locations "postcard"
Posted: 30.09.2003, 22:54
Hi all,
I've been enjoying looking around for contenders for my world wonders location list; the locations themselves are a bit disappointing, no matter how big the virtual textures, its not going to work on something like, for example the Angel Falls. What I'd like to do is make available a postcard type picture at the appropriate location. (here I'm drifting off, thinking if Celestia supported gifs, you could have one of those waterfall pictures that many chinese restaurants have...) How to do this without linking outside of celestia is the thing...
I've considered putting in pictures as tiles at level 9 or 10, but can't convert to dds to try it, alternatively, more complicatedly, making a model, and applying the pictures to that, then treating it as a craft, parked in a synchronous orbit at the surface, this is going to need an ssc too, and would have to be selected away from the location itself.
Anyone like this idea? Think of a better way to do it ? Would it be straightforward to do? All help much valued.
regards ziggy
ps.
Location "Angel Falls-World's Highest" "Sol/Earth"
{
LongLat [ -62.50 5.80 0 ]
Size 10
Type "XX"
Importance 40
}
I've been enjoying looking around for contenders for my world wonders location list; the locations themselves are a bit disappointing, no matter how big the virtual textures, its not going to work on something like, for example the Angel Falls. What I'd like to do is make available a postcard type picture at the appropriate location. (here I'm drifting off, thinking if Celestia supported gifs, you could have one of those waterfall pictures that many chinese restaurants have...) How to do this without linking outside of celestia is the thing...
I've considered putting in pictures as tiles at level 9 or 10, but can't convert to dds to try it, alternatively, more complicatedly, making a model, and applying the pictures to that, then treating it as a craft, parked in a synchronous orbit at the surface, this is going to need an ssc too, and would have to be selected away from the location itself.
Anyone like this idea? Think of a better way to do it ? Would it be straightforward to do? All help much valued.
regards ziggy
ps.
Location "Angel Falls-World's Highest" "Sol/Earth"
{
LongLat [ -62.50 5.80 0 ]
Size 10
Type "XX"
Importance 40
}
