Problem with BumpMap

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Problem with BumpMap

Post #1by Cham » 28.01.2004, 05:36

I made a planet with the texture files in the right place (Extras/MyAddon/Textures/MedRes folder). In my custom ssc file, there are those lines :

Texture "pm5.jpg"
BumpMap "pm5bump.jpg"
BumpHeight 2.5

When I launch Celestia 1.3.1, I get a planet with a bad shadow and no bumping at all. Almost all the planet looks like shadowed, except a small part with the shape of a pie. What is happening ? I get this error with some other addons from the web too. For other planets (from some addons), I get a good bumping, so I don't understand what is happening.

I'm using Celestia 1.3.1 on a Macintosh with OS X Panther 10.3.2, 1 Gig ram and the NVidia GeForce 4 MX video card (32 MB of vram).

All the textures are 2048 by 1024, jpeg format.

Please ?
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