Default Star Texture

[Tech Sgt. Chen]

I made a star texture to replace the default texture rendered by Celestia. This one is devoid of color and will take on the hue of it's particular Spectral Class. It has better (I think) sunspots and even displays granulation at close-ups. It loads very quickly on my computer (G-force 5200 256MB DDR 8X AGP) and looks a lot better than the current default texture. This was done mainly to accommodate anyone (like me) who has difficulty manipulating .stc/.ssc files. All you have to do is replace the "astar" texture in the medres folder with this one.
I've included some pictures for comparison in some typical spectral classes.

A-Star:


B-Star:


G-Star:


M-Star:


I hope this is useful for somebody. I'll be posting this on my website very soon for downloading.

[gradius_fanatic]

man, that looks much better than the default I think