[Solved] Jupiter and other textures missing?

[Patrick Snyder]

I absolutely love Celestia. I've only used it for a short time but seeing the planets, asteroids, etc and their orbits play out is absolutely amazing. I'm a teacher and hoping to use it in the classroom.

But I have a question.
Are the solar system textures supposed to be included? I have beautiful textures for Earth, Saturn, the Sun and some moons, but when it comes to Jupiter, Mercury, the Earth's moon and many other planets there is no texture. Mars is slightly redish and Neptune is slightly bluish =P But there are no textures.

During the demo it points out a crater on Mimas, a moon of Saturn, but there's no texture to show it! =P
It's just a plain grey sphere getting light from the sun.

I'm running ubuntu 8.10.
This is the case on both Gnome and GLUT versions.

Are there supposed to be textures I'm missing? Is there some place I can download textures? Is it my machine? =/
Thanks in advance (^_^)

edit: [Solved]

[Reiko]

They should be there. You might need to update your graphics drivers.

[Patrick Snyder]

Thanks for the quick response! (^_^)

I tried a less recent driver but had the same result.
Can you tell me the name of the texture for Jupiter or Earth's moon? Or another?
I'm looking in my textures folder and this is all I have:

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patrick@patrick-laptop:/usr/share/celestia/textures/lores$ ls
astar.jpg         enceladus.jpg        exo-class5night.jpg  venus.jpg
asteroid.jpg      exo-class1.jpg       extrasolar-lok.jpg   venuslike.jpg
browndwarf.jpg    exo-class2.jpg       gstar.jpg            venuslikenight.jpg
bstar.jpg         exo-class3.jpg       mstar.jpg            venussurface.jpg
earth-clouds.png  exo-class4.jpg       neptune-rings.png
earthnight.jpg    exo-class4night.jpg  saturn.jpg
earth.png         exo-class5.jpg       saturn-rings.png

patrick@patrick-laptop:/usr/share/celestia/textures/lores$ cd ../medres
patrick@patrick-laptop:/usr/share/celestia/textures/medres$ ls

astar.jpg         enceladus.jpg        exo-class5night.jpg  saturn.jpg
asteroid.jpg      exo-class1.jpg       gstar.jpg            venus.jpg
browndwarf.jpg    exo-class2.jpg       iss-cap1.jpg         venuslike.jpg
bstar.jpg         exo-class3.jpg       iss-mc1.jpg          venuslikenight.jpg
earth-clouds.png  exo-class4.jpg       iss-mc31.jpg         venussurface.jpg
earthnight.jpg    exo-class4night.jpg  iss-sol1.jpg
earth.png         exo-class5.jpg       mstar.jpg
patrick@patrick-laptop:/usr/share/celestia/textures/medres$

[t00fri]

you're missing LOTS of textures. But you didn't tell us which version of Celestia you were using!

Here is e.g. the content of the medres folder in the latest (SVN) version:

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amalthea.jpg        ariel.jpg            astar.jpg           asteroid.jpg
browndwarf.jpg      bstar.jpg            callisto.jpg        charon-lok-spec.jpg
charon-lok.jpg      deimos.jpg           dione.jpg           earth-clouds.png
earth.png           earthnight.jpg       enceladus.jpg       epimetheus-lok.jpg
epimetheus.jpg      eros.jpg             europa.jpg          exo-class1.jpg
exo-class2.jpg      exo-class3.jpg       exo-class4.jpg      exo-class4night.jpg
exo-class5.jpg      exo-class5night.jpg  ganymede.jpg        gaspramosaic.jpg
gstar.jpg           hyperion-lok.jpg     hyperion.jpg        iapetus.jpg
idamosaic.jpg       io.jpg               iss-cap1.jpg        iss-mc1.jpg
iss-mc31.jpg        iss-sol1.jpg         janus.jpg           jupiter.jpg
mars.jpg            marsbump.jpg         mercury.jpg         mimas.jpg
miranda.jpg         moon.jpg             moonbump.jpg        mstar.jpg
neptune.jpg         oberon.jpg           phobos.jpg          phoebe.jpg
pluto-lok-spec.jpg  pluto-lok.jpg        prometheus.jpg      proteus.jpg
rhea.jpg            saturn.jpg           tethys.jpg          titan-clouds.jpg
titan.jpg           titania.jpg          triton.jpg          umbriel.jpg
venus.jpg           venuslike.jpg        venuslikenight.jpg  venussurface.jpg


You see, of course jupiter is also there.

Fridger

[selden]

You can download a generic Linux version of Celestia v1.5.1 from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=21302
Among other things, it includes a full set of lores and medres planetary surface textures.

It sounds like the version that you downloaded for Ubuntu had a lot of stuff left out.
Be sure to complain loudly about that to the site where you got it.

[Patrick Snyder]

Thank you for your replies!

I had originally downloaded it from ubuntu's Add/Remove menu.
I went into Synaptic Package Manager and found that I had:
celestia-common
celestia-gnome

but I didn't have:
celestia-common-nonfree
(This package contains the data files for Celestia that have no DFSG
compatible license or an unclear license.)

I downloaded that, and now all of the textures are in place!
Thank you everyone for your help! (^_^)/

[ajtribick]

Ah. So it appears the Ubuntu package maintainers decided to break Celestia in Intrepid. Supplying users with a partial install is stupid - if they have problems with the licenses they should have moved the entire package to nonfree.