Terraformer II by Sjeiti

This is absolutely bloody amazing.

When I get home, I'm going to make a few planets. I'll post them.

What a clever filter!!! Love it!!

very cool, sjeiti! thank you for those

Coolness.

Had to give it a try right away...

I'm really impressed by this filter (it's the reason I decided to try the demo of Filter Forge).

It does a great job, and, combined with other filters on here in an odd mix, allows me to produce some pretty cool old-style maps.

I do have a few suggestions to consider for future versions (if we're lucky enough to have you continue with the project).

1) A way for mountains to appear throughout the landscape - essentially another way to "age" the planet...younger ones would be rougher, older ones, more smoothed out.

2) Rivers and small lakes....scalable, of course, in some magical way that always makes them look right - especially the width of rivers.

3) I've noticed that many noise generators allow the seed to be modified. An in this change affects a relative change. So a change of 1 might change the planet slightly, while a change of 1000 might change it dramatically. This was nice for being able to simulate the movement from one large continent on the planet to several smaller ones and back as the continents shifted and recombined. This one doesn't seem to work like that - or I'm not seeing the pattern. Changing the most seed-like value allows for repeatability, but subsequent numbers are either so dramatically different (or are) that the planets don't really resemble one another. This would be amazing if this could be added - but I wonder if it would interfere with the other controls you have for roughness, etc (which rock).

These are just some suggestions for additions down the road - not criticisms of what's here - and far better than anything I've found before.

Thank you!

guy

About that gradual change of randomness.. maybe its possible to do/fake something like that if you have two versions of every noise generator going into a blend, where the opacity then is the "morphing" control. The two versions have exactly the same settings/inputs, just different seeds... dunno how it works.. just a thought

It will definitely be a killer performancewise.. but perhaps you could just add it as a feature where you only use 0 or 100% opacity in your presets (I believe that should optimize the sample flow so its not that much more expensive)

But this is fairly similar to how Perlin Noise is normally calculated. So using roughness/details amounts to the same thing more or less.

This is definitely along the lines I was thinking...

You can control that gradual shift, etc.