W.I.P. TBGL Solar System

[matthew]

Recently I came across this site where you can download free textures of all the planets in the Solar System.

I've been busy downloaded the textures, resizing them to 1024 x 512 pixels & converting them to .bmp's.

I've started work putting together a Solar System, at the moment it's just a Work in Progress with a few textured spheres rotating on the screen but I hope to improve it soon.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Matthew,

thanks again, I am happy you are in 3D mood in last time

I've been busy downloaded the textures, resizing them to 1024 x 512 pixels & converting them to .bmp's.

I know it is boring to do the conversions, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel ( once thinBASIC XP only, TBGL will go for GDIPLUS = wider range of texture formats ).

I could not resist to put my dirty hands on your code ... again

As TBGL_Sphere produces 1 repetition for radius 1, I changed all planets to be radiused as "1", and their size adjustment is done using TBGL_Scale. This way the texture UV mapping fits as it should.

One tip> to make Sun look really hot :P, what about using Sun-only glow using render to texture ?


Petr

[matthew]

...One tip> to make Sun look really hot :P, what about using Sun-only glow using render to texture ?..

Good idea, I was thinking of something similar.

The Sun texture wasn't looking that good anyway.

[Petr Schreiber]

The Sun texture wasn't looking that good anyway.

Well, I think it is complicated to take photo of object which melts optics of any camera


Petr

[matthew]

Well, I think it is complicated to take photo of object which melts optics of any camera

lol

[Petr Schreiber]

Little experiment with entities and glow,
not a 3D Mark Vantage yet

Petr

[matthew]

Nice it looks good.

I also found this post that kryton made in 2007 which contains a lot of information regarding the sizes & distances of the planets.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

we will need to choose different size scaling for planets and distance,
else we won't be able to put all in one screen ( as one planet would be visible and others subpixel sized ).

Not speaking of Sun, why it must be so huge ?


Petr

[sandyrepope]

Is the file solar_system.zip available somewhere else? I can't seem to get it to download from here.

Thanks
Sandy

[matthew]

You can get it here Sandy.