moons in FT 3 ?

JimP

I am trying to figure out how to make moons with obvious craters. Smooth and jagged.

What settings should I use in Fractal Terrains 3 ?

These would be 10 miles to 500 miles across.

Thanks !

Dogtag

I seem to recall a planetary bombardment feature in FT. If my mind isn't playing tricks on me (which is a distinct possibility), maybe that can help?

Edit: Just checked (otherwise it would've kept me up at night). There is a planetary bombardment feature. Try Tools>Actions>Planetary Bombardment. That brings up a nifty little dialog box where you can configure your settings, including crater size min/max! What a cool feature. The help file explains the dialog settings nicely. Not sure if that will take care of everything you need but hopefully it helps.

~Dogtag

JimP

I'll have to work with it for a bit. Somewhere between too many craters and not enough at present.

JimP

Hmm... If I use a low number of craters, 100, I get a blue at the bottom. Sea is set to zero percent.

jslayton

Try setting your low to 100 and high to 60000 instead of -30000 to 30000. The crater function has a small problem of wanting to generate rims at 0 regardless of starting depth. Those huge cones on some of the creaters are most likely due to those portions being far below 0.

JimP

Thanks ! I'll check into it when I can, likely this coming weekend.