I’d like to create a planet. I use Vue which has a feature to create planets, but you more or less have to take what they give you, or use a bitmap image. Using their sample, I can create a planet with Earth’s map. Great.
However, when I try to create my own bitmap image, it comes out looking hand drawn. The actual coastlines, mountain ranges, valleys, etc. are much more intricate in real life, and I’d like to come closer to that. I believe WM does a fantastic job of replicating natural intricacies, and I’d like to use that power to create my “world” bitmap image to use in Vue.
Any ideas?
Hi there,
Have you looked into using the Layout Generator functionality in World Machine? It allows you to draw shapes that are used to guide the fractal noise functions to create your world.
At its simplest it’s pretty straightforward:
- Go to the Layout View
- Click “New Layout”
- Start drawing
You’ll probably also want to turn on shape-breakup in the left-side of the layout view options page to distort the simple geometric shapes you will be drawing. You can then take the output of the layout generator and use as-is, or more probably use it as a shape input for a fractal noise function.
Cheers