I'm not sure why I didn't think of it before, but texturing the planet isn't difficult, each face of the original cube is square so I can just apply the same texturing technique as I did before. I just have to recursively get all the noise values to a certain level of detail, normalise it and use this as a height map. The first go at this wasn't so successful.
I used parameters that would create a more asteroid-y looking planetoid just because it's easier to see where the problems are. In the above image I had set a texture coordinate wrong and this recursively led to the whole image looking really scrambled. After I got the coordinates sorted, the next problem appeared:
Basically, because I generate a height map and a texture for each patch (cube face) independently, what might have been the highest height for one patch, isn't the highest for another. So although one patch shows snow for its highest point, the neighbouring patch has higher points than that so it won't use snow for a point of the same height. I probably made that even more confusing than it actually is. Anyways, all I had to do was normalise all the patches with respect to all the other patches. The texture is starting to look like it's covering the model well - but there's a little seam to stretch over...
Now I've a textured planet! Unfortunately, I think the texture looks far too homogenous (looking the same all over) for an Earth-like planet.
However they seem like pretty good parameters for a moon or something like that, I just changed a few of the textures and got this moon.
Oh no... why did I do a full moon??? Now I've got hair growing on the backs of my hands and.... oh no... not now... I've turned into Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf!!! AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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