Hello Rustin! Thanks for sharing this set. I like well-aligned panos!
Hints: The 16k landscape is too large for most users. landscapes larger than 4k should be made as tiled "old_style" landscape. Crop away the sky and split to 4096 or better 2048x2048, and make the ground&logo in high quality. You can save about 50% of texture space: Crop the landscape at 5.25 degrees, and define maptex_top=5.25. For perfect compatibility (some hardware requires 2^n textures), stretch to e.g. 4096x1024 pixels. The slight distortion will not be visible. The same goes for the light layer, here you can even define maptex_illum_top and maptex_illum_bottom. With just the light on the tower, this can be reduced to a 8192x64 strip or so! In case of an old_style set, just define the one tile with the red dot on it. There is a bad stitching error on the tent in the foreground. Maybe you can fix that also? Kind regards, Georg Am 18.07.2016 20:51, schrieb Rustin L Haase: > Hi! > > I'm a regular attendee of the annual Nebraska Star Party, an annual > gathering of astronomy fans at Merritt Reservoir, a state park near > Valentine Nebraska (USA). We get a couple hundred attendees during the > week-long event. It is fantastically dark there at night. > > http://www.nebraskastarparty.org/ > > I'm also a big fan of Stellarium and wanted to make a landscape for the > event. Landscapes are cool, but become useful too when combined with > Stellarium telescope control for "goto" scopes. > > If you were to look at this address, you would find nine files. > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5pfwoufy0QXaWtCTzV0czdSRHM > > > The most interesting ones do NOT have "-GE" at the end of the file > name. They are Google Earth generated landscapes that I used as a > scaffolding to build the "real" landscape. They are still pretty cool > and I decided to make full landscapes of them but with not strong > desire > to push them. > > The other four files are what should be considered. : > > NSP-2015-02K.zip – 2.6 MB > > NSP-2015-04K.zip – 10.0 MB > NSP-2015-08K.zip – 37.7 MB > NSP-2015-16K.zip – 130.1 MB > > I made the HUGE landscape 16384x8192 (16K) and then scaled it down to > make the smaller ones. The largest file shows wicked amounts of ground > and horizon detail. It is great when you've got a powerful graphics > card, but the smaller ones are more practical. The NSP-2015-08K.zip – > 37.7 MB one seems to be appropriate for most systems, but I still like > the idea of making the smaller ones too since we aren't running > Stellarium for the purpose of looking at the ground. :-) > > if the editor of the Landscapes collection at > http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Landscapes wants to add > this/these files to it please feel free to do so. I created a 200x114 > pixel as requested. > > NebraskaStarParty2015.jpg > > Anyone, please feel free to contact me about this landscape if you have > anything to express. > > Enjoy! > > Rustin L. Haase (aka Foxpup) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and > traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and > protocols are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for > NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity > planning > reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list > Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
