{"id":11,"date":"2016-07-19T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T07:12:37","slug":"spherical-planets-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/spherical-planets-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Spherical Planets: Tutorials, Articles and Other Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people ask me for information about generation of spherical planets and related stuff, so\u00a0I decided to make a small collection of links to resources that I myself found useful. (I will\u00a0update this list\u00a0if I find something else that&#8217;s interesting and\/or useful enough.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spherical mesh generation:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theappguruz.com\/blog\/simple-cube-mesh-generation-unity3d\">Simple Cube Mesh Generation in Unity3D<\/a> \u2014 a very basic example for beginners<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andreaskahler.com\/2009\/06\/creating-icosphere-mesh-in-code.html\">Creating an icosphere mesh in code<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a simple example<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/catlikecoding.com\/unity\/tutorials\/cube-sphere\/\">Cube Sphere<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a very detailed example of spherical mesh generation from a cube in Unity, including math formulas behind all calculations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.binpress.com\/tutorial\/creating-an-octahedron-sphere\/162\">Creating an Octahedron Sphere in Unity<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 another detailed example, includes\u00a0texturing and generating tangents for normal mapping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Procedural generation of terrains:\n<ul>\n<li>Libnoise <a href=\"http:\/\/libnoise.sourceforge.net\/tutorials\/index.html\">tutorials<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/libnoise.sourceforge.net\/examples\/complexplanet\/index.html\">complex planetary surface example<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-cs-students.stanford.edu\/~amitp\/game-programming\/polygon-map-generation\/\">Polygonal Map Generation for Games<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Amit Patel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/acko.net\/blog\/making-worlds-introduction\/\">Making Worlds<\/a> \u2014 series of articles by Steven Wittens about creating spherical worlds; discusses topics such as level of detail, heightmap textures and normal mapping<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewwillmott.com\/s2007\">Creating Spherical Worlds<\/a> \u2014 presentation about procedural generation of spherical planets in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spore_(2008_video_game)\">Spore<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people ask me for information about generation of spherical planets and related stuff, so\u00a0I decided to make a small collection of links to resources that I myself found useful. (I will\u00a0update this list\u00a0if I find something else that&#8217;s interesting and\/or useful enough.) Spherical mesh generation: Simple Cube Mesh Generation in Unity3D \u2014 a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icospheric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}