Would it be possible to add an option for rotation around the X, Y, and Z axes? I’m hoping to create an animated GIF of a planet rotating from a 45° overhead perspective.
Good idea! I've been wanting to add an option like that at some point. I'll have to test if godot's web performance is okay again so I can bring out some updates
This is a seriously awesome planet generator! However, I have one problem with it: the exported planets spin way too fast!
When exporting as a gif, I have to get to the 1000 frame count to get something that doesn't spin super fast, and even then I wish I could get it spinning slower at a nice framerate. It would be really awesome if we had the ability to export a 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 rotation for more cinematic shots where the planet rotates slowly but not for a full cycle.
All in all though, awesome tool. So fun to mess around with, great job :)
I'm not the creator, but you could export it as a spritesheet instead and then change the animation speed as you see fit if you're using it in a game engine.
that's a good solution, but what I'm really looking for is more frames in the same rotation to get a more cinematic shot. changing the animation speed doesn't really change that as it'd make the animation choppier!
Pretty good suggestion. I just went with the assumption at first that this would only be used as a looping animation, but I guess that doesn't have to be the case. I'll see if I can make that an intuitive setting at some point.
I want to use this to create system maps in my Halo ttrpg game. Do you happen to have/know of a 16:9 simple space backdrop in a similar artstyle? Anything I find online has other planets/stars depicted.
That is perfect. Not sure how I missed that lol. A combo of the two would be the only way this gets better. A space background where you can add stars/planets in columns from left to right to make a system diagram.
Glad to hear that works. I've kinda tried to keep the projects separate so people can just use the parts that work for them individually. Maybe you could try adding the stars/planets to your background in whatever game engine or art program you're using?
Very interested in figuring out how to export shaders as spritesheets/png's, you implemented that in this project flawlessly, seems like you incorporated another github project to do this. Were there any online resources that helped you with this? Poked and prodded at your project a bit and trying to work through a course on shaders, but my brain struggles to wrap my head around how you pulled it off. Amazing work!
That part wasn't super straightforward, but the way it basically works is that the program sets a time value on the shader, then copies the image output of that shader to somewhere else, and then advances the time value every frame until a full rotation is done.
As you noticed I used another project to save all of those separate frames to a gif, and I have a custom implementation for just stacking all those images together in a spritesheet. But I didn't really use any resources to come up with that, it just seemed like the easiest way to do it.
Thank you for allowing us to use your asset generator free of charge. This is a seriously impressive piece of work to me, as I myself have tried working with shaders with quite some difficulty.
Here is the project I completed with the help of your work!
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Would it be possible to add an option for rotation around the X, Y, and Z axes? I’m hoping to create an animated GIF of a planet rotating from a 45° overhead perspective.
this is just an idea but what if you could make the planet explode?
Certainly an idea. Or maybe just put a low res explosion gif over the planet
I have a suggestion; what about the ability to add rings to all types of planets? Such as terrain planets. (or just have them as options)
Good idea! I've been wanting to add an option like that at some point. I'll have to test if godot's web performance is okay again so I can bring out some updates
yk this is rad
thank u
can you add pulsar star plz
What would that look like exactly, just some beams?
Nice generator!
Thank you!
Thank you, I used it along with a pixel space background for my first game. Here is my game.
Very good for a first game, glad the generators came in use. Well done!
Great !!
Nice, glad you like it!
u are a Genius .
thank u
This is really awesome
Thank you, glad you like it!
coolest!
Thanks!
Beautiful creation! From a beautiful mind! Thank you for this!
Thank you! You're very welcome
This is a seriously awesome planet generator! However, I have one problem with it: the exported planets spin way too fast!
When exporting as a gif, I have to get to the 1000 frame count to get something that doesn't spin super fast, and even then I wish I could get it spinning slower at a nice framerate. It would be really awesome if we had the ability to export a 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 rotation for more cinematic shots where the planet rotates slowly but not for a full cycle.
All in all though, awesome tool. So fun to mess around with, great job :)
I'm not the creator, but you could export it as a spritesheet instead and then change the animation speed as you see fit if you're using it in a game engine.
that's a good solution, but what I'm really looking for is more frames in the same rotation to get a more cinematic shot. changing the animation speed doesn't really change that as it'd make the animation choppier!
Pretty good suggestion. I just went with the assumption at first that this would only be used as a looping animation, but I guess that doesn't have to be the case. I'll see if I can make that an intuitive setting at some point.
I want to use this to create system maps in my Halo ttrpg game. Do you happen to have/know of a 16:9 simple space backdrop in a similar artstyle? Anything I find online has other planets/stars depicted.
Try my pixel space background. Might be the style you're looking for, you can disable stars and planets and stuff.
That is perfect. Not sure how I missed that lol. A combo of the two would be the only way this gets better. A space background where you can add stars/planets in columns from left to right to make a system diagram.
Glad to hear that works. I've kinda tried to keep the projects separate so people can just use the parts that work for them individually. Maybe you could try adding the stars/planets to your background in whatever game engine or art program you're using?
Epic stuff 🔥
Thanks!
simply one of the most useful asset in the world
That's big praise, thank you! Glad you like it
I'm exporting but it doesnt export. I tried gif and png.
Are you on the browser version? It should just export do whatever your default download folder is
do you mind if I use this in my (free) game?
Go ahead, it's completely free to use
Thanks!
Just... WOW ! This looks so good !
Thank you! Glad you like it.
Very useful for word building and making games etc.
Thank you!
You're welcome! Hope you can get some good use out of it
Very interested in figuring out how to export shaders as spritesheets/png's, you implemented that in this project flawlessly, seems like you incorporated another github project to do this. Were there any online resources that helped you with this? Poked and prodded at your project a bit and trying to work through a course on shaders, but my brain struggles to wrap my head around how you pulled it off. Amazing work!
That part wasn't super straightforward, but the way it basically works is that the program sets a time value on the shader, then copies the image output of that shader to somewhere else, and then advances the time value every frame until a full rotation is done.
As you noticed I used another project to save all of those separate frames to a gif, and I have a custom implementation for just stacking all those images together in a spritesheet. But I didn't really use any resources to come up with that, it just seemed like the easiest way to do it.
Hope that makes sense!
Thank you for allowing us to use your asset generator free of charge. This is a seriously impressive piece of work to me, as I myself have tried working with shaders with quite some difficulty.
Here is the project I completed with the help of your work!
Awesome, glad it was useful for your game! Cool to see you have a collection of games made already, thanks for sharing.