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Alright, maybe I goofed using the ssc for our solar system to play with, i dont know, but the planets show up but not the textures.

"Tropica" "Peacefulhaven"
{
Texture "Tropica.jpg"
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 6378.140 # equatorial
# Oblateness 0.0034

Atmosphere {
Height 60
Lower [ 0.43 0.52 0.65 ]
Upper [ 0.26 0.47 0.84 ]
Sky [ 0.40 0.6 1.0 ]
Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]
CloudMap "earth-cloud.*"
CloudHeight 50
CloudSpeed 90
}

CustomOrbit "vsop87-venus"
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.6152
SemiMajorAxis 0.7233
Eccentricity 0.0068
Inclination 3.3947
AscendingNode 76.681
LongOfPericenter 131.533
MeanLongitude 181.979
}

RotationPeriod 22.479839
Obliquity 28.78
EquatorAscendingNode 300.22
RotationOffset 280.45

Albedo 0.30
}

that is a copy of the ssc im using

Thanks
JLF

There are many circumstances that could cause a surface texture not to be drawn. Some of them are listed at http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html#6.

Okay, i have moved the textures to the main addon folder, moved them to the main texture folder, checked file names for typos and still no go. I think i must have done something really messed up, all i get is a white ball.

Textures in medres folder?

Textures in medres folder?

Yup, double chedked that this morning

I changed all images to jpg, and bingo, there they were.

Are .gif formats unreadable in celestia?

No, Celestia cannot display GIF.
Only JPEG, PNG and DDS are supported.
In some cases BMP can be used with models, but that format is not officially supported, either.

Sorry.