General Question Earth Cloud Textures ?

[-Apollo-]

Is there an addon available that is enhancing the earth's cloud textures ?
i really have some great earth textures, but those clouds are kinda nasty..

 

[Stevodoran]

If you are using 2006 you could try this :[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=2782"]OrbiterClouds(aka Nebo)_0.3[/ame]

 

[garyw]

not sure if this works in 2010 but I've used it in 2006 to generate a cloud texture that had a hurriance in it. Looked amazing from orbit -> [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3271"]Tutorial - Generating A Realtime Cloud Texture[/ame]

 

[-Apollo-]

Anything Else ?

 

[Rtyh-12]

Sure:

[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3164"]http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3164[/ame]

[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1911"]http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1911[/ame]

 

[n122vu]

not sure if this works in 2010 but I've used it in 2006 to generate a cloud texture that had a hurriance in it. Looked amazing from orbit -> Tutorial - Generating A Realtime Cloud Texture

I've used this as well. Hurricane Ike, I think, was the one that was in mine.

**EDIT** Yes, it was Hurricane Ike, back in September, 2008. Screenshot attached.

 

[-Apollo-]

@Rtyh-12 Thanks Buddy
@n122vu That addons seems great, but i don't understand those insctructions..it would be great if someone makes a video tutorial..

 

[jarmonik]

The default cloud layer is looking pretty bad when viewed from a low orbit. I have been thinking about building a lvl 15 cloud layer for the Orbiter. The idea of building the cloud layer is pretty simple. There would be one global 4096x2048 cloud map containing 8-bits per pixel. Each pixel would be an index into a texture array of 256 textures where each texture would be 256x256 pixels in size. This should allow to build a lvl 15 cloud layer with 24MB of memory. I am not sure is this ever going to become true but it should be possible. I have been looking for a raw material for the texture array but found nothing.

 

[Rtyh-12]

You're welcome Apollo!

And jarmonik, your idea seems great. Good luck!

 

[-Apollo-]

Wow jarmonik go ahead !!! Can't wait for that