Spherical Noise Map Generator

Although it is possible to use lookups to composite spherically mapped noise, this method is discontinuous and produces artifacts that make it useless for anything I'd be using it for.

I thought this was an unsolvable problem until recently, when I stumbled upon a true Spherical Noise Map Generator. The source is libnoise, a portable, open-source, coherent noise-generating library for C++, which I can't help but wonder if FF can leverage, assuming it's built with C++, or the logic can be ported to whatever it is built on.

Granted, there are other 3D noise generators I'd be interested in, too. This just happens to be the one that stumped me the most.

Edit: If there's already a way to do this via Lua scripting, any help or advice doing it would be greatly appreciated. I'm already looking into exploring what I can do with libnoise as it is (old as it is, that may prove problematic), as soon as I can set aside time to set it up and study it.

TTFN

Nice, emme - I was just about to suggest that approach too
Attached is a version with seamless tiling enabled by Override.

spherical_noise_v001 - seamless.ffxml

This seems interesting but I really have no idea on how to use this

The script does not have any input and do not know how to use the noise result

Would be very good to have an example of what can be done with this, I mean how to use it and have a filter that shows it.

thanks

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emme wrote: Most likely this would be used to generate seamless spherical texture maps for 3D applications - terrain maps

Thanks emme for showing what you have done with it and it looks very good and great

Please, how have you applied the Spherical Noise Map to the source image?

Is just blending it or is another different way? Sorry that I do not know about making this kind of things for 3D

Sorry that I did not have tested it myself

Can you please show how you use this filter above you uploaded ?

thanks very much

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SpaceRay wrote: This seems interesting but I really have no idea on how to use this

When I have said that it was interesting is because in the link you can see this and is looks cool

so in the tiles design above, what I really want is that the tiles or bricks keeps always the same width all along all the sphere without changing size

although maybe the above example is bad and not right and maybe a better example would be a golf ball where the holes are always the same size all around the ball

here I have found another one

Thank you for the responses, everyone. It's nice to see others interested in this kind of texturing. Emme and Sphinx, I really appreciate the sample scripts. Having seen animated z-perlin noise in a map script, I was hoping FF would be able to do this. I look forward to exploring ways to make use of 3D noise in world creation. One idea I got from the animated z-perlin noise was the ability to create "family" noise, or simply to use the continuity of noise in the z-axis to sample noise that is picked from key points on that axis. This makes some interesting distortion effects possible.

I plan to play with libnoise a bit, since it can work with other noise types than perlin. Time to blow the dust off long unused c++ skills!

Ah! Now I finally have a good reason to upgrade to FF10!

I took a break from what I was working on to look at emme's Spherical Noise Generator and couldn't open it in FF9. Thankfully, I still have time on the trial updated version I already installed. I'm giving it a look now, and it seems promising. I'll have to brush up on my scripting and work out how to do this as full perlin noise, but I've got an example script to help with that. I do wonder if whorley noises can be used, too. If anyone has a sample script for those, it'd be very helpful.

Playing with this should keep me busy for a while. Fun!

Edit: Yep. I'm going to be busy with this for a while. Before taking this off to a more appropriate forum, I thought I'd correct myself to say I want to make multi-octave perlin noise with this; that's what I meant by "full perlin" noise. Emme suggested it, too, so presumably it can be done. I'm just not far enough along with scripting to see how. I'll pose that question in another thread...