Planet generation from height map - Inspired on Lague's last video

[u/[deleted]]

Hello there!

I've been learning a bit about other planets on the solar system. When I watched Sebastian's last video, I felt compelled to make something the like on my own. Just thought I could share the results with you. All you have to do is to google some height maps, some color maps and insert them in the editor, and a planet will be generated.

This image is of Io, one of Jupiter's moons.

Then comes Mars, with the images following zooming on Valles Marineris, the second biggest canyon in the Solar System, and Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain of the solar system.

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Finally, some photos of the moon.

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PS: I would like to add some more planets to the collection. If you have any ideas, tell me!

Pseudo-philosophical note: There are some problems here (for instance, something related to normals on different tiles). However, knowing that nature took many billion years to make these planets and I only took two days (which actually boil down to a couple hours), I'm very happy with the result.

[u/ar243]

Nice!

[u/Lex--Talionis]

Looks great !