CGI Moon Kit VS Shadowmap

I started with NASA's "CGI Moon Kit" [1] to do my little voxel-based moon game, Mooncraft2000. Higher-resolution data would have been cool – but at some point the enormity of the data would probably mean I would have to stick to a small area of the Moon lest I fill my little server with tiles, ha ha. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

Some more information, I am using a sun lightsource in the roughly 30m away. I am using a GAIA DR2 Image for the background of the galactic plane, set on strength 0.1. For the moon I am using the NASA CGI Kit, with the Color plugged into a principled shader, and the displacement image plugged into a displacement node, into the displacement output. Source: 10 months ago

These great Moon images were obtained from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio : https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720 using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera and laser altimeter instruments. Source: almost 2 years ago

If anyone wants the texture, it can be found here from NASA. Source: over 2 years ago

Yeah I used this one from NASA https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720. Source: over 2 years ago

Great job OP! I love how snappy your app is. And it's great that there are now more and more tools being developed in this scope. I started out some years ago with app.shadowmap.org – out of being depressed in Viennese/Austrian winters (narrow roads, low Sun … you get it), in an attempt to find the Sun in and outside of the city. And now this tool is used in various fields – including backcountry/outdoors – which... Source: over 2 years ago

It's a bit tricky with high zoom levels because there might be a mountain 5 miles away that's casting shade on your block but at high zoom levels, features far away tend to be ignored for performance reasons. I've been using the map for mountaineering and in my experience it's quite accurate +/-2 to 3 minutes. Do you live in the extreme north or south? Maybe the elevation data for your region is not accurate. The... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

3D, freemium, topography + structures: https://app.shadowmap.org/. Source: almost 3 years ago