The New Earth Textures From Space-Graphics

Tips for creating and manipulating planet textures for Celestia.
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Don. Edwards
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Post #41by Don. Edwards » 12.01.2003, 18:51

granthutchison,
Thanks for the feed back. I am aware that the aurora actualy goes around the magnetic poles not the geographic ones. The only image i found of the aurora was black and white so of cousre it had no sense of scale. I did try and make it dip a little over north america. With the info you have posted I will try and modify it as best I can. I might have to resort to drawing it out in Photoshop to get it in the right position. The southern aurora didn't quite turn out as well as I wanted it to. But this was just the first public trail of this idea so its at least a start. Thanks again for the info and I will see what I can do.
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Past texture releases, Hmm let me think about it

Thanks for your understanding.

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Post #42by granthutchison » 12.01.2003, 19:27

There's a plot of the line of the mean auroral oval here
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/brushfire/MAPNP.GIF
However, an image search in Google for "auroral oval" will turn up a variety of pictures that show a considerable variation around this mean, giving you a fair bit of artistic licence :)

Grant

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Post #43by Darkmiss » 13.01.2003, 13:47

Thank you Don.
The texture is great :)
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Post #44by Darkmiss » 18.01.2003, 02:50

Don, will you be releasing a new 4k version of this latest Texture ?
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