Pictures from Celestia

[MrSpace43]

One of my own Saturnian-like planets named Fidon, as seen from Torkala, one of its moons:

[BlueTheCrewmate]

Makemake-Haua.png
Makemake and MK 2

Can you supply an addon for MK2?

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

Yuki, Kino, and Douji

[bh]

Hi all

Quick Earth view

Texture is NASA Blue Marble September map adjusted to 16k DDS

Clouds are NASA Fair-Clouds-8k, I applied a drop shadow to get the 3D effect. And they are moving.

Tracking satellite in real time.. very relaxing!

[bh]

Two views of Jupiter following Juno...

Jupiter map is from

https://www.planetary.org/space-images/merged-cassini-and-juno

Adjusted to 16k DDS, still a work in progress... enhanced colour to my personal taste ( I did look at the Juno gallery!)

[john71]

Very nice bh! Thanks for the texture link! I made a fictional gas giant out of it.

gas giant 1.png

gas giant 2.png

[bh]

Hey! That's super!

Bob

[john71]

Help! How can I scale normal map heights? This picture down below has a normal map in it but the shadows are unreal in my opinion. BumpMap and BumpHeight are not working, only NormalMap...

gas giant normal map 3.png

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

Bump height is set in the objects SSC file.

[john71]

Yes, but it's not working. If I use BumpMap, there are no shadows.

[Goofy]

Hi bh, your modified NASA Fair-Clouds-8k are very nice.
Can you make them available, please?
Are there in higher resolution, 16k or 32k, to be converted in VT format?
Thanks a lot, appreciated.

Goofy

[john71]

I had to use Gimp to create a new normal map to reduce height. I also reduced the noise level of the texture.

gas giant 4.png

gas giant 5.png

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

Hale-bop type comet, Alina

[john71]

Mars images created from the very old Viking data:

Mars-5.png

Mars-4.png

Mars-3.png

Mars-1.png

Added after 2 hours 24 minutes:
Enhanced with normal map:

Mars-8.png

Mars-7.png

Mars-6.png

[john71]

Upscaled and enhanced 32k Mars texture from Viking data (ctx 3 levels):

Mars32k-6.png

Mars32k-5.png

Mars32k-4.png

Mars32k-3.png

Mars32k-2.png

Mars32k-1.png

[john71]

I started to use real Martian elevation data to perfect the normal map. There are clouds now:

Marsrealnormal-13.png

Marsrealnormal-12.png

Marsrealnormal-11.png

Marsrealnormal-10.png

Marsrealnormal-7.png

Added after 3 hours 20 minutes:
32k Moon texture (boring, I know):

Moon32k-4.png

Moon32k-3.png

Moon32k-2.png

Moon32k-1.png

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

The moon is still interesting though, just not as much as some other bodies.

[bh]

Mars 16k DDS...

Not sure where I got the original map, I made it back in 2005!

[john71]

Very nice! I colored and enhanced the black and white Viking data to create a 64k map. It can provide details from 30 km.

Mars64-5.png

Mars64-4.png

Mars64-3.png

Mars64-2.png

Mars64-1.png

[john71]

And to demonstrate how GOOD Celestia is, here is the same spot at Google Earth-Mars (screenshot is used under fair use rules, the public data is from state agencies):

Googler Earth Mars.png

Added after 5 minutes 51 seconds:
A 128k Celestia Mars map would be at the same level with Google Earth-Mars, but the resolution is comparable even now.