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Hi Fridger,

I updated the Matrox driver yesterday; I have the last one.

But, what do you mean by "What VT tiles did you take as base texture and as specular texture"?

I again forgot this step I think.

Shame on me!

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Woody

I forgot to say that I run Celestia win32-1.5.0pre3

Hi Fridger (& cartrite), I ran your vtgen.bat script on the "srtm_ramp2.world.86400x43200.bin.gz" all the night and this morning, I got a successful alert window on my screen. Pleasant wakening! I copied the "Earth"folder and the "Earth.ssc" file to the "extra" directory in Celestia. When I laun...

I worked on a wrong file and didn't took time to read some theory before playing with my machine and get asap the result.

Too impatient!

Tonight, I will try with srtm_ramp2.world.86400x43200.bin.gz and vtgen.bat.

Thanks again

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Woody

Cartrite,

The Earth was totally white without any texture.

What about the localization of the tiles folder outside the Programs files directory ?

Hello, I follow "exactly" the procedure described on the tutorial but with another file: not the "world.200406.3x86400x43200.bin.gz", but with "gebco_bathy.21601x10801.bin.gz" (280 855 Ko) because I want to work on the ocean bathymetry. It's probablly the reason why I failed: the dimension aren't th...

Thanks cartrite & selden for yours links. I studied the docs and wrote the .ctx & .ssc files that I place in the Celestia directory as follow : C:\Program Files\Celestia\extras\gebco_bathy.ssc AltSurface "gebco_bathy" "Sol/Earth" { Texture "gebco_bathy.ctx"...

Hi everybody, I just discoverd Celestia and Nmtools yesterday. I already achieve to produce the .dxtEn tiles from gebco_bathy.21601x10801.bin.gz. What is the next step to use them with Celestia ? I read about some .ctx and .ssc configuration files, but didn't find any clear explanation. So I need yo...