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Total Members Voted: 176

[xenoargh]

I love it.  Looks like it was sitting on some planet, disguised as a mountain, and decided to rise up and give battle 

[Gotcha!]

I found this funny tool; maybe someone else would be interested in it too, so why not share?
Planet Creator

Some examples that it created:

I spoilered the rest:

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Unfortunately it lacks options, although you can manually edit the presets file in the program dir.
Fortunately it's completely free!

[Thule]

Wow, cool tool you found there.

Have you fiddled with the palette.ini and presets.ini already?
Maybe we can gather some settings that look cool


EDIT: Oh it this tool could be worth a link or a thread in the modding resource section

[Gotcha!]

Yeah, the presets.ini. Seems to be the only way to remove cities from the preset worlds.

[Silver Silence]

The frozen planet looks awesome and the lava planet looks like it's textures were straight out of Total Annihilation.

And the first one, I'm sure someone can take that for their faction lore. That strange crop circle is maybe a huge technological alien ruin that the faction have reverse engineered to build their ships.

[Gotcha!]

That circle is a lighted city, yeap. I wish I had an image file of just that. Looks much better than the weird dots I put on New Hiigara.

Edit: That program is fun but could be improved a lot. Right now, in order to change a planet by removing, for example, populated areas I am editing the presets.ini file while the program is open. For some reason adding your own preset does not work.

Also, clouds don't show up when exporting your world. Pity.

[Gotcha!]

Since the program doesn't export planet details like craters and clouds I decided to make two ocean planets and a moon myself, using some layers that program uses and Thule's wonderful explanation about how to create poles.


I'll be using this one later on too. It's lovely. <3





And a bonus Arid:

[Silver Silence]

Maybe I'm missing something painfully obvious, but how does one customize a planet? All I can do is randomly spawn the same styles of planet over and over. I wanna do something like an "icy" planet with lava through the middle instead of water. 

[Gotcha!]

You'll have to define a new one in your mod's planets.json first.

[Silver Silence]

No, just in that Planet Creator. I'm not making any mods. I just wanna fiddle and make some wallpapers.

[Gotcha!]

Tssk tssk. You didn't read my posts.
In short, you can't, unless you directly edit the presets file. Dunno why the creator didn't implement that. You'd have to ask him.
Also, back that file up, because you can make that program crash.

[Silver Silence]

I stopped reading somewhere around the part I noticed the planet wide crop circle 

[NITROtbomb]

that arid one looks like it is earth but turned into a mars like surface, you can vaguely see the contents on the image  

[xenoargh]

Love those planets, would love to see even more, since it looks like we're about to be able to make galaxies happen

Anyhow, here's the Hermes.  Art by David, pixel work by me.

[Gotcha!]

@xenoargh: Here's what I collected/created so far: Clicky!
Edit: I tossed a bunch of gas giants in there too.


Also, I like that ship. Very vanilla. How do you people do it.