Satellite images

Here it is with clouds turned off.

That's looking pretty darn good already.

jffe

ah, that's kinda cool

Excellent clouds!!!

Thanks!

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you haven't even submitted one filter yet - sjeti

Unfortunately, I can't. See my separate posts regarding the unfortunate circumstance of having a mac as your internet-connected computer... I know it sounds like a mundane problem, but for right now, I'm going to have to wait for the mac version. In the meantime, I'm more than happy to give anything away here on the forums. When I get this one finalized on controls, I'll post it.

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I'm just really curious what method(s) were used to get the little cities in randomish yet pretty appropriate places. - jffe

The location of the little cities is based on a blurred/levels version of the rivers. Thus where the rivers get larger or merge, there are cities. Kind of made sense as most cities start around a water source.

Yes, very deep. I am right now working out how to make the filter decide on where the ocean and land masses are. I want it to be based on the actual geological shifting of land masses and then have a slider for the millennium. With the slider at 100%, it will look identical to earth's continents. Any ideas?

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As in... "oh thats Australia.. and here we have Africa"? .. hard one

Yeah exactly. And at 0% it would look like earth billion of years ago, with mostly water and one large land mass.

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or it could simply be that the variation number 42 makes the perlin render an exact match

That's what I'm hoping...I'm on variation 2,934...still going...

(btw -- spent 7 years in Denmark as a kid)

Maybe a 'night' setting? black with little dots of light in the cities?

It'd be awesome to be able to have a globe in a 3d program with the texture channels set to being light sensitive, and, as the globe turns in the sunlight the day and night would show... Maybe only I would think that's cool. I'm a geek.

Alright, here's a night version.