KSC microelevation handpainting is slowly making progress:
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KSC microelevation handpainting is slowly making progress:
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Yes, as long as you have a source of data at this level of resolution (which I don't think exists), or you have enough imagination to make something up yourself (which will take a lifetime for an area the size of Valles Marineris, unless you are much more efficient at this than I am ...)Can/Is this same sort of attention to detail going to be available/done for other locations in the solar system? I'd love to fly down the Valley of the Mariners on Mars with this level of detail....
I wonder if Jedidia ever thought someone would try to build something this big when he made IMS?
Frankly, no. And it pains me a bit to know that you'll never be able to integrate this thing reliably and make it work as intended...
Few shots from the latest edition of D3D9Client. With a proper artwork that might actually look good.
Few shots from the latest edition of D3D9Client. With a proper artwork that might actually look good.
Looks pretty stunning! My one question is this: how were the microtextures sourced? Do they come from actual close-up images of the lunar surface, or are they rescaled images from a larger distance? I'm not sure if obvious "crater features" would be visible at this distance scale. Lunar surface images seem to look more like a rough sand surface with small rocks of a characteristic size distribution strewn over it. I'm not sure that the crater distribution scales all the way down to the surface level.Few shots from the latest edition of D3D9Client. With a proper artwork that might actually look good.
Although I have to admit that the second image does have something like a crater close to the left edge. Nonetheless, at this scale it seems to me that the characteristic feature are rocky elevations rather than cratery indendations. What do you think?
What about trying with the latest D3D9ClientBeta18 forRev 49?
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=527074&postcount=3450