Celestia Forums

See this thread on the Ubuntu forums for more info relating to this.. hoping someone here might have some suggestions. Seems that something that celestia is doing is causing a segfault in the ATI DRI driver. This happens with an older driver version as well as the latest.. maybe I have a conflicting...

Jeam Tag wrote:what are the funny dots that orbit around these Ancient Earths in your screenshots?

isn't it obvious? they are orbiting space cities built by the ancient atlanteans of the pangeac age.

0 long down the centre, eh? will do thanks for your comments everyone. i definitely want to add things like erosion, weathering, clouds, etc. i'll fix the longitude problem and update the files. thanks!

edit: okay, uploaded. refresh thanks again.

Just a quick glimpse of a texture I'm working on. It's my first texture, so please bear with me. :) Just 2048x1024 for now. I can create and release a 16k version if there's enough demand. Anyway, comments and critiques are most welcome. http://www.mikeeheler.ca/mike/bluemars-color.jpg Colour Map ht...

I think that's probably the best you're going to find until we get some mapping satellites up there. Keep us posted if you do find one, though.. always looking for a better Jupiter texture.

Hi, I'm looking for a software, preferably a gimp 2.0 or photoshop plugin that can take image maps such as the blue marble or the various 2:1 texture maps for planets, and "straighten" out the aspect so that the flat map is not stretched as latitude increases. My goal is to end up with an image wher...

I won't condone piracy, but fortunately Painter 7 was on the required software list for school, so I already have it. I'll try that out, thanks!

Hrm. Getting access forbidden errors.

haul out the "is pluto a planet?" debate cards again.. this one could be the clincher.

how about this for qualification:

1. orbits sun
2. min. radius of 2,000km
3. rocky core? (not sure if this is true for all 4 of the gas giants)

care to expand?

i've seen plenty of info and tools for converting bump maps to normal maps, but how about the other way around?

Yep, definitely a great specular map, although it's only 8k. The biggest difference I find, other than the river detail, is that the ice sheets are speculared (is that a word? ) out. It's the same one that I use in my earth renders as well.

i found that new setting kind of odd.. what do you guys / gals set it to?

wild. i ask, was there theory behind how the light reflects off of the liquid?

Just wanna give a thanks to everyone here for posting such useful information. This allowed me to understand what components make up a good picture of a planet.. I'm pretty very young in my 3D career, so I thought I'd take up the challenge of seeing if I could make a nice earth render using the Blue...

does anyone have a site they can mirror the files on?

I like how nasa put together a download for Celestia that included a 32k blue marble and high-res mars.. my textures\hires dir is currently about 2 gigs but yeah, anyone thinking about downloading nasa's blue_vt.zip, here's a preview (so you can see if you like it first.. click for 2kx1k version): h...

it's so slow, though. i've managed to compile high-res textures for the earth, the moon, mars, and the four galilean satellites of jupiter. those i got from john's page, and they're magnificent.. took bloody forever to grab 'em, though. i've stumbled across a higher resolution cloudscape for venus, ...

wow, very cool man. i'm very much looking forward to this. keep it up.

You've probably all seen this by now, but for anyone who hasn't yet:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2004/3.cfm

Interesting. I just upgraded my Catalyst drivers in Windows.. Saturn works fine now, except for with ring shadows on.. turn those on and *boom* slowness to the nth degree. I'll start sending in those bug reports. Thanks!