Yea, the hills are interesting. They are basicly ancient dunes of sand
covered with a thin layer of grass. Add in a high water table
(sometimes above ground) and you get this setting. Also the occasional
small cactus, prairie flower, rattle snake, and coyote and you've got
it. The people who live there wouldn't want to be anywhere else which
sort of makes sense because those who would want to be elsewhere would
leave. :-) Its beautiful to me. I feel penned in by places where I
can't see the horizon, and the darkness of the night sky is amazing
here. This place feels like home to me. I wish I could live closer to
it. Its a 6 hour drive for me and its still in the same state of
Nebraska. :-)
On 07/19/2016 03:02 AM, Johan Meuris wrote:
Nice landscape, thanks Rustin! Interesting hills in Nebraska.
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On 19 July 2016 at 01:21, Rustin L Haase <rus...@foxpup.com
<mailto:rus...@foxpup.com>> wrote:
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)
>>
>>
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