Orbiter beta texture issues

[martins]

Since the new texture format, including high-resolution coverage and elevation support, is a major segment of the 2015 beta, it may be a good idea to have a dedicated thread to discuss planet-texture related problems.

I've spruced up the download page at http://mirror.orbiter-radio.co.uk/orbiter/assets/orbiter_texturepacks.html a bit. Let me know if anything is unclear or could be designed better.

 

[blixel]

Let me know if anything is unclear or could be designed better.

I don't see a link for Earth_Cloud.zip on the Earth Map tiles page.

 

[martins]

It is actually at http://www.alteaaerospace.com/users/martins217/earth.html (when you click on "Earth" on the menu bar).

 

[blixel]

It is actually at http://www.alteaaerospace.com/users/martins217/earth.html (when you click on "Earth" on the menu bar).

Ah... I see. I didn't notice that Earth / Moon / Mars were also clickable.

 

[NextBigLeap]

Are the earth high res updated?

 

[llarian]

Is torrent delivery available?

 

[Marg]

South America has been processed
I hope to see Northern Europe in high res... (Finland, Estonia, Latvia). It's just a couple of tiles.
Every other heavily populated areas are included, but not Scandinavia or Baltic states...
Beginning to realize how far to the north I live.

 

[Ripley]

Are the earth high res updated?

Martin wrote

The complete texture pack (Earth.7z) has been regenerated to incorporate all changes.

Is torrent delivery available?

+1
I'd also love to see it available again.

 

[mariostivala]

New Earth Hi-res dimensions

I downloaded the latest textures from the site http://www.alteaaerospace.com/users/martins217/earthtex.html. The size of the zipped files are different, particularly Earth.7z.003 is about 100Mb smaller than the others. It's correct or do I have to download it again?

 

[Lucy]

Is torrent delivery available?

Working on it. Transfer of the updated files from Altea to my server has been very slow.

 

[martins]

I downloaded the latest textures from the site http://www.alteaaerospace.com/users/martins217/earthtex.html. The size of the zipped files are different, particularly Earth.7z.003 is about 100Mb smaller than the others. It's correct or do I have to download it again?

Sorry, I'm afraid you will have to try again. The sizes and checksums should be as listed on the web page.

 

[mariostivala]

Ok for Earth Hi res textures dimensions

I downloaded again Earth.7z.003; it has the same dimensions of others files. Only Earth.7z.006 is 1,2 Gb, as declared. Thanks to all! A good new year!!

 

[Wolf]

Just downloaded Earth.7z.001 (file shows 4GB) but I cannot unzip the file. I am using 7Zip as recommended and I get an "uknown error" messege...
I re-downloaded it but experiencing the same problem...

 

[DaveS]

Just downloaded Earth.7z.001 (file shows 4GB) but I cannot unzip the file. I am using 7Zip as recommended and I get an "uknown error" messege...
I re-downloaded it but experiencing the same problem...

You need the other parts. It's a split multi-part archive.

 

[jroly]

Earth is about 20+GB to download, lucky I am still using the textures from the previous Beta from April + the recent overwrite so I didn't have to download a lot again.

 

[fort]

Earth is about 20+GB to download, lucky I am still using the textures from the previous Beta from April + the recent overwrite so I didn't have to download a lot again.

But : the April and the December textures - all of those of the altea site - thus also including actually areas already present in April are different.

Those of April was accompanied by a LoEarth.zip a file ( 140 mb) - of April - which contain levels from 1 to 9, the high resolution textures of April contain levels from 10 and 13 ( and the Canaveral of April - 10_08 - levels from 10 to 18 ) for its area .

Those of December comes with a LoEarth.zip a file ( 500 MB ) containing levels from 1 to 10, high resolution textures of December - including areas already present in April - containing levels from 11 to 13 ( and Canaveral of December levels from 11 to 19).

The textures added in December , mainly the South America, contain levels 11 to 13 for the area they cover.

 

[Wolf]

You need the other parts. It's a split multi-part archive.

Ok, thank you Dave.

 

[JMW]

These textures are SOMETHING ELSE!
The "water feature" really makes a big difference to the feel of the area...:camera:
Didn't realise how "wet" it is before.. (Cape)

THANK YOU Doctor !! Keep up your beautiful work please.

 

[Abloheet]

Well, how to start making my own high res tiles and elevations?
Where can I download their data from?
First, I would like to incorporate the highres surface tiles for other bases on Earth into the highres textures. I would like to know, how do I go about doing it?

 

[jroly]

HI Abloheet,

I have been trying to work that out as well. I used tileedit.exe located in 'orbiter_beta\Utils' and you will need Matlab MCR http://au.mathworks.com/products/compiler/mcr/ ver R2012a (7.17) 64bit installed for it to run.

I am wondering how you open/edit .elv files and how do you locate which part you want to edit from the files in the elev directory (which I assume you copy over into the elev_mod directory when you decide to edit). tileedit.exe is a tile viewer as it does not have any editing functions in it, but that is ok as long I can work out how to edit these files manually.

I would love to start making new bases in the new orbiter beta.