Very Cool! I am running into one issue though. For most planet types, exporting to sprite sheet the animation is very smooth (25 frames, 10 height) . For some reason when I create a star spritesheet though, it is not seamless when the animation loops back to the first frame. I thought it could be how I was animating it, but other planet types so far seem good. This is one of the star seeds I tried 3806918141
You can change the amount of pixels with the slider, but the export is always in a 1 to 1 ratio. You could use whatever image editing program to scale the export. Hope that helps.
Hey, glad you like it! Yeah some seeds are bugged, mostly ones ending in 000. I don't really see it as a problem since there are so many others seeds to use. Thanks for the bug report though. With configuration do you mean the planet type & color scheme? Would be nice but I think it's going to clog up the GUI of the generator too much.
Yeah sure, you can make that. I released it under the MIT license so you can do with the code what you want. I'm probably not going to add it to my version though.
Does sound like a cool idea, interested in seeing your mod!
It´s really awesome! any chances of getting a tutorial of how it works/ how it was made? I´m really interested in getting into godot shaders, this kind of wizardry is really awesome, loved it
Hi, I am a student, and i wanted to use this and the space background generator, i will fully credit in the beginning of the game and and at the end of the game and also in the presentation, so can you please allow me to use the planets and space background generated by the your itch.io project please. Thank you so much for putting it on GitHub also.
Since I can't find a way to private message you, I'm just gonna comment on your most recent comment. Sign up for Patreon, I will subscribe to you for about $10 a month. It ain't much, but I am sure other people would too.
Yeah patreon sounds very interesting, I don't really have anything to consistently post though, would have to think about it. Also If you want to message me there are some contact details on my profile page.
Hello. This is absolutely amazing. Is it okay if I embed some of your shader code in my game so that I can generate random planets (and others) at runtime, instead of generating huge sprite sheets? If so, I will make sure to credit you.
on even numbers for circle size there is an extra pixel on the top and left hand side, which is probably a product of the circle generator measuring distance from the top-left of a pixel instead of the center. Although this is likely being generated via a sphere. Great stuff though, really like it!
This is SO awesome. I'm very interested in learning this kind of code. You're using Godot's shader language based on GLSL, yes? Do you have any suggestions for resources and/or projects to start learning that?
Also, any plans for including other kinds of stellar objects with slightly different shapes? Stuff like black holes with smaller or different accretion disks, or different planets and/or gas giants with different rings, or even stuff like neutron stars or white dwarfs with polar jets? I'd offer my full support to develop those, but I'm clueless in shaders.
Hi! Glad you like it! Yeah it's pretty much GLSL with maybe some small differences. For learning that i recommend the book of shaders. Also take a look at this video, it's a bit older but holds up pretty well. If you understand the idea behind shaders it should be pretty easy to convert to godot using this guide.
I do want to add more stuff to the generator at some point. Those are good suggestions, but don't want to riddle it with too many options. I like the polar jet idea, might be coming at some point. And if you make some cool shaders I'll definitely consider adding them!
This is super awesome! Just found a bug in the web build though, when you try to input a seed that is longer than the ones the program creates, it stretches the ui past the limit of the window and you can't use all of it.
Wow this is awesome, I want to thank you for this generator, I'm using it for my astronomy school project. I just wanted to suggest you to add a "moon" option that adds an orbiting object on the planets.
Glad you like it, sounds like a really cool project!
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't really want to add that, doesn't quite fit with the rest of the generator. I'm not sure what program you are using, can you not add an animation of something orbiting in that?
Hi. With "rotation png" do you mean a single image of a rotated planet? In that case you can just change the rotation slider and under export click "png".
If you want a animation of the rotation you can instead choose "spritesheet" and it will automatically generate a spritesheet with the animation for a single entire rotation. You then have to use a game engine or some other tool to splice the sheet and display it as an animation.
