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Howdy All,
Has this been discovered already? Are the scientists here keeping quiet? Go to http://moon.google.com/ and zoom in as close as possible (to penetrate the surface dust) and witness the amazing truth..(which some of us knew all along)
Z

OK, I don't use this much, even ever....ROFL

My greatest wish has been answered!

ziggy wrote:Howdy All,
Has this been discovered already? Are the scientists here keeping quiet? Go to http://moon.google.com/ and zoom in as close as possible (to penetrate the surface dust) and witness the amazing truth..(which some of us knew all along)
Z

But Ziggy,

everyone uses the same Clementine moon data there are NO others. Neither for Google nor for Celestia!

Here is an old thread by Praesepe on the highest resolution Moon data available (16k), that I also use since long for my own moon texture:

http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic ... 84&start=0

See also my recent Moon thread, notably the bumpmapped images towards the end:
http://www.celestiaproject.net/~t00fri/images/dalembert.jpg
http://www.celestiaproject.net/~t00fri/images/Schroedinger.jpg
http://www.celestiaproject.net/~t00fri/images/Brianchon.jpg

I think these images are far better than what you can see in Google...

http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8561

Bye Fridger

I don't know... Google *must* have some sort of source we don't know about considering the high resolution images that it presents at the highest magnification! What a discovery! Now I want to go to the Moon more than ever!

But only if I can bring crackers....

...John...

"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its cheese in."
- The Mice
Sorry, but someone had to do it...

Nicely done Chuft

Obscure reference...A Grand Day Out

Wallace wrote:'That's it Gromit...che..eeese. We'll go somewhere where there's cheese....Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese...

Linked to http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/fla/wg.html

Ha! As I suspected...you are in denial Fridger.
Bye Z

Fridger:

What moon normal or bump map do you use with your 16k VT textures?

Frank

fsgregs wrote:Fridger:

What moon normal or bump map do you use with your 16k VT textures?

Frank

I don't use a 16k (VT) moon texture anymore, since that is not any good.

My actual moon texture is 8k (not requiring any VT's with my card) and the level map is a larger version (4K) of the the one I derived from true Clementine/USGS topography data. I submitted 2k and 1k versions of it to CVS recently.


Bye Fridger