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Those shadows look too big... as if the clouds are very very high above the earth...

I found Celestia while searching for space simulators on Google. I also found Orbiter, though Celestia is more fun, somehow.

Wow, that is amazing! I love how subtle all the storms are. Great bump mapping too.

Rassilon wrote:The eye on the ringed planet is bigger than my jovian's!

Nice work...

Thank you Your Jovian is awesome, may I ask how you did it?

How about an 'atomic inverter gun'?

Wow, that looks cool! Great work!

Thanks! I've done another planet, a ringed gas giant called Albino with a radius of 63000km. It has an earthlike moon called British Child Actors, with a radius of 4340km. I'm going to make more moons later. I'm not happy with the texture. It seems very blurry. I think my next attempt at a gas giant...

Wow, that is a gorgeous texture. Great work!

I have a friend named Ross, so I decided to make a joke system about him :) The planets are Fernwood, Redwood, and Arrogant. Redwood has a moon called Honors Geometry. Fernwood is a planet much like mercury. However, one side is always facing Ross 128. Thus, one half is nearly completely molten, and...

Post any pictures made with Celestia. I was surprised there wasn't already a pic thread for this beautiful space sim! That's probably because you can just say what addons you're using and then post a cel:// URL link to send people there 'in person' in Celestia... Saves on the bandwidth too :). True...

I read about that quite recently. Jupiter is an amazing planet.

Post any pictures made with Celestia. I was surprised there wasn't already a pic thread for this beautiful space sim! Editing is allowed :) Also, if you're using addons or mods for the picture, you should tell us what it is. This is from the Zeta Reticulis system. A planet called Cylliat. Definately...

Johaen wrote:Photoshop costs money

There's a free 30 day trial

You can also convert .jpg and .png textures to .DDS with Photoshop. Nvidia makes some very good plugins for this, you can find them with a quick google search of "nvidia photoshop plugins". The same plugin will also generate normal maps from an RGB image (based on height) This is not the right way t...

I use 3dsmax. Great program, very powerful and easy to use. Also, exports the best .3ds files for an obvious reason :p

Oh wow, that looks beautiful. Nice find, I'm definately looking out for this one!