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I've been having so much fun with this program, I thought I'd post some pics that I took to share with you all



Click on the thumbnails for larger versions. This is a mix of all kinds of stuff I found in the textures forum.. DBrady's Mars texture and normal map, Don Edwards' 16k Earth, 8k North Summer / South Winter clouds (which is turned off in the North America pic), and a normal map I think I also got from his site. Also moon & Io texture from Jens' site, moon normal map from texture forum, 2k (i think) Saturn texture from texture forum looks more like Cassini picture, Space Station V from a 2001 pack I found in someone's signature here, and high res night lights / aurora I think was also from Don's site. Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these.

Mike

Howdy galileo,

Looks like you've been having some FUN!

Thanks for sharing your screen shots.

Happy Holidays,

-Don G.

Hello galileo
If you like taking screen shots and showing them,
Why not start your own Celestia Gallery.

Just send Chris an E-mail and he will get you started with your own gallery space.

Just click my gallery link at the bottom to see what its like.

Welcome to the forum galileo!

I am compelled to agree with you on the add-ons subject. I understand that it is a labor of love for everyone who has contributed to Celestia, whether it be textures, cel scripts, tech support via the forums, 3D models, etc. I know I've said it before, but I have to thank you all again. I also realize that many hours of hard, tedious work has been put into all of these extras and add-ons. Additionally, others have spent numerous hours providing and updating websites to facilitate our search for, downloading of, and instructions for, these add-ons. I don't think enough can be said about all of you! I'm also thankful for the help you all seem to happily provide in these forums! I think it's simply amazing!
THANKS AGAIN from T.S. Chen. (Oh shoot, there I go, rhyming again!):|

How did you do DBrady?s Mars texture to work?It isn?t in my Celestia.It only appears a red feauterless disk.I don?t know if redmars VT is nterfering with it

DanielJ

My description may sound a bit over simplified, but this is for the benefit of any new users who may also be having a problem.

I'm running mine as an alternate texture with the following SSC which I have called 'Mars(D.Brady).ssc'; (It can be called anything you want!)



I've got everything placed in my main EXTRAS directory inside a file called
'Mars(D.Brady)' - again it can be called anything you want.
Inside this I have placed the above SSC file, and also have a 'TEXTURES' file as well.
Inside the TEXTURES file there is another file called 'MEDRES' where I have placed the CTX file 'MarsFlat.ctx';


also inside the 'MEDRES' file is another file that contains the actual texture tiles called 'MarsFlat' which the CTX file refers to.

Inside the 'MarsFlat' file are the individual tile files for levels 0 to 4. I have also added empty files for levels 5 to 10 in case of (hopefully )any future expansion to this texture.

Please note that because I am not running this as my main texture, my main solarsys.ssc has not been altered in any way from it's previous definition. But it might be worth checking that the filenames for your SSC and CTX files for your main texture and alternate texture are not clashing.

The normalmap I am using is also from D.Brady's site and I have simply put all the files for this(CTX and texture level files) inside a file called 'MarsNormalMapDXT3' and then put this into my main TEXTURES/MEDRES file.

hope this helps?

I also have problems with Brady's Mars. I don't get the surface texture to show up, and the normal map appears on part of the surface as it looks in an image editor (purple)! I use exactly your ssc and ctx's. I DO get a working virtual texture with the one based on RedMars by Space Graphics. Maybe something with the DDS format used in combination with an older graphics card (GeForce 2/32 MB)?

OK, I admit, not exactly I did make a typo, it works now... The difference between a ) and a } can be hard to see with certain fonts

I fully agree with the title of this thread, Celestia is a great program and a lot of fun to use although I must say Im having trouble getting the "41,000 City" addon working. I cannot get the names to appear at all, whether this is because my resolution is too low or Im not using the proper textures I dont know.
Well Ive said my piece Im off for another flyby past Metis.

lef wrote:I fully agree with the title of this thread, Celestia is a great program and a lot of fun to use although I must say Im having trouble getting the "41,000 City" addon working. I cannot get the names to appear at all, whether this is because my resolution is too low or Im not using the proper textures I dont know.
Well Ive said my piece Im off for another flyby past Metis.

Better, if you had told us your Celestia version...

You need Celestia 1.3.1prexx NOT 1.3.0 for the labels to display. Also just put the earth-Gazetteer-2.ssc into the 'extras' directory.

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:

lef wrote:I fully agree with the title of this thread, Celestia is a great program and a lot of fun to use although I must say Im having trouble getting the "41,000 City" addon working. I cannot get the names to appear at all, whether this is because my resolution is too low or Im not using the proper textures I dont know.
Well Ive said my piece Im off for another flyby past Metis.

Better, if you had told us your Celestia version...

You need Celestia 1.3.1prexx NOT 1.3.0 for the labels to display. Also just put the earth-Gazetteer-2.ssc into the 'extras' directory.

Bye Fridger

Ah my mistake, I am using 1.3.0. Sorry.