Testing Celestia 1.3.1 pre 9 and Earth bland texture

[danielj]

I installed Celestia 1.3.1 pre 9,and the virtual textures EarthNormal.ctx,EarthNight.ctx and EarthLOI.ctx,and changed the solar system.ssc like this.See below.But teh Earth become a bland black featurless disk.What I did wrong?


"Earth" "Sol"
{

Texture "EarthLOI.ctx"
NightTexture "EarthNight.ctx"

# SpecularTexture "4kEarthSpecular.dds"
Color [ 0.45 0.45 0.6 ]
SpecularColor [ 0.3 0.3 0.35 ]
SpecularPower 10.0
HazeColor [ 1 1 1 ]
HazeDensity 0.3
Radius 6378.140 # equatorial
# Oblateness 0.0034

NormalMap "EarthNormal.ctx"
# BumpMap "earthbump.jpg"
# BumpHeight 4.5

Atmosphere {
Height 60
Lower [ 0.43 0.52 0.65 ]
Upper [ 0.26 0.47 0.84 ]
Sky [ 0.40 0.6 1.0 ]
Sunset [ 1.0 0.6 0.2 ]
# Sunset [ 0.3 1.0 0.5 ]
CloudHeight 12
CloudSpeed 150
CloudMap "earth-clouds.dds"
}

CustomOrbit "vsop87-earth"
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 1.0000
SemiMajorAxis 1.0000
Eccentricity 0.0167
Inclination 0.0001
AscendingNode 348.739
LongOfPericenter 102.947
MeanLongitude 100.464
}

RotationPeriod 23.9344694 # 23.93419
Obliquity -23.45
RotationOffset 280.5 # offset at default epoch J2000

Albedo 0.30
}

[JackHiggins]

Did you install the actual textures themselves (dds files) in the correct folders? Do you have a card that can view dds textures?

Btw, where did you get the Earth LOI and Earthnight ctx's from...?

[ElPelado]

when you define the normalmap, you dont define the bumpheight. as far as i know, normalmaps also need bumpheight...

[JackHiggins]

No it's NormalHeight you need for a normalmap!

[ElPelado]

Jack, its a joke? or are you talking seriously?

[JackHiggins]

No, I was being serious-

My earth ssc segment:

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...
   Radius 6378
   # Oblateness 0.003

   NormalMap "earth_normalmap.dds"
   NormalHeight 4.5

   #BumpMap "earthbump.jpg"
   #BumpHeight 4.5

   Atmosphere {
      Height 60
...

[danielj]

I?ve downloaded from John?s site.Anyway,I would like to know where I put the 1k files EarthNormal.ctx,EarthNight.ctx and EarthLOI.ctx.Maybe could this solve the problem.Or do you have other idea?