no luck with earth textures / nightlight, spec and etc.
Posted: 29.10.2004, 04:22
Greetings list. Im VERY impressed by this little piece of software, congrats to all the developpers.
I've got pretty good hardware, so I figured I could 'upgrade' Celestia somewhat to enhanced the experiences.
I downloaded the complete VT from http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/earth-vt/, in hope of getting the same effect of the screenshots posted on the website itself.
I downloaded the unshaded ground texture, the normal map, the spec map, the nightlights and finally, the cloud map. I also followed the instructions in each packages, by placing all data in the extras/ folder, except for the cloud map, that I put directly into textures/hires. I also modified solarsys.ssc, to set CloudSpeed to '0'.
When starting Celestia and right-clicking on the Earth, i've got those 4 choices in Alternate Surfaces : Normal, Earth 32k Nightlights+Spec, Earth 32k Normalmap+Nightlights+Spec and Gray earth Normalmap+Specmap.
In any case, coulds dont show up, neither the the nightlights. When zooming in however, i can clearlly see the different levels of details, with a small lag when moving to each inner levels (textures loading in, i suppose).
I've got a ATI Radeon 9600XT, on a P4 2.6 with 700+ MB RAM.
Any pointers ?
Thanks a bunch, I really want this thing going ; )
I've got pretty good hardware, so I figured I could 'upgrade' Celestia somewhat to enhanced the experiences.
I downloaded the complete VT from http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/earth-vt/, in hope of getting the same effect of the screenshots posted on the website itself.
I downloaded the unshaded ground texture, the normal map, the spec map, the nightlights and finally, the cloud map. I also followed the instructions in each packages, by placing all data in the extras/ folder, except for the cloud map, that I put directly into textures/hires. I also modified solarsys.ssc, to set CloudSpeed to '0'.
When starting Celestia and right-clicking on the Earth, i've got those 4 choices in Alternate Surfaces : Normal, Earth 32k Nightlights+Spec, Earth 32k Normalmap+Nightlights+Spec and Gray earth Normalmap+Specmap.
In any case, coulds dont show up, neither the the nightlights. When zooming in however, i can clearlly see the different levels of details, with a small lag when moving to each inner levels (textures loading in, i suppose).
I've got a ATI Radeon 9600XT, on a P4 2.6 with 700+ MB RAM.
Any pointers ?
Thanks a bunch, I really want this thing going ; )
