Quick animated planets with fractal mapping in gimp






I wanted to share a quick tutorial on how I generated the planets in Gimp for Ellipsoid.
In only a few minutes you can create diverse planets like the ones shown below on gimp, and export them to your project.
After starting a new project, select a canvas size. The larger the canvas, the more detailed your planet will be. However, as the planet will be spinning, there will be a lot of frames generated which can quickly add up in your texture pages.
All of my planets were created using either noise or fractals. To generate either, select the filters -> render option.
Then select either a noise map or a fractal that you want. Once this is generated, choose the "tile seamlessly" option. This will prevent ugly lines from the image not lining up when it is mapped to a sphere.
After that, choose the animation tab, and then the spinning globe
After selecting the number of frames you want, you will have a generated animated planet!
Attached below are some planet I created with this method!
Check out the game if you want: Ellipsoid
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Ellipsoid
Stranded in a spacecraft accident, use gravity slingshots to return to your family in this short physics puzzler!
Status | In development |
Author | Marzar |
Genre | Puzzle, Educational, Simulation |
Tags | 2D, Physics, Pixel Art, Retro, Sci-fi, Short, Singleplayer, Space |
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Awesome tutorial! So easy, and such a cool output!