What an utterly fantastic find, Rob! I wish I could rep you ten times for this!
In light of this month's challenge, here is a link with some inspirational photoshop tutorials:
http://www.solarvoyager.com/tutorials.asp
I like the gas giant one...
Modified for gimp, with a bit of embellishment on the BG got me this:
planet.png
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What an utterly fantastic find, Rob! I wish I could rep you ten times for this!
I "stumbled" accross that one myself and thought it quite good.
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Darth_Gimp posted that link earlier this year:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...t=solarvoyager
There are some other good links in that thread as well.
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Anyway - played a bit more with the rings and asteroid tutorials there...
planet3.png
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Wonderful...why couldn't I find this when I was doing my mining colony? Nice find.
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Nice tut link, RobA - have some REP!
I was searching for a Galaxy Generator, on a whim and found this liink. The software is rather interesting, but I don't know what to do with it. If I could do a screen capture, it might be worthwhile, but I'd want to get rid of the text at the top right of the view.
Its a realtime generator with a sprite 3D viewer that moves to where you place the mouse or use the short-cut keys to navigate the system.
The goal was to create a realistic, real-time galaxy with a 1000 billion stars and 4 light years between stars - closer near the core.
It looks very cool, but as I said, I don't know what to do with it... got any suggestions on how to take of advantage of this app?
GP
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Doesn't run on my machine
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Instead of running the application file, run the initbat file instead, it should run, that's how I got it to work on my system.
GP
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