Planet maps - rocky

[john Van Vliet]

i have been seeing a bunch of NON Simple Cylindrical maps on the mother load lately
just the other day i took a look at the "new" list a randomly looked at one ( i am not picking on any one it was just rand. and near the top of the list)
an example

north pole


there are at least two programs out that can do a good job of making rand textures
"PlanetMaker" -- not the version i have on the ML , that one is very old
-- this one handles 16 bit unsinged bumpmaps --
http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Planet/
an example the bump was a 16 bit unsigned tiff
{./planet -pq -x -C burrows.col -i -0.04 -s 1.38 -o test.xpm}
the bump was a custom made 16 bit bump *.col file

and a normal map { nmsu 6500 1024 4 0 4 <bump.gray> testnormal.png }


and
fracplanet
http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/share/fracplanet



the color is not all that great .But can be fixed in Gimp
the bump is nice
the normal map is NOT from the fracplanet program . I used the nms tool

[InconspicuousBarrel]

It might just be my compiler (GCC through Code::Blocks) or my OS (Win7 64), but whenever I compile planet.c and run the resulting exe a command prompt window pops up and a second later it starts beeping and flashing seemingly random symbols.

[john Van Vliet]

well there is no gui it is text only

i do not own win7 64 bit so i have not done a windows build

and how are you running it ?
from cmd.exe ?

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planet.exe -pq -x -C burrows.col -i -0.04 -s 1.38 -o test.xpm


-- edit --
on MS Windows you might need to play with the format of the output
? change -x to -P and *.xpm to *.bmp or ppm

also the only way i get a 16 bit gray bump is to import the xmp into Nip2 ( using the imagemagick Q16 ) api

? photoshop ?? might ?

[john Van Vliet]

here is a windows 32 bit MinGW build of Planet.c
http://www.zshare.net/download/7826067340ff15ec/
this works on XP so win7 64 ???? who knows ?
i do not plan on installing QT on windows xp so there will not be a build of the new fracplanet for MS Windows

[selden]

it seems to run OK under w7
whether it produces the right result is currently unknown.

[john Van Vliet]

it seems to run OK under w7
whether it produces the right result is currently unknown.

in the " Manuel.txt"
i added a few examples and put the output in a folder

and the last is a 16 bit topo

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planet -pq -x -C 16bit.col  -s 1.41421  -o test2.ppm
convert -depth 16 test2.ppm test2a.tif


the ppm is in a "nonstandard " format 16bit RGB -- hence the "convert"