Satellite Tests

[morne]

I've been messing around with texturing in Gaea to try and get a somewhat convincing rendering of satellite imagery.





I'm finally happy enough with the results to share my progress so far. I'm struggling with getting large, distinct "forests", and I think the desert and higher elevations need a little more detail---the mountains are too green, and I need to add visible lakes, but I think it looks decent at first glance. I'll hopefully be posting updates more, especially once the heightmap for the next continent is done and I can do some larger-scale renders. Vertical scale is exaggerated quite a bit for effect.

Clouds are taken from here: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images...-marble-clouds