Star textures in celestia.cfg

[ElChristou]

...Feast your eyes on this!!

[t00fri]

with all respect, this texture looks like an orange (fruit), but not like a star observed without a filter.

F.

[buggs_moran]

A good beginning Larre.

[Larre]

A good beginning Larre.

Thanks, Buggs!

I needed a little encouragement there...

(I am working on much better textures as well. Just takes time. Just by searching these forums all the time, I've learned quite a lot!!)

Peace, Larre

[Fenerit]

Since there have been a lot of complaints about the appearance of stars, I want to add a new block to celestia.cfg to allow setting the default star textures for stars of various spectral classes. This would also remove some of the hardcoded texture names in stars.cpp, e.g. astar.jpg and browndwarf.jpg.

The new block would look like this:

StarTextures
{
A "astar.jpg"
B "bstar.jpg"
WD "whitedwarf.jpg"
Default " astar.jpg"
L "browndwarf.jpg"
T "browndwarf.jpg"
... etc ...
}

The default texture would be applied to all spectral types not explicitly assigned textures. There's only one white dwarf texture, but the appearance of white dwarfs probably varies strongly based on their temperature. My proposal doesn't address this; I think that white dwarfs should be rendered with a featureless white texture modulated by a color determined by their blackbody spectrum.

--Chris

Would be possible to add also Normalmap and Cloudmap?

For appoximate blackbody spectrum here there is a table:

http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/s ... kbody.html