new user

[nreeany]

hi,

am a new user and, having a graphic card powerful enough, I would like to install 8K and bump earth add-ons from the Texture foundry.
However, I installed them in the Celestia directories but nothing changes.
What am I missing ?
Is there something to change in the celestia.cfg ?

Thanks for the help.

Henry

[Bob Hegwood]

Henry,

You have to tell Celestia to look for the new file definitions.

Open up your "solarsys.ssc" file with "NotePad" or its equivalent, then look at how each of the texture files are referenced. If you have added a new texture with a different name (in order to display an object with a different surface texture) you'll either have to modify the "solarsys.ssc" file to use the new textures (Not recommended unless you know what you're doing) or you can add alternate .ssc files in your "extras" directory to define the textures.

Have a look at Selden Ball's excellent reference page HERE for a great place to start learning about Celestia.

You can also find out much more by viewing this topic.

Hope that helps.

Take care, Bob