Project "Celestia Origin", release dated August 30, 2018
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I think Daphnis should be longer (Dimensions 8.6 × 8.2 × 6.4 km).LukeCEL wrote:Here's my OBJ file of Daphnis, under public domain
There is no point in hoping for Fenerit. Try yourself to make Helene and Telesto. And a big request to make models (including Daphnis) as meticulously as possible. Than better the source, by that better the script handles it.
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Art Blos, I did a bit of digging and found this: shape models of eleven moons of Saturn, including Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Telesto, Calypso, and Helene.
The shape models can be downloaded here at the PDS Asteroid/Dust Archive. The first download contains vertices and points for all the satellite. It's easy enough to convert those to OBJ. Just open it up, remove the first line, add "v" before each vertex, add "f" before each face, and change the extension to ".obj". The shape models have a little bit of "stitching" but that's fine. The second download contains rotation models, which I don't really understand.
The shape models also show something that I hadn't quite caught onto before: the flat inner moons—Pan, Daphnis, and Atlas—are not exactly flat and round, they're stretched. I think that's the effect of Saturn's gravity.
The shape models can be downloaded here at the PDS Asteroid/Dust Archive. The first download contains vertices and points for all the satellite. It's easy enough to convert those to OBJ. Just open it up, remove the first line, add "v" before each vertex, add "f" before each face, and change the extension to ".obj". The shape models have a little bit of "stitching" but that's fine. The second download contains rotation models, which I don't really understand.
The shape models also show something that I hadn't quite caught onto before: the flat inner moons—Pan, Daphnis, and Atlas—are not exactly flat and round, they're stretched. I think that's the effect of Saturn's gravity.
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For the normal texture for Mercury, the highest resolution USGS map of Mercury that I have.
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This is one of the best and long-awaited news!LukeCEL wrote:I did a bit of digging and found this


Our textures of Mercury do not need to be updated yet. At least for now.Anthony_B_Russo10 wrote:For the normal texture for Mercury, the highest resolution USGS map of Mercury that I have.
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SpaceFanatic64 wrote:Luke, I'm curious as to how the models look. Can you send any preview pictures?
They look like this:
Images on the left side are the models, images on the right side are photos, courtesy of NASA and public domain. From top to bottom: Calypso, Helene, Pan, and Telesto. I didn't bother doing Atlas and Daphnis but rest assured, they look pretty similar to the photos.
What's weird is that when I converted the .tab files to .obj, the files could clearly be viewed on Preview, but couldn't be opened by anything else, like Blender. I really hope that's a problem with my conversion, and not a problem with the data itself...
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