Pictures from Celestia

[john71]

Venus surface reconstructed and enhanced:

Venus-without-clouds-1.png

Venus-without-clouds-2.png

Added after 1 hour 3 minutes:
Venus surface at 64k:

Venus-without-clouds-3.png

[john71]

128k Venus textures, not a lovely planet:

Venus-without-clouds128k-4.png

Venus-without-clouds128k-5.png

Venus-without-clouds128k-6.png

Venus-without-clouds128k-7.png

Added after 2 hours 46 minutes:
Venus full scale 128k texture:

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Added after 37 minutes 52 seconds:
Whoa! I didn't expect to find THESE:

Venus128-7.png

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[john71]

Corrected color and normal map:

Venus-128k-new-1.png

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[john71]

I think this is the most "realistic" texture we can get from the available data:

Venus-128k-new-6.png

Venus-128k-new-7.png

Venus-128k-new-8.png

[bh]

Great work John... stunning!

[john71]

Thank you!

Added after 7 hours 59 minutes:
Mercury 64k texture:

Mercury-64k-1.png

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[bh]

I do most of my flying closer to home these days.

Lol!

[john71]

I'm still on Mercury lol!

128k texture:

Mercury-128k-5.png

Mercury-128k-6.png

Mercury-128k-7.png

[Gurren Lagann]

That looks really awesome, John! Any chance of a 16k/32k texture/VT of Phobos and Deimos, as well as a 64k texture/VT of Bennu?

[john71]

I think virtual textures are not working currently with mesh moons.

8k is the best I can do right now:

Deimos8k-1.png

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[john71]

Final version, 128k Mercury texture with 16k normal map:

Mercury-128k-8normal.png

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Mercury-128k-10normal.png

Mercury-128k-11normal.png

[john71]

Titan 32k texture:

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Added after 5 hours 16 minutes:
Ganymede 32k texture (source material is not very good):

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[john71]

Maximum texture enhancement at 32k:

Ganymede-32k-6.png

Added after 59 minutes 18 seconds:
Enhanced Titan texture:

Titan-32k-5.png

Titan-32k-6.png

Titan-32k-7.png

[john71]

Enhanced 64k Earth clouds:

32k:

Earth clouds 32k-1.png

Enhanced and upscaled 64k:

Earth clouds 64k-2.png

32k:

Earth clouds 32k-3.png

64k:

Earth clouds 64k-3.png

ISS with 64k clouds and 128k surface texture:

Earth clouds 64k-4.png

Earth clouds 64k-5.png

Added after 1 hour 47 minutes:
Rapidly approaching full photorealism:

Earth clouds 64k-6.png

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

Soon you will have a Google Earth level Earth in Celestia.

[john71]

128k upscaled and enhanced cloud texture:

128k-Earth cloud-2.png

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128k-Earth cloud-1.png

128k-Earth cloud-4.png

[Georgi]

Did your memory usage increase after rising the scale to 128K and if yes, by how much?

PS: Amazing textures as always!

[john71]

Thanks. 64 bit Celestia has no RAM problems in my experience. Only the loading time can increase, after that it is flawless.

Added after 1 hour 29 minutes:
Comparing real satellite clouds (white dots) with 128k alpha layer clouds:

real-128k clouds comparison-1.png

real-128k clouds comparison-2.png

[mario.schinder]

That is unbelievable how it improved, I used to play around 6 or 7 years ago, and I was nice but now... wow... really impress

[john71]

mario.schinder: unfortunately this 128k Earth add-on is 20GB...

128k clouds, final version:

clouds 128k-final-1.png

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