Quote Originally Posted by Robulous View Post
I agree about FT and plate tectonics - of course not all worlds would necessarily have tectonics, Venus and Mars don't, but then they're not habitable.

Is there any other software that would help model continental plates? I have an FT world model which I have drawn plates onto, but it would be cool if there's a tool I can use to play around with them.
None that I am aware of. There have been a few mentions on here of people trying to build tools that start at modelling them, but none have finished that I know of. I have an Excel sheet of my own that tries to divide a sphere up into random plates. It's not very well tested yet, and has been running for the last 24 hours now, trying to output a 4096x2048 image of a world with 17 plates on it. I had the thought the other day of combining that project with this script and seeing what kind of results I got.