At Selden's Request

[selden]

Bob,

Well, we aren't that far apart...

Pre11 has three different star representations: disc (new), fuzzy points (old) and points (old). You can type a Control-S to toggle among them.

[granthutchison]

I simply found a saturn rings texture PNG at CVS that was sized at 1024 x 64, and the thing now looks BEAUTIFUL as it should.

So you've gone back to a previous version of the texture? Do I take it you've tried the current (ie downloaded as part of 1.3.1pre11) 1024x2 texture and it didn't work? That's a real problem, if so.

Grant

[Guest]

Grant,

I don't THINK that I tried the rings that came with 1.3.1...

Heck, I've tried so MANY versions of the rings textures that I just don't remember.

At any rate, all is now well. A bit of advice for anyone ELSE who tries to use textures which are larger than they should be... I found a great, free program called Pixia which I will now use from here on out to resize PNG files.

It allows you to create a re-sized, EXACT duplicate of the texture you're interested in, and displays everything you need to know in order to save the transparency information, etc.

The url is http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/download.htm

Trust me, this is a GREAT addition to the Celestia Addict's Tool Bag.

Take care, Bob

[Star Lion]

Uh you only haveto replace a grapicks card to get your preformance to double Selden!
I recently installed a G-Force FX 5200 in a P3(350 mhz) system with 512 megs of SD ram running windows 98, and saw an amazing speed increes over the G-Force 2 that was there

[John Van Vliet]

To me it looks as if the ring image, in the medres folder, is not transparent .

[Bob Hegwood]

Read the posts above, John...

I *did* get the problem solved using a program called Pixia. It wasn't the transparency so much as it was the SIZE of my textures.

Thanks anyway.

Take care, Bob