alt Hacker NewsIn practice you can use 2d generation on spheres with simple UV mapping techniques. Your pixel height becomes distance from the sphere origin.
In practice you can use 2d generation on spheres with simple UV mapping techniques. Your pixel height becomes distance from the sphere origin.
Will it not get all bunched up near the poles though? and maybe have seam where the ends of the tiles meet?
edit: Perlin noise and similar noise functions can be sampled in 3d which sorta fixes the issues i mention , and higher dimensions but i am not sure how that would be used.