Since the primary intent of your use is to create artwork using the planet texture maps as a resource in your artwork, this is an acceptable use under my copyright terms. You are an artist who is producting a poster for sale on the internet and you wish to use one of my planet texture maps as source material in your artwork. Since the primary intent of your use is to create real time renderings utilizing the planet texture maps as a resource in your software product, this is an acceptable use under my copyright terms. You are a software author who has created a Solar System simulator and you want to use my planet texture maps in your program. Here are some examples of usage that I hope will clear the situation up: The maps may not be given away in whole or in part on another website or in a freeware or commercial product without my permission. The maps may not be repackaged with 3D models and sold in any form. The maps may not be included as they exist on this site in any kind of commercial, shareware, or freeware product without my permission. That is to say, the results of using the maps are free to use and distribute, but the maps as direct source material for those results may not be, unless you have my permission. where the primary intent is to distribute the maps themselves and not the result of using the maps, without my permission. You are not free to redistribute the maps 'as is' in any medium - online, CD, for sale, etc. The maps are free to download and use as source material or resource in artwork or rendering (CGI or real time) in any kind of project - personal, commercial, broadcast, or display. Image, a larger, more detailed version will open in a new window.Īll textures and images on this site are Copyright (c) by James Hastings-Trew. The number refers to the horizontal resolution of the image.Ī 4K image is 4000 pixels wide. I have chosen to label these 1K, 2K, 4K,Įtc. I've tried to keep the prices reasonable and fair. This has been done to help defray the costs associated with hosting this site. Some of the larger maps and the 3D objects require PayPal payment. If you use any other projection method, the map will appear distorted These maps are simple cylindrical projections,ĭesigned to be applied to spheres using spherical projection. The pages you will find the occasional rendering tip. Show you how it will look in your artwork.

Source of each map, and a small sample rendering of the map to You can obtain high-quality texture maps of the planets for the Solar system, scavenging data where I could and piecing together Once I had completed both a bump andĬolor map of the Earth, I turned to the other planets in our Painting, and reference to USGS digital elevation map data.

So I created my own using scanned data, lots of Piece, and was suprised to discover that such a thing was pretty One day I neededĪn image map of our planet for use in a rendering for a printed

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