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This is McWgog's 256-byte Mimas Bump Map and 512-byte Mimas surface texture. Do we really need to keep these add-ons around when much better, and higher-resolution images are available by the boatload? Comments? One could argue that since (unless I'm very blind) this seems to be the only bumpmap pf...

You mean something like this?



Pretty neat screenshot, actually.

Edit: As Selden described while I was making the screenshot.
Edit again: 1920x1080 yummy goodness.

chris wrote:Part of the problem is that right now, light scattered by the atmosphere isn't considered when calculating the brightness of a point on the Earth's surface.

Any plans anytime soon to consider this atmosphere light scattering to brighten the surface?

Incorrect. That screenshot was taken using OpenGL 2.0. Plus, even in your screenshots, the nighttime lights are showing up in the daylight.

1.5.0pre4: http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6697/3dmarspre4yl7.th.jpg 1.5.0pre5: http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/853/3dmarspre5ft6.th.jpg Both default installations. Exact same scene taken at the exact same moment in time. Notice how the FPS is actually higher in pre5? You're doing it wrong.

I'm not sure if this is really a "bug", but it sure has been bugging me. http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9928/nightlightsdf2.th.jpg This is a picture of North America as it is right now as I type, 2:15ish PM CST. As you can see, a large portion of the US has the nighttime texture partially on, so...

t00fri wrote:[Just to be sure: with "super pixelated" you mean the blocking effects we have displayed above from various cards that do NOT contain G80 chips.

Correct. super pixelated = blocking effects. And the 7900GT is a G71 chip and the 6200 is a NV44 chip I believe.

Thanks to Fridger's .exe, I have verified that both my 7900GT and my 6200 have the same super pixelated cloud shadows. I wish I could have compiled from code myself, but I had a hell of a time with the environment variables when trying to build it. Oh well. Maybe I'll get around to figuring it out s...

OK. I have the SDK installed. I have Visual Studio 2005 Express C++ installed. Following the directions at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Development/Win32_platform/Tortoise_CVS I have TortoiseCVS installed. But when I try to checkout the sourcecode, I get the following error: connect to cvs....

Johaen, It's documented in the Celestia WikiBook. See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Development/Win32_platform I am aware of this. ;) I was already there and that's how I got to where I'm at. I already DLed the SDK, but the link to Visual Studio 2005 Express C++ only leads to the 2008 editi...

I'd love to test it on both the 7900GT and the 6200 I have installed on my machine, but I am unable to build from the source. I've been doing some research on how to do so. I've been unable to find a place to download Visual Studio 2005 Express C++.

I've tried it out using Don's 4k Mars DDS texture. It's interesting, but not detailed enough to be worth it, in my opinion. I did notice something odd happening though. Whenever I use any render path other than OpenGL 2.0, it works just fine. But when I switch to OpenGL 2.0, the entire planet disapp...

Unlike 3dmars-ver6 at my web site, this model is simple and uses only 1 texture which is whatever mars texture you have called mars.*. It has the same amount of triangles though. So I downloaded the 8k shaded version by Praesepe at the ML and renamed it to mars.dds. The texture you use is limited b...

There are black spots in the atmospheres of stars when viewed at a certain distance. When you get closer, the black spots disappear. When you get further away, the atmosphere disappears. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7067/starblackspotseu4.th.jpg It appears in all render paths. Changing the FOV...

Bob, I'm not sure how complex you are wanting, but I just created this quick little example: http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3025/trancparancytestig9.th.png (Make sure to click it to actually see the gradient. For some reason the thumbnail doesn't seem to be showing the transparency.) What I did:...

I've only cried while listening to music once, and it was while watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzoubJEO-nU I actually just started watching it again and almost started to cry again. I had to stop watching it, lol. I really don't know why it does this to me. I don't think it's th...

Dammit Fridger, you beat me to it. lol.

Did you try M 101 (with a space)?

I just bought a Sharp Aquos 42" 1080p LCD, and I thought I'd try out Celestia on it. I'm amazed at the detail you can see. All images rendered at 1920x1080. Over the amazon: http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/292/amazonei9.th.jpg ISS Over England: http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4120/iisoverengland...

Neat pictures buggs_moran. I had no idea moons could eclipse eachother in Celestia.