Hi anyone know about a planet texture maker ?
A proggie that can make a texture for planets moons etc etc...
Needs to be free im only using it 4 times or so ..

Thnx in advance

Chris

Attached Link: Universe Image Creator

a quite potent proggi to make some good looking space and planet sceneries - it's fast, easy and comfotable to use. I recommend the plug-in version, because then you use can all the advantages software packages such as PS, PSP, CorelDraw etc. provide - else you are pretty much limited to the functions the standalone version gives you and that's mainly just the space&planet creation functions... Although I am not sure if it creates planets texture to export....

As far as I remeber I only found one other proggi, that created Planets manually, but was very limited, and thus not very useful...

In any case there some very good tutorials on the net about making planets(textures) and space sceneries manually

Thnx for the link i'll check it out ..

Chris

Well thats not what im looking for ... "but thanx for the help"
That makes Planet images Round .. 

What im looking for is a program that makes a square texture to put on a 3d Sphere...
You know like the earth maps we see online etc etc  ...

Thats what i need :}

Chris

I found out i already have what i need So i dont need to look any further

I made this render in poser 7 ... map made in PShop

Thnx Hypernautfor the help 

Chris

You could try Celestia.

The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

There is the program and also ad-ons.

See the Screenshot Gallery and Related Sites also.

I have seen it installed and it is a cool program that lets you fly tru space.
You can take screen shots, save etc.

Best of all it is FREE.

Hewee ?
Im always happy to get some help ...

But did you read my message or was i so unclear..
I dont want to explore "universe" i need to make 3d texture for a planet...
So your tip is cool for someone that want to do the exploring thing ..
I want to stay home and texture my planet object

Greetings 
Chris

Your right I missed the making texture.
But if I remember right it did have lots of images in the program or ad-ons that you could use as textures.
I also thing the USA government has all types of maps too.

Then maybe terragen.
Also do a search here in the free stuff on terragen. I see a TeXpert from http://people.freenet.de/Myth_de/TeXpert.html

http://www.terrasource.net/
There is lots of programs and links at the site.

Look here under freeware and maybe your find something..
http://www.bakhter.com/index.html

Hewee ... FRIEND .. i already have what i need 
When you read the message above yours first ..you will read:

Posted Thu, May 3, 2007 6:56 pm

I found out i already have what i need
So i dont need to look any further

But thnks for the help and the reash you do / did for me !!
Chris

Your welcome Chris.