planets and moons become white balls...

Tips for creating and manipulating planet textures for Celestia.
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hdvr
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planets and moons become white balls...

Post #1by hdvr » 21.01.2003, 12:57

I got some nice texturemaps from http://www.oera.net/How2/TextureMaps.htm and placed them in the medres folder. I changed the appropriate filesnames in solarsys.ssc and started celestia, only to find earth looked like a dull billiardball... What can be wrong? I use a Nvidia TNT2 Pro card with 32 MB and a pentium 3/700 memory is 128Mb and the maps are 2500 x 1200 jpg.
OK, I am a newbie, but I think I did everything right...

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Hans (netherlands)

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Post #2by Ortolan » 21.01.2003, 15:31

Textures must be a power of 2. ie: their dimensions must be 128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192 or 16384 pixels along each side.

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Post #3by hdvr » 21.01.2003, 19:45

Ortolan wrote:Textures must be a power of 2. ie: their dimensions must be 128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192 or 16384 pixels along each side.


Thanks a lot! I'll try that right away!


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