Texturing ellipsoid and procedural planet

OpenGL Development
#1

Hello folks,

I am currently developing my first OpenGL programs and successfully displayed 2D Lissajous, etc. My goal is now developing space flight simulator like Orbiter and Space Engine. I searched for learning books about terrain and virtual globe and found two books called “3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes” and “Real-Time 3D Terrain Engines Using C++ and DirectX 9” so far. I have both in my handy. However, I want to learn similar in OpenGL/Java programming.

Does anyone know any tutorials about how to texture an ellipsoid by using planet bitmap or terrain generation with heightmap data? How about procedural planet tutorials?

Thanks!
Sword7

#2

Hint: Use Google

#3

Thanks. I googled them again and finally found them now. I finally found XNA procedural planet source code that I was looking for many days since I discovered that on YouTube. I now have to port C# code to Java and OpenGL.

#4

The easiest way is to use cube-maps.

#5

http://rel.phatcode.net/junk.php?id=55