How to install the Moon 16K VT

[sieggi]

Unfortunately my command of English isn't good enough to understand your instructions, so my wife wrote this text for me. I installed the textures as follows:
Celestia\textures\hires\Moon16K VT\level*.*
But I can't see the textures on the moon. What is wrong with them?
Thank you very much for your help.
Best wishes from Munich, Bavaria, Germany. (Bavarian beer festival)
Siggi Kokott

[selden]

Siggi,

The easy fix is to rename
Moon16KVT.ctx ----> moon.ctx

Celestia looks for the texture moon.*

Or you can create an SSC file to define
Moon16KVT to be an AltSurface. That is more complicated.

[praesepe]

Hi Siggi,

Well you can do as selden says, or try renaming solarsys.ssc entry for moon texture definition from:

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"Moon" "Sol/Earth"
{
                    Texture "moon.*"
}

to:

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"Moon" "Sol/Earth"
{
                    Texture "moon16kvt.ctx"
}

This will force Celestia to use only that texture for the moon.


Another solution would be to define as an alternate surface so you can switch between more than one texture per object with the AltSurface command.

All you have to do is to create a new subfolder in the extras folder with the name you want taking into account the usual folder structure for addons: i.e.

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c:\program files\Celestia\extras\Moon16k VT\textures\medres\Moon16K VTvt\levelx\


create a ssc file with this code:

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AltSurface "Moon 16K VT" "Sol/Earth/Moon"
{
   Texture "Moon16KVT.ctx"
}

and save it in:

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c:\program files\Celestia\extras\Moon16K VT\


And that's all; now when you right-click on the moon you'll have the alternate surfaces option which give you the option to switch to this new map