Hi Georg, Thanks for the detailed advice. I should be able to follow all of it since it all makes sense to me. I'm not sure I will be able to make all the adjustments before I take off to the next Nebraska Star Party, but who knows. :-) (July 30th to Aug 6th for me) At that time I plan to make another set of pictures applying what I have already learned. As for the tents, they are hard to stitch because they don't stay still in the wind. :-) Perhaps next time I go, I will catch a less windy day. I could also distort the tent images a bit and make it look more natural. We'll see, but I will get something to you soon that matches your requirements. :-)
Thanks again, Rustin On 07/18/2016 05:52 PM, Georg Zotti wrote: > 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. 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