Textures

Guest · Post #1by **Guest** » 12.04.2002, 17:14

I've tried downloading other maps of the planets at higher resolutions than the default maps. When I try to use them they don't seem to work unless I alter their size to that of the old maps, thereby losing the resolution. What am I doing wrong ?

Guest · Post #2by **Guest** » 12.04.2002, 18:58

P.S. I've also tried the hi-res Earth .dds file : that didn't work at all.

Guest · Post #3by **Guest** » 13.04.2002, 03:23

I believe the .dds files only work with Geforce and Radeon cards.

Regarding the other textures you have downloaded from the web try resizing to match any of the following dimensions:

2048x1024
4096x2048
8192x4096

I downloaded a weird sized texture once; something like 10000x5000, and I had to change its size to one of the above before it would work in Celestia.

Also I believe Chris, the programs developer, once said that a video card of 64mb+ of memory would be required to use 8192x4096 texture.

I hope the above helped get your new textures up and running with the better resolution you were looking for.

Guest · Post #4by **Guest** » 01.05.2002, 06:39

I believe the .dds files only work with Geforce and Radeon cards.

It does very well with my Geforce2 64Mo using the BigEarth.dds :lol:

but don't forget to modify the solarys.ssc file.

Marc.