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Cassini suggests some changes

Posted: 07.05.2004, 11:10
by flym
Did you look at the latest Cassini's image of Saturn?
Image

If you try to get an image like that with Celestia you can easily see that the shadows of rings over the Saturn's body is quite lighter in Celestia than in the Cassini's picture.
Probabily you have to enhance the rings opacity to get Celestia's picture more realistic.

Posted: 07.05.2004, 11:53
by selden
The ring shadows have been made much darker in Celestia v1.3.2pre7.

Posted: 17.07.2004, 16:14
by andyrock
What about ring shadows over the planet?

Posted: 17.07.2004, 16:25
by selden
Image

(this links to a much larger image)

Posted: 17.07.2004, 22:20
by andyrock
Is that nv30 only or something?
I'm using celestia CVS and cannot get that :-S

NV18 here (GF4MX)

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Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer : GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X/AGP/SSE
Version : 1.5.1 NVIDIA 61.06
Max simultaneous textures: 2
Max texture size: 2048


selden



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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 12:03 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
Ryan,

Sorry: your card doesn't support some of the necessary OpenGL functionality. My understanding is that the missing routine, which isn't supported by Nvida's MX or by their older chipsets, is ARB_texture_border_clamp

A list of the OpenGL routines supported by your graphics card is provided by Celestia's Help menu.


Got it ;) thanks anyway