Sky/Space panorama generator

Engines, Libraries and Tools Tools Discussion
#1

Does anyone know a Sky/Space panorama generator ?

I have found this one. It generates quite good panorama image. But when I apply it to a background sphere, the result is poor.

#2

No one likes me !!! :’( :’( :’( :’( :’(

Then I will make you all pay for this >:( I will make my own one !.. hooo wait, I allready done one :stuck_out_tongue:

So my first version of my sky generator, really raw version, the code is a mess (not that mush ::)). But it works as I want.

#3

I’m looking for a space sky generator too. Yours even works right in my MacBook. Are you sharing your source?

#4

Not bad - I’d love to see you do a normal sky version or have an option for that.

#5

I hope so it work under Mac ;). It is java 1.5 “only”.
There is the source. As I said, the code is “a few” dirty.
Basically, I generate all object (stars, planette, gaz) and then I do raycasting for each pixel :

  • Stars are spheres
  • Gaz are done with a 3D perlin noise.
  • Planettes are perpendiculary bitmaps to the view.

For normal sky, I will take a look later. It should not be too mush different from this one. Several suns with bitmap or sphere. Moon with bitmaps. Clouds with a 3D perlin noise (but it need a varation on the final function I think).

By the way, if you have planet bitmap or extra other bitmap (galaxie, black hole,…) that can be add, I will gladly to (there are png file with transparency)

#6

Thanks for the source. Your tool is already very useful.

#7

First tries for the normal sky. It is not simple to get the right parameters and formula. But I have made the code far more cleaner now ;D

#8

Those look pretty real to me :slight_smile:

#9

A little more work on it ;D

I had difficulties to create a sphere with several textures without having big problem betwen part of different textures.

So… why not generating textures from an “.obj” file :wink: ?

  • 8 part sphere added
  • 6 part spherified cube added (far better than sphere)

There is still some glitch betwen textures but it is better than before. :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

This is very neat!

Great work!

#11

wow that’s pretty nice .

I’ll take a look in the source code to see if I can make it a little faster so I can use in my game .

good job

edit :I just added it to my game (with slight modifications) and I am using it now. If you think that’s not okay, just tell me and I’ll remove it.
Thanks anyway for the sourcecode :slight_smile:

#12

For normal sky, I will take a look later. It should not be too mush different from this one. Several suns with bitmap or sphere. Moon with bitmaps. Clouds with a 3D perlin noise (but it need a varation on the final function I think).
By the way, if you have planet bitmap or extra other bitmap (galaxie, black hole,…) that can be add, I will gladly to (there are png file with transparency)

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