Really enjoying your planet/space generators. May I ask if it's possible to support importing colour palettes, such as from the website; https://lospec.com/palette-list
Supporting palettes would help speed up development when by matching colours between the planet and space generator, plus the game engine.
Glad you like it! Importing palettes could be possible, but not sure what that would look like. Would it select some colors from the palette and apply those to the colors for that planet? I don't think that would look good.
I do like the idea, just gonna have to think of how to execute it. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for considering! I'd say, if you were to execute palette import, the .HEX format looks super straight forward, as it's simply colour hex codes separated by a line break. I guess you could set a hard limit of the first dozen colours (or 9 for Space Gen, and 10 for Planet Gen - or perhaps standardise the two?)
Perhaps you could get some inspiration from the coolors.co tool? I'm sure some research around there might help with that! Or even creating some base palettes like a list of 10-20 to randomly pick from.
Ah thanks for the link, it's some good inspiration, unfortunately I don't think they explain how they generated those colors. I do have a decent way of generating colors and that should be implemented fairly soon. Expect an update somewhere in the weekend I think.
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I love the new black holes.
Glad you like em!
Can we use this generator for commercial purposes?
The code is available under MIT license, so yes, you can use it in commercial projects.
Ok, ty!!!
How To Use Spritesheet?
Do you mean how you use it to animate? That depends on what engine/program you use.
This. Is. So. Cool...
I'm making a rather lore heavy space-themed game and I'm using this to build a wiki for the rest of the dev team!
Thank you so much!
That's really cool! Glad you like it.
Very Cool! I am running into one issue though. For most planet types, exporting to sprite sheet the animation is very smooth (25 frames, 10 height) . For some reason when I create a star spritesheet though, it is not seamless when the animation loops back to the first frame. I thought it could be how I was animating it, but other planet types so far seem good. This is one of the star seeds I tried 3806918141
Glad you like it!
You're right, the star was bugged a little. I think it's fixed now, but let me know if it's still broken. Thanks for the bug report!
How do I change The size of the gif or the png?
You can change the amount of pixels with the slider, but the export is always in a 1 to 1 ratio. You could use whatever image editing program to scale the export. Hope that helps.
Thanks a lot for your generator ! It is outstanding ! This tool help a lot in making a game with a friend.
However, I found this seed (350285000), that seems to be bugged.
An interesting addition would be the possibility to save the configuration.
Hey, glad you like it!
Yeah some seeds are bugged, mostly ones ending in 000. I don't really see it as a problem since there are so many others seeds to use. Thanks for the bug report though.
With configuration do you mean the planet type & color scheme? Would be nice but I think it's going to clog up the GUI of the generator too much.
Yo !
Yes, I think I will make a "mod" for your tool. Only, if you agree with my proposal.
This "mod" will add the save button or something like that.
This button can save a file that is loadable.
This file contains all the configuration, including colors, planet type, dither, seed, pixels and rotation.
I want to do this feature because I already made a lot of planets that I lost or exported in wrong proportions. And it frustrates me :)
Yeah sure, you can make that. I released it under the MIT license so you can do with the code what you want. I'm probably not going to add it to my version though.
Does sound like a cool idea, interested in seeing your mod!
Useful and very cool
Glad you enjoy!
Thank you for making this!
It helped me pretty up my jam game's main menu. 👍
https://helperwesley.itch.io/surtr-the-edge-of-ragnarok
Nice, glad it was helpful! Thanks for sharing!
It´s really awesome! any chances of getting a tutorial of how it works/ how it was made? I´m really interested in getting into godot shaders, this kind of wizardry is really awesome, loved it
It's not a full tutorial, but made this reddit post some time ago and that covers most of how it works. Hope that helps.
Thanks a lot! Now I feel a bit like a wizard too, good work
Love it! I'm making a space RPG and it's perfect for it. Thank you!
Cool! glad you like it.
This is perfect for my new project, thank you for the creation. :)
Nice, interested in seeing what you do with it!
