Just wanted to express growing concern over some of the textures available
for download on the Celestia Motherlode. In my travels there, I noticed
that many, MANY of the textures available for use by our favorite program are
not set up correctly.
In particular, I noticed that three or four textures (Callisto, Europa, etc.)
will have to be rotated by 180 degrees in order for the individual moon
locations to be referenced by a location file so that they are displayed
within Celestia correctly.
I also noted that one Ganymede texture was completely offset by about
(A simple guess here...) 200 pixels even after a correcting rotation had
been performed.
Just thought I'd make certain that newcomers to Celestia are made
aware of this problem. As I mentioned in another post, I have
corrected John Van Vliet's absolutely beautiful Mercury texture so that
its locations line up correctly, but I saw so MANY other textures which
had this problem, that I just wanted to make certain that newbies
were aware of the condition.
If you're ever in doubt about a texture, simply run Celestia using the
suspected moon or planet texture, then check the locations for known
places.
Just FYI.
Thanks, Brain-Dead
