Popular Post Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 18, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2014 NEW! Load and Save are supported!!! Planetoid creates realistic 3D planets, or 2D maps at the touch of a button. There is more however. Much more. You can configure the heavens (well - clouds actually) and the earth. You can move mountains, deforest entire continents and generally indulge your megalomania. Here's a sample of what you can create using the default settings Nice eh? The plugin itself will run under either Paint.NET 3.5.11 or 4.0.x so no one needs to miss out on the fun. To install the plugin, download my Plugin Pack and unzip it. Run the *.exe installer (written by BoltBait). Restart paint.net. You'll find Planetoid under the Effects > Render submenu. I'm not going to explain the UI here, because you'll find a HELP file built right into the last tab in the UI. See? Planetoid is a collaboration between myself and @TechnoRobbo. Honestly - I couldn't have done this without TR's help. Thanks mate. Thanks also to @Red ochre for his suggestions and comments. Technical: Planetoid uses Value Noise (incorrectly named Perlin Noise by many) to create landscapes by layering up a number of 'features' and compositing the results into a single layer. The resultant texture can be revealed as a rectangular (2D) map or wrapped around a sphere, with lighting, to create a very realistic looking planet. Original Value noise routines were stolen from Sepcot's website and were originally published by Hugo Elias. Ken Perlins aptly named Perlin Noise is actually quite different. Texture wrapping, lighting, custom animation, custom controls (and loads more!) by @TechnoRobbo. More planets and maps from Planetoid... Blue/Green Earth type planet Mars Gas Giant Barren Moon 2D Map (without clouds, naturally) Tips: 1. Rendering two different planets to separate layers then using a blend mode (like Color Dodge) can render some interesting textures Mars and Earth combined with color Dodge 2. Hiding all the layers Planetoid uses wraps the source layer around a sphere Planet paint.net 3. Careful use of tip #2 can yield some dramatic results! 3 16 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoRobbo Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) Excellent job and quite an extraordinary result! I may have helped but the sheer intensity of this plugin and attention to detail was all you, my friend. Dwarves! Edited June 18, 2014 by TechnoRobbo 6 Quote Go out there and be amazing. Have Fun, TRSome Pretty Pictures Some Cool Plugins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xod Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) Pffffttttt. Three days? Three WHOLE days?? With this new Planetoid plugin you can create a planet with one mouse click Excellent plugin! Saves us a lot of extra work. Thank you. I think that intro - Genesis - it was not necessary. I like jokes, but I think now was not the case. How about "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain"? (Exodus 20:7) Edit reason: Add my attempt. Edited June 18, 2014 by xod 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Awesome! I'll be downloading this one for sure. Great work EER. Have to agree with xod though. The intro is a nice idea but a bit long winded. I think for creating such a great plugin we can forgive you though! Lol Quote Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 18, 2014 Author Share Posted June 18, 2014 I thought my intro was VERY CLEVER. Parallelling God making the heavens and the earth with a Paint.NET user making a bit mapped planet! Hahaha....Oh Obviously some did not appreciate my sense of humor.... *sigh* 2 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDale Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Amazing plugin. Well done EER & TR on a great colab, the UI is excellent and the plugin works very fast ineed. Top work 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) I thought my intro was VERY CLEVER. Parallelling God making the heavens and the earth with a Paint.NET user making a bit mapped planet! Hahaha....Oh Obviously some did not appreciate my sense of humor.... *sigh* Great sense of humour and I did like the idea but on my Nexus 7's small screen it looked like someone was spamming again! It was not until I scrolled down a bit that I realised it was an outstanding new plugin. Some people could easily have seen the same thing and just clicked away from the thread without knowing what they had missed. Maybe if the link to the plugin was at the beginning of the post instead of the end you could include Genesis as well. Just a thought. ☺ Nice planet DrewDale. Edited June 18, 2014 by Goonfella Quote Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 I thought my intro was VERY CLEVER. Parallelling God making the heavens and the earth with a Paint.NET user making a bit mapped planet! Hahaha....Oh Obviously some did not appreciate my sense of humor.... *sigh* I thought it was funny. 1 Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottoman Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Great plugin both of you. Well created. Here is Planet Ego-Tech. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Excellent! - a 'game changing' quality plugin. Thank you both for allowing me to see the evolution! 1 2 Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) Well here is my first serious attempt with Planetoid. I have called it Genesis because it took less than 3 days! I think this plugin is definitely worth pinning. Edited June 18, 2014 by Goonfella 3 Quote Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 18, 2014 Author Share Posted June 18, 2014 @XOD: Nice image - it looks like the planet is still being formed. All molten and lava. Nice nebulae and halo effect too. @DrewDale: I like that a great deal. @Mottoman: You've got a sense of humor like mine! Thanks for posting that! @Red Ochre: You're welcome. Thanks for helping us out with the development. @Goony: you also have a wicked sense of humor. Three days indeed! Harumph. Very impressed with the spacescape. To all the downloaders - Thanks for trying out this plugin and the nice comments. It's always humbling to have your work received with such enthusiasm. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnysdream Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) Man,I have mixed emotions on this plugin.I went through all that work learning techniques all these months from users mostly on here and a little myself for making planets from scratch.Now,anyone who's fingers aren't broken can make a planet with a click or 2 and that just makes me jealous.Anyway,this is a very very cool plugin.Good work Ego and those who helped him. Edit: I thought the intro was clever as well. Edited June 19, 2014 by johnnysdream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I think this plugin is definitely worth pinning. Agreed. Done. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 @JohnnysDream: Don't give up on the techniques you've learned. They are valuable. Planetoid fills a niche. I fully suspect that Gods advanced users will continue to make their own planets because of the fine control they have over the results. However - if you want to whip up a planet REALLY quick, Planetoid should do the job nicely. And now you have more time to make amazing skies with nebulae, globular clusters and Magellanic clouds to hang these planets in - until I crank out a plugin to do that too @David: Thanks for the pin! Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Ego Eram Reputo, TechnoRobbo, Red ochre I love yours plugins. Thank you, all of you. 3 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowman Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Excellent work guys, I like the options and the UI, something really new and beautiful, My attempt, I was trying the crescent mode light, but looks like is not available: 7 Quote My GalleryMy YouTube Channel "PDN Tutorials" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 A highly interesting plugin, well done EER, TechnoRobbo and Red ochre. Many thanks for this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 19, 2014 Author Share Posted June 19, 2014 Thanks for posting your results Yellowman and Lloyd The posters in this thread are already creating stunning works with Planetoid, especially in combination with other effects. See yellowman's image above for an example. Nice use of a bit of extra lighting! Same can be said of Lloyd's yellow planet - that halo effect is very nice. 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceana Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Great plugin. Thank you for the creation. Pastel Planets 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 Nice work Oceana! Thank you for posting your pastel planets. They look good enough to eat! Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCARRIOR Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Just wanted to say that this plugin is brilliant, i never at all really comment on anything that i think is great but this is some great development. Now i can create planets for my game that i was going to scrap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCARRIOR Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Also your intro was very nicely done, forget the idiots and put it back up there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xod Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 SCARRIOR, if someone has a different opinion does not mean he's an idiot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 All right all, let's not go off-topic here. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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