[Modelling Tutorial] Creating Custom Planets Guide 1

to use vanilla planets and retexture them is not that easy as they dont really have normal sphere maps
the workload needed to turn a normal spheremap into the tiles which are placed on the vanilla planets so that they fit together is massive

Thx for your answer OPR8R

In this guide posted here the author wrote at the end:

Look out for the other way of creating custom planets which makes use of the sph files (built in collision detection, textures and size definition) and atmosphere effects

any way to get a tut of it?or to learn it? ^^
Seems, that the guide only provides planets without atmosphere/collision <.<

ok thx m8

you should get more time for modding/tutswriting

i know of a few programs that can make the textures required for you.

names plz ^^

You can also import a sphere mesh with a cylindrically wrapped texture. Then you add a sphere sur for collision detection. To add an atmosphere you can use a sph object without the planet but containing the atmosphere settings placed in the center of the sphere mesh.

I was playing around with this very subject for the past week.

Once you have the tools (all available) it’s a breeze to do, and of course each person’s work is going to reflect his/her own creative ability - mine is about 2 on a scale of 1-10.

Here’s the method so far, what is missing is an easy way to add the atmosphere mist. Hope it’s usefui:-
http://forums.seriouszone.com/showthread.php?t=56787

its better to use the atmosphere of an existing vanilla planet

About the atmosphere:

you can try 2
– use an extra CMP 4 the clouds which might end up like that
or
– integrate your atmosphere in your planet CMP like this

yep thats what i meant… custom planet with original atmosphere

yeah

Some sort of shield effect would be pretty fitting IMO.

Well so far I haven’t had the time to break an .sph file - see my avatar!, but it looks very simple in a hex editor.

The download link was dead, may anyone have this tutorial files can share for me?

Thanks for your help.

Anyone has saved this tut?
The Link is dead…