POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Lunar terrain : Re: Lunar terrain Server Time
29 Jul 2024 18:26:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Lunar terrain  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 9 Dec 2013 10:08:24
Message: <52a5dce8@news.povray.org>
On 9-12-2013 14:37, David Given wrote:
> This was made using 6GB of lunar topography data from the Lunar
> Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, plus a bespoke tool of my own to
> generate a mesh from it. It also adds a certain amount of procedural
> deformation. This isn't particularly successful; I'm trying to make
> steep slopes more interesting, but the rocky foreshore looks terrible.
> My textures suck, too. Any suggestions for where to find better ones? I
> need various kinds of vegetation and rock from a distance.
>

Nice landscape already. For textures I would strongly suggest to 
experiment with Jaime's from his Project Tierra: 
http://www.ignorancia.org/en/index.php?page=Project_Tierra

Those are some of the best I know about and form the basis of many of my 
landscape scenes.

Thomas


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