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What happened to Phil Stooke?He was an specialist in modeling small bodies,but I didn??t found anything newer than 2000 textures(actually in his site was updated in 2000).We have several close up of asteroids and minor moons,but nothing new have been launched.Unfourtanetelly,no one had replaced Phil Stooke andwe have shortage of small bodies textures...
When we will have news about for example,a new texture for Hyperion?

danielj wrote:What happened to Phil Stooke?He was an specialist in modeling small bodies,but I didn??t found anything newer than 2000 textures(actually in his site was updated in 2000).We have several close up of asteroids and minor moons,but nothing new have been launched.Unfourtanetelly,no one had replaced Phil Stooke andwe have shortage of small bodies textures...
When we will have news about for example,a new texture for Hyperion?

Phil is alive and well, posting frequently on another forum that I visit often.

--Chris

OK,he is alive,but WHERE are new textures and models for the minor bodies,like asteroids and minor moons?Since the Phoebe model and texture in Celestia 1.4.1,nothing NEW has been released.I search in Google and in Selden Ball??s links and found NOTHING.Even the few lores textures like of Castalia are NO LONGER AVAILABLE.Did he give up in rendering the minor bodies?

chris wrote:

danielj wrote:What happened to Phil Stooke?He was an specialist in modeling small bodies,but I didn??t found anything newer than 2000 textures(actually in his site was updated in 2000).We have several close up of asteroids and minor moons,but nothing new have been launched.Unfourtanetelly,no one had replaced Phil Stooke andwe have shortage of small bodies textures...
When we will have news about for example,a new texture for Hyperion?

Phil is alive and well, posting frequently on another forum that I visit often.

--Chris

danielj wrote:OK,he is alive,but WHERE are new textures and models for the minor bodies,like asteroids and minor moons?Since the Phoebe model and texture in Celestia 1.4.1,nothing NEW has been released.I search in Google and in Selden Ball??s links and found NOTHING.Even the few lores textures like of Castalia are NO LONGER AVAILABLE.Did he give up in rendering the minor bodies?

chris wrote:

danielj wrote:What happened to Phil Stooke?He was an specialist in modeling small bodies,but I didn??t found anything newer than 2000 textures(actually in his site was updated in 2000).We have several close up of asteroids and minor moons,but nothing new have been launched.Unfourtanetelly,no one had replaced Phil Stooke andwe have shortage of small bodies textures...
When we will have news about for example,a new texture for Hyperion?

Phil is alive and well, posting frequently on another forum that I visit often.

--Chris

Perhaps DanielJ, this is an ideal opportunity for you to put your new-found nmtools skills to good use making new textures for asteroids in Celestia. (Perhaps NASA or JPL have some images of asteroids taken by spacecraft which haven't yet been converted for Celestia use).

Creating textures for irregular bodies is much more difficult than to regular ones.
When I said that Phill Stooke was missing,it is because he was an specialist in modeling this bodies.But apparently he give up and NO ONE replaced him.In the Celestia roadmap,there is no such thing as better textures and models to small moons like Hyperion,Janus,Epimetheus or for asteroids like Ceres,Vesta,Itokawa.This is very sad...
Anyway,the only thing I CAN do is to create normal maps provide someone give me a script to do this.I have no special habilities and even in Photoshop,I am a negation!

danielj,

You can take Ceres out of that list because it is a sphere. Thats one of the reasons it has been elevated to dwarf planet. Ceres is bigger than Enceladus and it is statring to look like they may be made the same way. At this point Ceres is showing signs of having alot of water on it. Think of it as a little Europa stuck out in the asteroid belt. Ceres may not even belong there in the first place in my opion, I thnk it wondered inward from farther out and Jupiter cast it into it present orbit. We wont know for sure until we have a closer look at it and some of the othr asteroid bodies out there. But if they are right, Ceres would be a valuable source of water out there.





Don. Edwards

danielj wrote:OK,he is alive,but WHERE are new textures and models for the minor bodies,like asteroids and minor moons? ... Did he give up in rendering the minor bodies?

chris wrote:

danielj wrote:What happened to Phil Stooke?He was an specialist in modeling small bodies,but I didn??t found anything newer than 2000 textures(actually in his site was updated in 2000).We have several close up of asteroids and minor moons,but nothing new have been launched.Unfourtanetelly,no one had replaced Phil Stooke andwe have shortage of small bodies textures...
When we will have news about for example,a new texture for Hyperion?

Phil is alive and well, posting frequently on another forum that I visit often.

Here's a sample from a photomap of Eros that Phil has been working on.

- Hank