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Thanks. I just wasn't sure. I know what the things in the ssc are but I don't really know what to put in them to get an object in the correct place.


Brandon

I was looking at the position of the ISS according to http://science.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html and I noticed it was different than the position of the one that came with Celestia and an add-on I have. The add-on is Orion_Nebula's from the Celestia Motherlode site. I was wondering if there is a w...

Yeah that helps. I just wasn't sure if it was how it works or not. I hadn't seen it in any of the things I read about textures and virtual textures and add ons so I wanted to make sure.

Thanks for your help and your contributions to Celestia.

Brandon

I have a virtural texture for the earth and for the moon. When I switch the earth to use that texture and then I go to the moon and switch its texture it changes the earth back to the normal texture. I don't know if this is just how Celestia works or if it is becasue of something I have done. I can ...

Yeah that was kind of what I was thinking, I knew my video card wasn't that good and had been thinking I need a new one sometime.

Thanks for all your help.

Brandon

I did have the alternate surface 'Earth' selected when the picture was taken. I think the problem is with my graphics hardware. I thought that might be the problem but I just wanted to make sure I was trying everything right before I did anything with the hardware. This is what it shows me when I lo...

Also what does the bump map and the normal map do to change the apperance of the texture.

Brandon

I tried doing ctrl-v and still didn't notice a change. It could be the way I've set it up or I may not have a good enough graphics card, I'm not sure what I've got right now. Here is a picture of how I have it set up http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bmeaker/screen2.JPG Here is what my Earth looks like. http://...