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Decided to start a topic for my addons because they will eventually number many.

I am currently working on my Grand Tour project which uses maps created by scientists to accurately map as much of the solar system in detail up to 64K when possible.

You can check out my Titan project HERE which adds 64K textures, 16K specular, 2K bump, and 8K clouds to Titan.


Project for the other moons of Saturn and its rings HERE Which adds 16K overlays to the medium moons and rings and adds textures to a couple smaller ones too.

Project for the satellites of the Ice Giants HERE Which adds never before combined maximum possible resolution and coverage to the satellites of Uranus and enhances Triton.

Project for Ceres HERE

Project for Pluto HERE


Project for Jupiter system HERE

8K texture for the Sun HERE

Mercury Grand Tour HERE


Venus HERE

Projected Texture sizes and Status of completion:
Sun 8K COMPLETED

Mercury 64K COMPLETED

Venus 64K COMPLETED

Earth 64K PAUSED

Moon 64K COMPLETED

Mars 64K COMPLETED

Phobos 16K* COMPLETED
Deimos 8K* COMPLETED

Jupiter 16K COMPLETED
Jupiter Rings* 16K COMPLETED
Metis 1K* COMPLETED
Amalthea 1K* COMPLETED
Thebe 1K* COMPLETED
Io 16K TO BE UPDATED
Europa 64K TO BE UPDATED
Ganymede 64K COMPLETED
Callisto 16K COMPLETED

Saturn 4K ALREADY IN CELESTIA
Saturn Rings 16K* COMPLETED
Saturn Outer Rings 4K* COMPLETED
Pan 2K* IN PROGRESS
Atlas 4K* IN PROGRESS
Mimas 8K* COMPLETED
Methone 2K* COMPLETED
Enceladus 16K COMPLETED
Tethys 16K COMPLETED
Dione 16K COMPLETED
Helene 4K* COMPLETED
Rhea 16K COMPLETED
Titan 64K COMPLETED
Iapetus 16K COMPLETED
Phoebe 4K* COMPLETED

Uranus 4K ALREADY IN CELESTIA
Puck 1K* IN PROGRESS
Miranda 8K COMPLETED
Ariel 4K COMPLETED
Umbriel 1K COMPLETED
Titania 2K COMPLETED
Oberon 1K COMPLETED
Neptune 4K ALREADY IN CELESTIA
Larissa 1K* IN PROGRESS
Proteus 4K* IN PROGRESS
Triton 16K COMPLETED

Ceres 64K COMPLETED
Pluto 32K COMPLETED
Charon 16K COMPLETED

Vesta 16K* COMPLETED
Gaspra 8K* COMPLETED
Ida 8K* COMPLETED
Dactyl 1K* COMPLETED
Mathilde 4K* COMPLETED
Eros 16K* COMPLETED
Annefrank 1K* COMPLETED
Itokawa 8K* COMPLETED
Steins 4K* COMPLETED
Lutetia 4K* COMPLETED
Toutatis 8K* IN PROGRESS
Ryugu 8K* COMPLETED
Bennu 16K* COMPLETED
Castalia 1K COMPLETED

Halley 1K* COMPLETED
Wild 2 4K* COMPLETED
Borrelly 4K* COMPLETED
Hartley 2 4K* COMPLETED
Tempel 1 16K* IN PROGRESS
* indicates irregular object that cannot have a texture larger than 16K

Shadow-Dragon-777 wrote:My next project will be for the Dwarf Planets. I plan to do a 16K Charon, 32K Pluto, and 64K Ceres.

i thought pluto yealed higher resolution than ceres?

There is probably a better high resolution mapping of Ceres due to the fact that Dawn spacecraft has was in its orbit between 2015 and 2018, in low orbits 200 km-1000 km. This allowed the mapping of Ceres in high resolution. As for Pluto, New Horizons spacecraft made just one quick flyby on July 14, 2015, 12,500 km away. And due to such a tilt of Pluto, even a part was not mapped, which was on the dark side.

SpaceExplorer wrote:There is probably a better high resolution mapping of Ceres due to the fact that Dawn spacecraft has was in its orbit between 2015 and 2018, in low orbits 200 km-1000 km. This allowed the mapping of Ceres in high resolution. As for Pluto, New Horizons spacecraft made just one quick flyby on July 14, 2015, 12,500 km away. And due to such a tilt of Pluto, even a part was not mapped, which was on the dark side.

darkside was mapped my new horizons (a part of it) charonshine on pluto

and the rest of the darkside was mapped by hubble before new horizons

The point, trappistplanets, is that New Horizons did not cover Pluto anywhere near as well as Dawn covered Ceres.

Added the Dwarf Planets... next up will be Jupiter with 5 of its moons

There has been an update to my Titan addon.
I have added an 8K Cloud texture that replaces the janky default one.
I have also fixed a typo in the bumpmap code. I accidentally put in the value of the difference of the elevation extremes without dividing by 2, this lead to abnormally long shadows on the bumpmap. This is now fixed.

Jupiter system has been uploaded, you can find the link in the pilot post of this topic.

viewtopic.php?f=30&t=23010

Models of Nix and Hydra. I may or may not do a project down the line to add models, problem with models is you have to size them, orientate them, and convert them.

Completed Mercury and a revamp of the Saturn system.

I have uploaded a beta release of the Grand Tour Venus which only has the 4K clouds and 64K surface. The rest will be added later. I may not be able to work on projects for a while because of hurricane Ian.
There will also be a release of Ceres and Pluto/Charon as separate addons down the road due to popular demand.

Pluto/Charon and Ceres now separate addons
Venus finished

Grand Tour Mars has been updated. I have not updated this topic in a while.
The Grand Tour Mars can be found here