Night Textures for Asteroids...

[barbarossa2]

I have successfully night textured the moon by modifying the solarsys data file and providing the image file edited in PhotoShop. However, after I put several small asteroids (moons...phobos and deimos) in orbit around it and wanted to night texture them using the same methods used on the moon, I gave it a try but no dice. The night side remains pitch black on the mesh object asteroids.

Can I "NightTexture" mesh objects? I hope so.



Do the graphics files for night textures have any naming restrictions?

[selden]

Sorry, but no. Night textures do not work on Mesh objects.

That and similar limitations are described on the Web page
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/textures.html