Pictures from Celestia

[Gurren Lagann]

Pisces Dwarf stars, with data from the Local Cosmology from Isolated Dwarfs (LCID) project.

From the outside.

From somewhere in the dense regions.

[john71]

Jupiter with new texture (even more detail):

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Jupiter 2021 07-5.png

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Lake Garda imported from Google using BlenderGIS:

https://github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS/wiki

Lake Garda-1.png

Lake Garda-2.png

Lake Garda-3.png

[trappistplanets]

Jupiter with new texture (even more detail):

is there any juno data in there?
juno has some of the most detailed images of jupiter (and ganymede)

[john71]

is there any juno data in there?

I used this merged texture:

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/merged-cassini-and-juno

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City of Rome from BlenderGIS:

City of Rome - 1.png

City of Rome - 2.png

[john71]

Europa with specular ice effect:

Europa-ice-1.png

Europa-ice-2.png

Europa-ice-3.png

Europa-ice-4.png

[Eric Nelson]

I used this merged texture:

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/merged-cassini-and-juno

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City of Rome from BlenderGIS:

This should be considered as a release in the future, though it needs to work on Earth with its oblateness used.

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Jupiter with new texture (even more detail):

Should definitely be considered a future update, though hopefully the resolution's good.
Celestia Origin uses an 8K Jupiter texture.

[john71]

This should be considered as a release in the future

I have two problems considering the release of my add-ons:

1.) they are getting better every month, yes, the same ones

2.) I'm lazy to check the legal status of the textures (releasing or distributing them is NOT personal use).



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By the way the Jupiter texture is 32k, upscaling is the main trick to get better quality textures.

[Eric Nelson]

I just learned the best textures are textures that can never be used.

[john71]

I just learned the best textures are textures that can never be used.

The situation is not that tragic, but can be annoying.

This is the copyright status of the Jupiter texture:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. For uses not allowed by that license, contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder.

NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Southwest Research Institute / Malin Space Science Systems / Italian Space Agency (ASI) / Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) / JIRAM / Björn Jónsson

I mean, who has the time for this????

[Eric Nelson]

Well these textures should've had the copyright issues mentioned ahead of time.

[john71]

Why, if a texture can't be distributed, it can't be shown? It doesn't work like that. A new picture is another piece of "art", which is different from the base texture. The problem is with the distribution of that (edited) base texture.

[Eric Nelson]

Yes and it would be better to just note everyone about the copyright status in the post about the textures in the first place.

[john71]

I used this merged texture:

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/merged-cassini-and-juno

I named the source.

[SevenSpheres]

This is the copyright status of the Jupiter texture:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. For uses not allowed by that license, contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder.

NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Southwest Research Institute / Malin Space Science Systems / Italian Space Agency (ASI) / Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) / JIRAM / Björn Jónsson

I mean, who has the time for this????

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

The license allows you to redistribute the texture as long as you give credit to the original author.

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I just learned the best textures are textures that can never be used.

No one said that, and as said above it's not true.

Well these textures should've had the copyright issues mentioned ahead of time.

Yes and it would be better to just note everyone about the copyright status in the post about the textures in the first place.

There wasn't a download link for the texture or anything, just an image of it, and he did provide the link to the original source.

[john71]

The license allows you to redistribute the texture as long as you give credit to the original author.

OK, but as I said, I don't have the time to sort it out with every layer and every piece of image I used.

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I think most NASA images are free, but you have to check this too. I don't have time for this right now.

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And my main reason is this:

I have two problems considering the release of my add-ons:

1.) they are getting better every month, yes, the same ones

[Eric Nelson]

Of course, credit is what's needed, and it makes more than perfect sense.
It's logical.

[trappistplanets]

Of course, credit is what's needed, and it makes more than perfect sense.

200% true
credit is always needed so a artist does not think you just stole there work

[Eric Nelson]

For sure.

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CZ Hydrae
Using nessun's RSG addon https://celestia.space/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20398 for realism.
CZ Hydrae, an M-type red supergiant located in the constellation Hydrus.
It's located 560 ly from Sol and estimated to be 986 x Sol's radius and is one of the coolest stars known to man, with a surface temperature of only 2000K.

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HV 986
HV 986, an M4I-b red supergiant in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Its radius is currently estimated to be 1010 x Sol's or 1% above 1000 solar radii.

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HD 167861
HD 167861, an M1 red supergiant 2.7261 kpc from Sol, currently estimated at 1016 x Sol's radius.

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AS Cephei
AS Cephei, an M3I-b red supergiant 3.0656 kpc from Sol in the constellation Cepheus.
Its radius is currently estimated to be 1026 x Sol's.

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V358 Cassiopeiae
V358 Cassiopeiae, an M3I-a0 red hypergiant 3.659 kpc from Sol in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Despite its hypergiant status, it's only 1043 x Sol's radius based on current estimates, making it the second largest known member of Cassiopeia.

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IRAS 04509-6922
IRAS 04509-6922, an M red supergiant in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
It's estimated to be 1360 x Sol's radius and is located 51.643 kpc from Sol.

[trappistplanets]

Europa with specular ice effect:

how did you know what would be reflective on europa's surface, and what bump map are you using??

[john71]

how did you know what would be reflective on europa's surface, and what bump map are you using??

NASA base texture -> Gimp -> upscale to 16k -> G'MIC QT effects -> v001 Filters Generic Normal map -> v002 Colors Treshold -> specular map.