Higher resolution Textures for Famous / Povray planets

[parazaine]

Firstly, i would like to commend the Author's (and contributors) of 'Famous Planets' and 'Povray Planets'

This project was primarily a personal one to revamp (produce higher resolution versions) of the original famous planets textures. I discovered during this process that the task I had set myself was going to be much more difficult than i originally anticipated.

The result will not be to everyone's taste, the new resolution is 8k by 4k (forgot I cube-mapped them....cube maps are 2k per side) but due to the game engine they still do not look perfect at very close range (i.e. near stations) but ALL planetary textures in Oolite suffer from the same problem....the higher resolution mitigates this to some extent. They are all Cube mapped to take advantage of this new feature in Oolite 1.77

Very low-end computers are going to struggle to display these textures.

These textures are named in accordance with 'Famous Planets' BUT can easily be re-named to fit into 'Povray Planets' with the famous planets name, eg Lave.png being replaced by gal1-Lave.png.

They are split into Gal1 and Gal2 downloads so re-naming should be fairly straightforward.
As with all texture replacements, be sure to back up the original textures somewhere before overwriting them.

Here is a link to a slideshow showing a selection of about 16 of them

http://s877.photobucket.com/user/paraza ... %20Planets

and now the download links

galaxy 1 Famous Planets Textures https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwOHlOv ... sp=sharing

galaxy 2 Famous Planets Textures https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwOHlOv ... sp=sharing

[JazHaz]

Congratulations on the release.

[Diziet Sma]

Those do look pretty gorgeous.. well done!

[pagroove]

Congrats on getting it up.

I did fly a while with your set and it is very nice. It has IMO a bit different character from the original FP set. I like some from the original set better. But as I've said I combine the best textures of the two sets. . I find Lave especially good.

[parazaine]

Thank you for the kind comments....like i said, they won't be to everyone's taste and they are done in a different style.

I briefly contemplated doing the same process with all the rest of the planets in Povray planets and then realized just how crazy that would be

[submersible]

I briefly contemplated doing the same process with all the rest of the planets in Povray planets and then realized just how crazy that would be

Considering they're machine generated - perhaps yes. It would be a mighty cpu hog but those textures could be rendered larger.

[parazaine]

I briefly contemplated doing the same process with all the rest of the planets in Povray planets and then realized just how crazy that would be

Considering they're machine generated - perhaps yes. It would be a mighty cpu hog but those textures could be rendered larger.

I worked out i could do them at about 1k per side cube-mapped at about 10meg per planet....that's about 2 gigs per galaxy

The thing that put me off was doing 2000 planetary textures by hand and not procedurally, although i did start

[Duggan]

These are very eye catching and certainly brighten up my game.

They must have taken quiet some time and patience to produce, Thank you

As far as I can See there are 50 textures for Galaxy 1 and 35 Textures for Galaxy 2 ...85 total. And with a little patience and some renaming they can be spread out across the Eight