New moon map resources from NASA

evilproducer

Hey all, NASA released some highly detailed moon maps, including displacement maps. See the link below:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

Here is a looping GIF that I made as an experiment.

Edit: I'm not sure why it isn't animated. How are they supposed to be uploaded? 
 

WendyLuvsCatz

try DeviantArt

evilproducer

SadKitty_Carrara said:

try DeviantArt

To upload animated gifs?

WendyLuvsCatz

evilproducer said:

SadKitty_Carrara said:

try DeviantArt

To upload animated gifs?

LOL yes

de3an

evilproducer said:

Edit: I'm not sure why it isn't animated. How are they supposed to be uploaded? 

 

This iteration of the Daz forums doesn't support uploading animated gifs. The only animated gif images that reside on the Daz server are the animated avatars that existed before the last forum "upgrade". (You were lucky enough to have one of them. But if you try to change it you'll lose the animation.)

Any other animated gif images that you see here are hosted on various other external servers and then linked to in the forum post. (Such as Wendy's dancing cat-lady, which is hosted on DeviantArt.)

 

Stezza

evilproducer said:

Hey all, NASA released some highly detailed moon maps, including displacement maps. See the link below:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

Here is a looping GIF that I made as an experiment.

Edit: I'm not sure why it isn't animated. How are they supposed to be uploaded? 
 

thanks for the heads up....

have now updated my maps for the moon  

Mistara

de3an said:

evilproducer said:

Edit: I'm not sure why it isn't animated. How are they supposed to be uploaded? 

 

This iteration of the Daz forums doesn't support uploading animated gifs. The only animated gif images that reside on the Daz server are the animated avatars that existed before the last forum "upgrade". (You were lucky enough to have one of them. But if you try to change it you'll lose the animation.)

Any other animated gif images that you see here are hosted on various other external servers and then linked to in the forum post. (Such as Wendy's dancing cat-lady, which is hosted on DeviantArt.)

 

animated gifs dont work on rosty neither.

been meaning to try it from the carrara cafe, iirc they have a forums

NASA images

Mistara

Stezza said:

evilproducer said:

Hey all, NASA released some highly detailed moon maps, including displacement maps. See the link below:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720

Here is a looping GIF that I made as an experiment.

Edit: I'm not sure why it isn't animated. How are they supposed to be uploaded? 
 

thanks for the heads up....

have now updated my maps for the moon  

moon pizza pie, thats amoré

SpottedKitty

Excellent, it's got LRO (Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter) data; it's good to have proper data for the farside and poles. Just one question, which flavour of Displacement map works in D|S? There are two different types supplied.

Catherine3678ab

Thanks for the HU! Downloading now :-)

 

SpottedKitty

Well, that's interesting, although in hindsight maybe not too surprising. I just had time for some test renders, and both displacement maps work. I put them into the Bump slot, since Iray makes a hash of displacement on a low-res sphere mesh. The floating-point one rendered with the bump a bit harsh, needing turned down a bit, and the signed integer one needed the bump value turned up all the way to 50.

Looks nice when I render with a black background and a single Distant light. Maybe I'll haul out those old Apollo models and convert them properly to Iray materials.

de3an

Just now got around to playing with the moon image maps.

Neat.

Mistara

de3an said:

Just now got around to playing with the moon image maps.

Neat.

kewl!!

SpottedKitty

Very nice animations; especially the play of shadows around crater rims and mountains as the terminator (not you, Arnold) zips round and round.

Something extra I'll have to try out, maybe later tonight. Earthshine.