I love It! It's super cool, it's amazing!
glad you like it that much!
You are a wild person, this looks unbelievable!
haha, glad you like it!
Thanks! Hope your friends liked it also. I get you on the shaders haha, took me a while before I really understood how to write them. Glad you enjoy!
Hi, I am a student, and i wanted to use this and the space background generator, i will fully credit in the beginning of the game and and at the end of the game and also in the presentation, so can you please allow me to use the planets and space background generated by the your itch.io project please. Thank you so much for putting it on GitHub also.
Hey! Yeah you can use it however you want. Good luck with your game and presentation!
Since I can't find a way to private message you, I'm just gonna comment on your most recent comment. Sign up for Patreon, I will subscribe to you for about $10 a month. It ain't much, but I am sure other people would too.
Yeah patreon sounds very interesting, I don't really have anything to consistently post though, would have to think about it. Also If you want to message me there are some contact details on my profile page.
Is there a way to integrate the code (not the generated spritesheet) to run with Game Maker Studio 2?
I don't think so. GMS2 shaders are written very different from these ones, so you would have to rewrite them all.
Hello. This is absolutely amazing. Is it okay if I embed some of your shader code in my game so that I can generate random planets (and others) at runtime, instead of generating huge sprite sheets? If so, I will make sure to credit you.
Hey, glad you like it! And yes that's okay. Post a link or something if you make something with it, would like to see it!
Okay. Thank you very much.
Deep-Fold is it ok if I use some planets that I generated for my RPG, Supernova, so long as I credit you?
Yes that's fine. Interested in seeing what you can do with it!
on even numbers for circle size there is an extra pixel on the top and left hand side, which is probably a product of the circle generator measuring distance from the top-left of a pixel instead of the center. Although this is likely being generated via a sphere. Great stuff though, really like it!
Yes, good eye! I'll try and fix it sometime soon. Glad you like it!
have a way to integrate this with Game Maker Studio 2 ?
You can export your celestial body as a sprite sheet and then import that into GMS.
This is so cool.
I just used this in a game jam game called Eye of Doooom
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
this is awesome. any chance of a unity port? :D
Lucky for you somebody already did that! Here's a unity port by hmc: https://github.com/hmcGit/UniPixelPlanet
thats so cool!! thanks for showing me
Hi Deep Fold Nice tool i wanted to ask can you add to export it as a GIF it would be awesome if you could do that...
But it remains the coolest thing i have seen in a while
Hey! Yes that's a cool idea, I'll look into it.
Glad you like it!
Hey, took a bit, but gifs should be working now. hope you like it!
OMG it looks so good..... I just tried it bro its awesome thanks so much.... And the best part is it is made in Godot 👍
Thanks! yeah it's really nice that it's all possible in godot without weird workarounds.
This is SO awesome. I'm very interested in learning this kind of code. You're using Godot's shader language based on GLSL, yes? Do you have any suggestions for resources and/or projects to start learning that?
Also, any plans for including other kinds of stellar objects with slightly different shapes? Stuff like black holes with smaller or different accretion disks, or different planets and/or gas giants with different rings, or even stuff like neutron stars or white dwarfs with polar jets? I'd offer my full support to develop those, but I'm clueless in shaders.
Hi! Glad you like it!
Yeah it's pretty much GLSL with maybe some small differences. For learning that i recommend the book of shaders. Also take a look at this video, it's a bit older but holds up pretty well. If you understand the idea behind shaders it should be pretty easy to convert to godot using this guide.
I do want to add more stuff to the generator at some point. Those are good suggestions, but don't want to riddle it with too many options. I like the polar jet idea, might be coming at some point. And if you make some cool shaders I'll definitely consider adding them!
Awesome! Thanks a lot for the links!
On Mac it should be in: "~/Library/Application Support/Godot/PixelPlanets". On Windows it should save in the same folder where the program is located.
You currently can't change where it's exported to,
thx
it looks verrry nice can i put those in my game?
