Tilt the texture for a planet (to load on a videogame)

[Sigma88]

hi everyone,

It's my first time on this forum so I hope I'm posting this question on the right sub-forum.

If I need to move it just let me know, and thanks to everyone in advance for the help!

Now, this is my problem.

I'm trying to modify the texture of a planet from a videogame called Kerbal Space Program

the texture is this one

and the 3D planet looks like this

what I want to do is modify the texture such as when it's loaded into the game the planet will look tilted 90°

so basically I have to put the current north pole and south pole at the equatorial level (the middle of the image)

I've tried different ways to do it with gimp, but the resulting image has always some distortion.

Do anyone know a way to do this?

thanks again for your help, if you need any more info just let me know.

Licensing:
the Images are from "OuterPlanetsMod" for Kerbal Space Program

[su_liam]

The Photoshop filter Flexify from Flaming Pear can do that pretty easily, but it's not cheap if you don't already have it. Matthew's Map Projection Software, which I've been flogging bloody, can do the same thing from command line, but it's free…
Let that soak in. Free.

[Sigma88]

The Photoshop filter Flexify from Flaming Pear can do that pretty easily, but it's not cheap if you don't already have it. Matthew's Map Projection Software, which I've been flogging bloody, can do the same thing from command line, but it's free…
Let that soak in. Free.

hmmm command line

do I need linux?

[johnvanvliet]

i make planet textures for Celestia and other space programs

what you want to do can be done a few different ways

BUT from the terminal interface

on MS Windows that is the crappy terminal "cmd.exe"

MMPS can do this and it is FREE
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~arcus/mmps/

not sure of Win10 but on Win 7 there is a power shell , a terminal that REALLY WORKS

you can also use GDAL and the gdal_warp" tool ( uses proj4) to remap and place 90 north as 0 long and 90 south as 180 long
( and there is a MS windows version for "cmd.exe" )


you can also use Blender a 3d program -- has a VERY steep learning curve

to wrap a sphere with the texture rotate the sphere 90 degrees
and bake a new texture

[johnvanvliet]

to add
for a -90 degree "pitch" rotation you can use the Hugin perl scripts " Panotools-Script" from Cpan
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
scripts
http://search.cpan.org/~bpostle/Panotools-Script/


run this on the test map

erect2cubic --erect=lines10.tif --face=1024 --ptofile=lines10.pto

seeing as this outputs a CUBE MAP to move the faces rotate image 1 and 3 + 90 deg. clockwise
and rotate 4 180 deg.
then reorder the faces

cubic2erect  5.png 1.png 4.png 3.png 0.png 2.png test

and you get this



a CUBE map is this -- for reference



you can also do this manually from within the hugin GUI

it is just that the time is greator

from 1 minuet to about an hour

[Sigma88]

to add
for a -90 degree "pitch" rotation you can use the Hugin perl scripts " Panotools-Script" from Cpan
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
scripts
http://search.cpan.org/~bpostle/Panotools-Script/


run this on the test map

erect2cubic --erect=lines10.tif --face=1024 --ptofile=lines10.pto

http://2.t.imgbox.com/roaamrvi.jpg

seeing as this outputs a CUBE MAP to move the faces rotate image 1 and 3 + 90 deg. clockwise
and rotate 4 180 deg.
then reorder the faces

cubic2erect  5.png 1.png 4.png 3.png 0.png 2.png test

and you get this
http://6.t.imgbox.com/Kq65ZARR.jpg


a CUBE map is this -- for reference
http://0.t.imgbox.com/WTG2HfHk.jpg


you can also do this manually from within the hugin GUI

it is just that the time is greator

from 1 minuet to about an hour

this seems simple enough, I'll see if I can get it to work on my pc

I'm guessing I should follow this http://wiki.panotools.org/Install_Pa...ipt_on_Windows