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PlanetStitch
Planets are rendered using a Blender scene file that outputs 256 frames of animation for planets. This is difficult to manually assemble in graphics tools like PhotoShop so a simple GUI tool was developed to load all frames of animation, stitch them together into a single texture atlas and save out the atlas as a transparent PNG file. A preview is also provided to show how the planet will look in-game.