Planet Textures

[matthew]

You can get a lot of Planet Textures from this Site.

Before you use them you'll probably need to Resize them to 1024x512 Pixels.

[kryton9]

THanks Mathew for the link. I have been trying to create my own textures as it is fun. But always great to have good references. When stuck for an idea start with a real map and then do all sorts of modifications.

One thing Petr has mentioned to me numerous times as I kept making the same mistake over and over, is to keep your texture to the power of 2 and squared. He is keeping tbgl compatible with older graphics cards. The newer cards let you get away with textures that ignore this rule and that is why I was being lazy.

So for example:
64 x 64
128 x 128
256 x 256
512 x 512 Right now for lots of detail, I am finding this as being fine
1024 x 1024
2048 x 2048 I read elsewhere that this is about the max you ever want to go for textures at the moment.

[Michael Hartlef]

Thanks Matthew for the link, this is allways usefull.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

very nice textures, I like Venus

kryton is right, I stick with power of two textures.
1024x512 should be ok too as both dimensions are power of two.


Thanks,
Petr

[kryton9]

Oh man, I thought they had to be square Petr, that is great to know.