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Here's a model of the Apollo spacecraft created by Shrox, together with a .ssc file to place it in lunar orbit:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/files/shroxapollo.zip

Many thanks to Shrox for the beautifully detailed model . . . He created this awhile ago, but not until version 1.2.4 has Celestia been up to the task of properly rendering it.

For those new to the whole add-on thing, just unpack this file in your main Celestia directory. This should add the file apollo.ssc to the extras directory and apollo.3ds to models.

--Chris

Thanks Chris

The Apollo looks great. The only thing is I noticed while in orbit
with Apollo close to the moon the lunar texture map looked real yucky.
Is there a better moon map somewhere? As you know I can fix
up anything.

Vic

Vicware wrote:The Apollo looks great. The only thing is I noticed while in orbit
with Apollo close to the moon the lunar texture map looked real yucky.
Is there a better moon map somewhere? As you know I can fix
up anything.

Vic

I've got a 4k x 2k lunar map in DDS format that I used. It's in
http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/files . . . If DDS format doesn't work on your card, I can give you a 2k x 1k jpeg that will--it's not as nice as the DDS, but much better than the 1k x 512 map that comes in the Celestia distribution.

--Chris

Thats' a great model ! Could I have a copy of the JPEG hi-res moon map please ?


(Mad Boris)

chris wrote:

Vicware wrote:The Apollo looks great. The only thing is I noticed while in orbit
with Apollo close to the moon the lunar texture map looked real yucky.
Is there a better moon map somewhere? As you know I can fix
up anything.

Vic

I've got a 4k x 2k lunar map in DDS format that I used. It's in
http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/files . . . If DDS format doesn't work on your card, I can give you a 2k x 1k jpeg that will--it's not as nice as the DDS, but much better than the 1k x 512 map that comes in the Celestia distribution.

--Chris

Chris,

Is it possible to make the jpeg moon map more generally available for those of us with inferior graphics cards ?

Steve

Yes - I would love the higher res jpg for the moon. Can you put it up?

Vic