Arrokoth, new mesh, new map

[trappistplanets]

recently a new Arrokoth mesh came out here
associated paper is this

so i made a CMOD of the mesh, and a natural color map using a Wikipedia image, this process involved in map making Blender, the new mesh, and Askaniy's TrueColorTools, did final cleanups in GIMP

(code below is originally from CO)

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"486958 Arrokoth:Arrokoth:2014 MU69:Ultima Thule:1110113Y:PT1" "Sol"
{
    Class    "asteroid"
    Mesh    "arrokoth.cmod"
    Orientation    [ -50 0 1 0 ]
    Texture    "arrokoth.*"
    Radius    18  # maximum semi-axis
    EllipticalOrbit
    {
        Epoch    2458484.5  # 2019 Jan 01 (New Horizons encounter)
        Period    297.371052339075
        SemiMajorAxis    44.55129423264393
        Eccentricity    0.04097873475827028
        Inclination    2.451769758298457
        AscendingNode    158.9786644650622
        ArgOfPericenter    174.6720281547497
        MeanAnomaly    315.8844151813905
    }
    UniformRotation
    {
        Period    15.938
        Inclination    98.18711913
        AscendingNode    42.5072541
    }
    LunarLambert    0.5
    GeomAlbedo    0.165
    BondAlbedo    0.061
    InfoURL    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth"
}

arrokoth.zip

GET mesh and texture here

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[EarthMoon]

I installed it in Celestia and I found an ugly model error.
The other parts/textures are fine, but the error is annoying.

See this page https://cel-earthmoon.glitch.me/_web/forum/videos/arrokoth-model-error.html for a small video.

Celestia version: 1.6.1
OS: Win 11

[SevenSpheres]

I don't see this issue in Celestia 1.6.2 or 1.7.0 on Windows 10. I don't seem to have 1.6.1 anymore, but I doubt the issue is specific to that version since 1.6.2 is basically the same. Is it possible that you have multiple Arrokoth textures, and Celestia isn't loading the texture from this addon (JPG) but a different texture (likely PNG)?

[EarthMoon]

I reinstalled the addon and the problem is gone!