Planet Builder

Planet Builder is a command line script that will generate equirectangular textures from a specified spaceengine texture pack.

Prerequisites

Planet Builder requires a few external python modules. Make sure to install the requirements before running the script.

$> pip install -r .\requirements.txt

You will also need to install the wanted texture pack from Solar System HD or Solar System Ultra

Docs

Running the planet builder script is relatively easy.

-h | help: Shows a list of all avaliable commands.

-s | source: Path to parent folder containing the folders "pos_x", "neg_y"...

-r | resolution: Resolution of the LOD. To check all possibles resolution, navigate into your textures folder and check the first character of your files. (eg. '5_0_0.png', 5). If no resolution is specified then the script will use the highest resolution avaliable.

Examples

See a list of avaliable commands.

$> main.py -h

Example of using the script.

$> main.py -r 5 -s "C:/Users/user/Downloads/Earth-Surface-PBC-128k-1/textures/planets/Earth/Surface-PBC"

Warning: The time it takes for the script to run is entirely dependant on the resolution (16k, 32k...). Times can vary from a couple minutes to a couple hours.

Built With

• Visual Studio Code

Author

• Christopher Hosken - Initial work - Christopher-Hosken

Acknowledgements

c2e converter from py360convert