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I Just got the SpecularTexture from earth centrial v2.0, and it dident make the watter shiny

here are my settings for earth:

"Earth" "Sol"
{
Texture "earth.dds"
# Texture "earth8k.dds"
NightTexture "earthnight.jpg"

SpecularTexture "8kEarthSpecular.dds"
Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ]
SpecularColor [ 0.5 0.5 0.55 ]
SpecularPower 25.0
HazeColor [ 1 1 1 ]
HazeDensity 0.3
Radius 6378
# Oblateness 0.003

NormalMap "earthbump.jpg"
BumpMap "earthbump.jpg"
BumpHeight 9.0

Atmosphere {
Height 60
Lower [ 0.5 0.5 0.65 ]
Upper [ 0.3 0.3 0.6 ]
Sky [ 0.3 0.6 0.9 ]
CloudHeight 7
CloudSpeed 65
CloudMap "Northern Winter earth clouds.dds"
}

CustomOrbit "vsop87-earth"
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 1.0000
SemiMajorAxis 1.0000
Eccentricity 0.0167
Inclination 0.0001
AscendingNode 348.739
LongOfPericenter 102.947
MeanLongitude 100.464
}

RotationPeriod 23.9344694 # 23.93419
Obliquity -23.45
RotationOffset 280.5 # offset at default epoch J2000

Albedo 0.30
}

Whats wrong?

It helps to include your system specs...

Make sure you have Render path set to at least OpenGL vertex program (press Ctrl + V a few times) otherwise the specularity doesn't show up

I tryed it, dident work.

My system specs are:
AMD Atholon XP 2800+ 1.8ghs
512 MB of ram
Windows XP Home
GeForce FX 5600 (256 MB of vidio ram)

Why are you using a Normal map and a bump map ?
maybe this could be your problem.

NormalMap "earthbump.jpg"
BumpMap "earthbump.jpg"
BumpHeight 9.0

looks as though you dont have a normal map at all.
as they both have the same name.


Also make sure the file name for the spec map matches the spec map name in the ssc file.

O.K, I turned off normal map (what does that do anyway?) and bump hight is set to 9.0 because I cant seem to make my 8k bump map sho up eather
Btw ther is no OpenGL vertex program when I press Ctrl v, all I have is Nvidia Combiners, Basic, And Multitextur!
Still no efect

Could there be sompthing rong with these settings? :

SpecularTexture "8kEarthSpecular.dds"
Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ]
SpecularColor [ 0.5 0.5 0.55 ]
SpecularPower 25.0
HazeColor [ 1 1 1 ]
HazeDensity 0.3
Radius 6378
# Oblateness 0.003

P.S. I am using celestia 1.3.0

Well there is your problem, so now to find the cause.

What vidoe card a drivers are you useing ?

better still post you full machine spec.


A normal map and a bumpmap do exactly the same thing, they are both bump maps.
But of different kinds.
So you either use one or the other.
A bump map is 256 colour grey scale and looks like a black and white shot of the earth.

And a Normal map looks like a deyglow pinky texture.

Just dounloaded the most recent drivers from nvidia (no effect)
Also Got the latest Open GL (Still No Effect )
AND I even tried to reinstall Celestia (Still No Efect )

Here are my spec's:

OS: Windows XP Home
System Manufacturer: Custum Made
Muther Bord Manufacturer: MSI
BIOS Version: 7.00T
Muther Boad Version: MS-6712
Physical Memory: 512 MB
Page File Space: 1.5 GB
Processor: AMD Atholon XP 2800+ 1.8ghs
Vidio Card: GeForce FX 5600 (256 MB of vidio ram)
Vido Processor Speed: 400 MHS

Whats wrong? I just built this new system (My old one was made in 1998, and only had a 166 MHS Processor)

I also got a real normal map (I cant see it in celestia eather It was a 32 mb dds to!)

Normal maps are broken in 1.3.0 final... Get the latest version from here http://celestiaproject.net/celestia/files/cele ... .1pre6.exe it may fix your problem. If you can only go as far as multitexture you won't be able to see spec maps or good bump/normal maps...

Well something is very wrong here. if you have all that system....
And a GforceFX5600 with the 43.45 drivers there relly should not be any problem at all.

give us a rundown of what files you are useing
Full file name, (EG: Earth-Spec.jpg) with File type (DDS, PNG, JPG ?)
then print your earth code again for us so we can see if there is a mismatch in there somwhere.

Aslo Run Celestia and goto the Help pull down menu
and click on the "OpenGL Info"
Then copy all the information there and print it here for us to read also.
This is vital information.

Should look somthing like this....

Also NoOne has asked if you are putting the file you are trying to use in the right Folder yet

The files you are trying to use should be put into the Textures/Medres folder.

Sorry if you already know this, just trying to get to the bottom of your problem.

That fixed it
I re downloaded celestia 1.3.0, and installed it in a new folder, copyed my extras folder, my moddels folder, and my sollersys.scc file to the new celestia folder, then I ran celestia and everything worked. I even have: OpenGL vertex program/Nvidia Combiners now

btw I compaired the new instal with the old install of celestia, and there is no shaders folder in the old celestia folder

was this my problem

Star Lion wrote:btw I compaired the new instal with the old install of celestia, and there is no shaders folder in the old celestia folder

was this my problem

Almost certainly yes