Planets which are NOT Spherical

[karakris]

In my Krissyverse - the Iota System has a Planet Jinx, orbiting a dull red Dwarf Star.

Now - Jinx is loosely based on "Jink" in the Larry Niven "known space" series.

That is - a PROLATE Spheroid, with its axis vertical.
It has a ratio of 1.2 North-South to 1.0 equatorial diameter.

I KNOW it is not stable - and I am not gonna TRY to explain how it got that way.
It is slowly changing - moving to a simple spherical shape.

However - at the moment, there is an equatorial ocean, habitable zones North and South - Ice Caps at the Poles actually stick out of the atmosphere.

I want to be able to model this System properly - ATM "Jinx" is simply spherical in the Simulation, and
of course I cannot do the Asteroid Belts properly - so I did not try.

Here is a view

[Deathzilla7]

Yeah, we need some other shaped planets. I would like a cube planet, myself. Like the one they had in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[SuperNova]

Yeah, we need some other shaped planets. I would like a cube planet, myself. Like the one they had in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

1.Take a 3D Cube.
2.Put earth Texture on it.
3.Import into Universe Sandbox.
4.?
5.Profit!

[karakris]

I must be damn stupid - coz I would NOT know how to do that at all !!

[Deathzilla7]

Heh. I will try.

[Deathzilla7]

Awesome, i works. Made a cube in Blender. But, uh... Why does it copy the earth map to each side? Can't it stretch around?

[deoxy99]

Awesome, i works. Made a cube in Blender. But, uh... Why does it copy the earth map to each side? Can't it stretch around?

You can probably do that, you just have to increase the texture size, or use the UV editor to do that.

[smjjames]

If it had a very high rotation then that could explain it. Theres another Science Fiction world, I forget the author of the book, but it has these mesklinites which are adapted to extreme gravity, but the planet that they live on doesn't seem physically possible as it's a squashed oval and so would have broken apart or maybe that planet is more massive than I thought it was in the book.