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Coming very soon the long overdue 16K texture update and north summer clouds!



Don. Edwards

Ok here is some clarification as to the origin of this texture. I took the ocean/water layer from the new 32k texture, resized them and put them together so I could replace the ocean layer of my original Realistic Earth 16k texture. I also had to deal with the fact that the new texture has an ice pack around Antarctica while it isn't in the my original 16k. But the outcome seems to work ok at this point. With a slight adjustment to the landmass layer to the color values of the 32k texture I essentially have a new 16k texture that is almost the same as the one that will come from the 32k without allot of the work that still has to be done in the monster 32k texture. This texture still needs just a few more tweaks here and there and it will be perfect or nearly perfect and I can have it ready fairly soon as most of the hard work is already done.
I know its a stop gap method but it should do a good job of fulfilling a few promises broken in the past.
As for the Northern Summer Cloud texture it is finished and has already been converted to .dds format. It is in both 4k.png and 4k.dds. So I plan to release it with the new 16k texture.
Now on to a couple of pictures. These simply compare the 32k textures Antarctic ice field to the 16k's lack of one.



As can be seen the water coloring is the same in both as well as the landmasses. I think that sums everything up nicely.

Don. Edwards

Hi Don
Did you ever sort out what was causing the lines in first 16k texture ?
And did you sort out the problem for these new ones ?

I think I remember you saying somthig about it being in the DDS compression proccess ?

If you are talking about the lines that appeared in England and Africa then no. They are a part of the compression process and I have no way to remove them once the texture gets compressed. I haven't checked the new texture for the alignment problem as of yet but as soon as I get home I will check the working version of the texture and let you know how it looks. At this point the main problem I am seeing with this texture is a slight stretching the water pattern around Antarctica. Other than that it nearly ready to go.

Don. Edwards

Good news!
I just checked the latest .dds build of the 16k texture and found no anomalies along the line that spans the half way part of the texture. Hopefully it will not raise it ugly head in the final version.

Don. Edwards