High Details ? :(

recon · Post #1by **recon** » 01.06.2005, 00:41

Hello,

I recently downloaded Celestia. It is shown in the gallery that you can see planets surface, ( earth for example: see pic with space shuttle ) very well and detailed. Though when i try zooming nothing happens, i just zoom into PIXELS lol. Can you please tell me how to ''activate'' high textures and to zoom into planets to see really well....FLORIDA for example, as it is shown in the gallery?

That would be nice.

Thank you

Post #2by **ElChristou** » 01.06.2005, 02:46

Hello,

You must download the Highres textures (Called "VT" for Virtual Textures) from the Motherlode... (http://celestiamotherlode.net/).

Try a search in the forum to learn more about this topic.

Bye

recon · Post #3by **recon** » 01.06.2005, 12:01

Hmmm.... lol, i have to download all theese one by one? :roll:

Post #4by **ElChristou** » 01.06.2005, 15:52

recon wrote:Hmmm.... lol, i have to download all theese one by one?

Hmmm.... Yes... :wink:

Try the biggest first...
Don't forget that some people have more than 6go of addons in their HD...
With an average of 2-3go you will have the principal onces...

Post #5by **t00fri** » 01.06.2005, 16:35

recon wrote:Hmmm.... lol, i have to download all theese one by one?

Well an easy back-of-the enveloppe estimate should tell you...

The resolution of the hires earth maps is < 1km/pixel. Did you seriously think you can get all that tremendously detailed information about little rivers and hills etc. just by hitting some ZOOM key?? Out of an "empty" computer so to speak?? If you like a little math homework you can easily estimate the required texture size that will give 1km/pixel resolution on Earth. I suppose you know how big the Earth is about...you will be surprised! Besides the main texture, we overlay nightlight textures, bump/normal maps for 3d rendering, clouds and specular textures in addition...

Bye Fridger

Jeam Tag · Post #6by **Jeam Tag** » 01.06.2005, 17:45

t00fri wrote:
recon wrote:Hmmm.... lol, i have to download all theese one by one?
Well an easy back-of-the enveloppe estimate should tell you...
The resolution of the hires earth maps is < 1km/pixel. Did you seriously think you can get all that tremendously detailed information about little rivers and hills etc. just by hitting some ZOOM key??

'bien vu' Fridger, hmmm, i'm curious to know the size of the entire HiRes tiles from the WorldWind sim by NASA:-) How many terabytes we would have to download for a similar tiling in Celestia?! Jeam