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My latest add-on for celestia is finished!
It is called Beta Hydri and it is a fictional solarsytem with the star Beta Hydri at its center.
Beta Hydri is currently available at my website
http://members.chello.nl/r.sanders20/productions/
or at my creators directory at the celestiamotherlode here
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/rsanders/Beta_Hydri.zip



I have made 6 promotional screenshots wich can be viewed below.













More images can be be viewed in the Beta Hydri preview topic here
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5941
I really like to hear your opinions on this add-on, so feel free to give me some feedback.
Thanks.

ROB SANDERS PRODUCTIONS
http://members.chello.nl/r.sanders20/productions/

Excellent! Planet pictures that just make you want to go WOW!

I'm downloading it!

Michael Kilderry

I would like to know how you did the testerial planet textures.

Beowulf01 wrote:I would like to know how you did the testerial planet textures.

What do you mean by "testerial"?
English is not my native language so plz forgive me.
Please explain so i can explain it to you.
What i can tell you now about my textures is this:

I just used Paintshop Pro and modified existing textures until they looked completely different.
For example: i searched the net for a high resolution texture of the moon, then i loaded it in Paintshop Pro i used some distortion tools like warping and punching to change the appearance of the texture.
Then i changed the colors (applying a old newspaper effect was great) of the textures using Hue and or in combination some effects that came with Paintshop pro.
Somtimes the texture was stil recognisable, then i used the warp brush to make recognisable features unrecognisable.
When the texture is finished i made a bumpmap for it by changing the texture to black and white colors, i used contrast to make things more black or white to change the height of a bumpmap.
Changing this bumpmap to a negative image also created great results.
The result was the little moon on the left in the following screenshot



The main thing is be creative, take a titan cloud texture found at nasa`s celestia, warp it like crazy make it another color and voila you have a gasgiant.
Tell me what you mean by testerial and i can explain it better.
I hoped this helped.