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Hi, Fenerit. I dont understand you problem. I could to use earth.jpg with celestia. First, I convert it to .png with Photoshop and voila!

Andrea: Newly: warning, I know a very little english. Im fast today! I send you the map in jpg format because png format is four times greater (using Photoshop). You can follow the counsels wrote in forum. Earth.jpg dont work directly in Celestia 1.2. I must convert it to png format for see it (eart...

Yes, of course!. But, wait twice days, and I will put a link to map.

Thanks, Andy. I will try it. I will put the new earth.jpg and dont will leave cloud map. I wish see the clouds over the map!

Celestia has 3 textures for Earth: clouds, night-lights and other named "earth.png". This image is like a .GIF: it has areas of transparent color in same place of continents: only seas are opaque. I dont know what provide terrain information. Mars has only one texture.

A tiny thing: other utilities of Celestia: For long time I sought over Internet any "virtual globe map", geographical and political, unsuccessfully (Google Earth dont serve for this). Then, I fell in an idea: to change the Celestia textures. So, I scanned a world map and apply it as Mars texture. (E...

(four years later :) ) I too read it. Amazing. I thought draw it with 3DStudio Max, but.. the South Pole is a esthetics problem. It must seems as a vault of gothic cathedral. One axis and six spears with graceful buttress... much for me. One architect he can. The remain structure is very easy. Lengt...

Good news and hope for poors users of video SiS. After to probe that Celestia 1.5 run right without acceleration, turn off the pc and go away. Today turn on the machine and activate the acceleration 3D. Then, run Celestia for verify. It looks ok! Why? I dont know. Mi 3d card onboard is exactly a SiS...

Hello, Forum. Newly, excuseme for my terrific englis. Well, I try Celestia 1.5 without SIS 3d on board acceleration and it work right. Few slowly, "turtlern", but fine. Microprocessor temperature jump from 32 to 45 degree celsius. I thought that dont would work because a friend can't, under same sit...

Excuse me for my bad english. I have a Gigabyte mother GA-8S661FMX-F with on board SIS 3d card, 384 mb ddr 333 mhz, Pentium 4 Northwood, 2.4 Ghz, Wxp SP2 32bits, DirectX 9.0c, Open Gl 1.2 Celestia 1.2 work fine! My problem is with Celestia 1.4.1 or upper. It don't shade. The planets seems like globe...