Yes! Use it however you like.
This is super awesome! Just found a bug in the web build though, when you try to input a seed that is longer than the ones the program creates, it stretches the ui past the limit of the window and you can't use all of it.
Glad you like! Thanks for the bug report, I'll post an update somewhere this weekend for a bug fix.
Man this is so cool! is it fine if i use this in my game? ill credit you for sure
Yeah of course, interested in seeing what you can make with it!
So this generator works only with dither, eliminating 75 percent of use cases. It would be amazing if you could do this without the dither .
Well I don't know about 75%, but sure, I'll add an option to remove the dither.
Hey! Should be possible to remove the dither now, hope you enjoy!
omg thank you very much
Wow this is awesome, I want to thank you for this generator, I'm using it for my astronomy school project. I just wanted to suggest you to add a "moon" option that adds an orbiting object on the planets.
Glad you like it, sounds like a really cool project!
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't really want to add that, doesn't quite fit with the rest of the generator. I'm not sure what program you are using, can you not add an animation of something orbiting in that?
Holy smokes this looks awesome!
Hi! My group and I used your planet asset for our game if you wanna check it out :) https://cajunwildcat.itch.io/life-finds-a-way
Hi, thanks for sharing! I tried to run the game but it crashes after I press enter at the opening. Here's an error log if you want to try and fix it.
Ohhh thanks for pointing that out!
Hey Deep - Just wanted to update you on my progress. I took your shader code and mutated it horrifically and made my own thing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/nuf5um/shader_based_planets/
Later in the week I'll be releasing a video and some code.
Honestly the Pixel Planet Generator was a gigantic inspiration. These shaders are going to go into a game I been writing for the last 3 months.
Hey. Those look amazing, thanks for the link! Glad I could inspire you, I think you should be very proud of what you've made.
For some of the listings like the Gas Giant 2 and some other like stars its showing as a square. But coolest project nevertheless
Ah, that pesky bug keeps creeping up on me. Should be fixed for those 2 now, let me know if something is still broken though.
Cool awesome now its working fine but for the Ice world the atmosphere is going out and clipping in that square again
any way to get the rotation png? or do you eport it a bunch of times at different rotations?
im new to this.
Hi. With "rotation png" do you mean a single image of a rotated planet? In that case you can just change the rotation slider and under export click "png".
If you want a animation of the rotation you can instead choose "spritesheet" and it will automatically generate a spritesheet with the animation for a single entire rotation. You then have to use a game engine or some other tool to splice the sheet and display it as an animation.
Hope that helps!
thank you I didn't know what that meant love the generator.
Really enjoying your planet/space generators. May I ask if it's possible to support importing colour palettes, such as from the website; https://lospec.com/palette-list
Supporting palettes would help speed up development when by matching colours between the planet and space generator, plus the game engine.
Glad you like it! Importing palettes could be possible, but not sure what that would look like. Would it select some colors from the palette and apply those to the colors for that planet? I don't think that would look good.
I do like the idea, just gonna have to think of how to execute it. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for considering! I'd say, if you were to execute palette import, the .HEX format looks super straight forward, as it's simply colour hex codes separated by a line break. I guess you could set a hard limit of the first dozen colours (or 9 for Space Gen, and 10 for Planet Gen - or perhaps standardise the two?)
Thanks again, such a cool app.
Oh this is awesome!
A random button for the pallet would be really nice addition :3
so cool though. i'm loving all the generators you've made <3
Thanks! Random palettes would be really cool, just gonna have to figure out how to make them look good.
Glad you like all the generators, I like making em.
Perhaps you could get some inspiration from the coolors.co tool? I'm sure some research around there might help with that! Or even creating some base palettes like a list of 10-20 to randomly pick from.
Ah thanks for the link, it's some good inspiration, unfortunately I don't think they explain how they generated those colors. I do have a decent way of generating colors and that should be implemented fairly soon. Expect an update somewhere in the weekend I think.