Well, personally, Number 3 looks like a CO2 planet, rather than oxy, since its so green.
The planets themselves, are beautiful.
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Maybe instead of even amounts, you could create amounts to fill the voids in the Image Mod? Currently, there is a wild imbalance in the number of custom planet images of each type... it would be great to bring it back to the stock SE4 balance between planet types and atmospheres...
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I had an idea although its way off course...
What if the images were monochrome patterns and the type/atmospheres connected to VGA color ranges? It would allow the same feel but with much more variety. A swirled medium sized planet might be image9. The map could record image9, color 1, color 2, atmosphere, etc, etc. If an image9 is displayed with blues and greens then its oxygen, shades of purple for methane, shades of orange for carbon dioxide, etc etc.
That would allow for alot of planet variance with the same files. Possibly even a sliding quality ties in with sliding colors ranges (perfect green and perfect blue would be optimal oxygen). It could also reflect a "closeness" to another type. Its a rotten oxygen planet but its close to methane and quickly converted (the scale of blue/green to purple)
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Very very nice! The cratering pattern on the far right planet (the Huge Rock Hydrogen) almost looks like that of the moon!
I'm looking forward to seeing more of your great creations.
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Re: Opinion on Planets
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I had an idea although its way off course...
What if the images were monochrome patterns and the type/atmospheres connected to VGA color ranges? It would allow the same feel but with much more variety. A swirled medium sized planet might be image9. The map could record image9, color 1, color 2, atmosphere, etc, etc. If an image9 is displayed with blues and greens then its oxygen, shades of purple for methane, shades of orange for carbon dioxide, etc etc.
That would allow for alot of planet variance with the same files. Possibly even a sliding quality ties in with sliding colors ranges (perfect green and perfect blue would be optimal oxygen). It could also reflect a "closeness" to another type. Its a rotten oxygen planet but its close to methane and quickly converted (the scale of blue/green to purple)
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I dunno... very few planet images look good as a different atmosphere just with different colors... |
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