Seeing as there's a thread elsewhere asking for (among other things) an improved sun/star texture, I'd thought i'd be a good idea to post this sun texture based on real data (the current star texture in Celestia isn't, I think). It looks quite impressive in Celestia, similar to real astronomical photos. How realistic it is, I don't know... does anyone think it'd be a good idea to use this texture in the Celestia release? I'm sure the author would agree for us to use it.
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/sun/suncyl1.htm
(note: is it just me, or did Rassilon make a series of star textures based on this a while back?)
new (sort of) Sun/star texture
new (sort of) Sun/star texture
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Re: new (sort of) Sun/star texture
Sum0 wrote:Seeing as there's a thread elsewhere asking for (among other things) an improved sun/star texture, I'd thought i'd be a good idea to post this sun texture based on real data (the current star texture in Celestia isn't, I think). It looks quite impressive in Celestia, similar to real astronomical photos. How realistic it is, I don't know... does anyone think it'd be a good idea to use this texture in the Celestia release? I'm sure the author would agree for us to use it.
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/sun/suncyl1.htm
That looks like the sun's surface as seen through a hydrogen alpha filter. I imagine we want to use a texture that represents what the sun looks like in visible light in Celestia... still, it wouldn't hurt using it as an alternate texture for the sun, if that's possible?
