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Hi eveyone,

Just wondered if anyone has experienced anything like this...

I am using John van Vilet's 2-4K Jupiter and 2-4k Io textures as alt-surfaces.
When I select his texture as the alt-surface for Jupiter, the Io surface reverts back to the normal texture.

Visa-versa, if I then re-select JvV's surface for Io, then Jupiter reverts back to the normal one.

I cannot get both JvV's surfaces to display at the same time.

I've converted his original Jupiter texture into a JPG VT (2 tiles level0, 8 tiles level1).
The Io texture I've left as a straight PNG.

I suspect this is most likely a problem with my graphics or with the way I've configured the textures, but thought I'd check to see if anyone else has ever had similar experiences.

Here's a CelURL if anyone would like to test this for themselves

JUPITER

SSC:


CTX:



IO

SSC:


(2K is in medres, 4K in hires)


Any ideas??

The same AltSurface name is applied to all bodies simultaneously. If you want a particular set of textures to be visible on all bodies simultaneously, you have to give them all the same AltSurface name. e.g.

Sorted!!

(Well, you learn something new every day!! )

Thanks for the swift reply Selden.

I think this will not be the last time I'm struck by this feature. (Because of the way I organise addons in my extras directory ..
eg.

Jupiter stuff and Io stuff will be in their own sub-folders, so they have separate SSC's, rather than having all alt-surface definitions in the one file.

I do like having every addon self-contained, but I suppose I could have a single "alt-surfaces.ssc" at the top level of the extras folder and just add definitions to this as new addons are installed. This would make it easier to keep the names consistent, and I guess any textures which were removed (whether permanently or temporarily) would just have no effect when selected at a later date.