Here's Triton...

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Here's Triton...

Post #1by Vicware » 16.04.2002, 05:47

I took that semi-map of Triton and created this temp map. I'm
sure it doesn't look much like this.

Vic

http://www.bandplay.com/space/TritonMapFix.jpg

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Post #2by Rassilon » 16.04.2002, 23:23

Where did you get this or did you make it? Its an improvement over the origional to say the least...

btw, if you like I can conjure up a bump map for it...
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!

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Post #3by Vicware » 17.04.2002, 00:28

I derived it from that jpg someone put up the other day.

Any way I can help the process. I hope Chris adds it to the medres
folder. If there's any graphic you want me to fix or embellish on,
please put it up on this forum. I wish I could see the results of
bump maps - my Viper770 doesn't do it.

Did you ever get the 12 asteroids I made? (I made them because
.cms files crash Celestia every time on my cpu)

Vic

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Post #4by Rassilon » 17.04.2002, 00:44

You ought to atleast get a GeForce Ti200 as there pretty cheap right now...$100 at the most...

Recent planet I did making bump mapping for it...

http://cybermindtraveller.freewebspace.com/pics/wezen.jpg

Heres one of the moon using the dds file supported mainly by the Invidia chipset on the Geforce cards...

http://cybermindtraveller.freewebspace.com/pics/moon.jpg
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The Triton image

Post #5by Matt McIrvin » 17.04.2002, 02:49

Vicware wrote:I derived it from that jpg someone put up the other day.


By the way, as I said before, I'm not sure what the copyright/credit issues would be if we redistributed something derived from that image-- it probably said somewhere on that site, but I didn't find it with a cursory inspection...

I did mess around with it a little myself and determine that it did indeed look pretty cool as a Celestia texture.

There seem to be many publicly distributed images from NASA and other agencies for which it's OK to re-use them for non-commercial purposes, but the original investigators want some sort of acknowledgement, which we could put in the readme.

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Post #6by Matt McIrvin » 17.04.2002, 02:54

Rassilon wrote:Where did you get this or did you make it? Its an improvement over the origional to say the least...


It was derived from this:

http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/solarsy ... rimap1.htm

Based on 1989 Voyager images.

Oh, and I found his copyright page:

http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/solarsy ... yright.htm

But in this particular case the guy maintaining the site is not the author.

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Post #7by Vicware » 17.04.2002, 03:06

http://cybermindtraveller.freewebspace.com/pics/wezen.jpg

Heres one of the moon using the dds file supported mainly by the Invidia chipset on the Geforce cards...

http://cybermindtraveller.freewebspace.com/pics/moon.jpg
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I hate to tell you this, but it looks like that moon bump map is inverted.
If you look at which direction the sun is, the craters are mounds instead
of craters. I think.

Vic

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Post #8by Rassilon » 17.04.2002, 03:11

I know...Its not mine...Its Celestia's...but it still looks better with the dds file...that much is for certain...

I will do a better moon bump someday I think...
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!


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