Editing Noise Into Terrain - the Burpwallow Way

[su_liam]

For equirectangular full-planet maps I usually work in 4096x2048 or even 8192x4096 if I have time and really want a good result. I saw a tutorial on scifi-meshes.com that recommended 8192 as a baseline and 16,384 for cloudmaps(!?!). Even at 8192 resolution, each pixel on the equator represents about 3 miles. To get a 30m resolution you would need the equator to be about 1.3 million pixels across(1.3Mx668k, 892billion pixels. Kinda puts things in perspective).

For smaller regional maps, I typically use 2880x2880 as per the HandsomeRob tutorial).

This was a crude little, "knock-it-off-quick," version. I like to make my MacBook cry.

[Ascension]

You know that I'm going to be giving this a try Excellent stuff.