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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 20th May 2006 07:11
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is there a website thatcontains a very high resolution maps pictures, images?

i think i saw a map of mars somewhere which was like 6000,5000

does anyone know any good sites?

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dark coder
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Posted: 20th May 2006 07:42
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google 'eath surface maps' and the site should be on the first page as i did this search 2 days ago.

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 20th May 2006 20:25
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i am sorry but google earth has pretty bad resolution pics. The other day i found a site with mutch better res images, but i lost the site

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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 20th May 2006 20:35 Edited at: 20th May 2006 20:36
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The largest you'd probably want to use would be 1024x1024. I know that your objects use a very large scale, but their size on screen will not be large scale. Therefore, a smaller texture would display correctly and consume far fewer resources.


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dark coder
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Posted: 20th May 2006 20:58
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notice i never said google earth

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 21st May 2006 05:30
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Quote: "The largest you'd probably want to use would be 1024x1024. I know that your objects use a very large scale, but their size on screen will not be large scale. Therefore, a smaller texture would display correctly and consume far fewer resources. "


well if you are looking at the planet from far away, then you can see the repeat texture, one of my planets are already this way, but jupiter has it scaled to 1,1,from far away it looks good, well, i never expect the player to go that far out but still, it would be cool.

on the other hand, the high res textures make the game very laggy. on a lot of pcs i tested it on.

still, my 3 ghz mashine can run it with no problem

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 21st May 2006 05:34
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Quote: "notice i never said google earth"


Quote: "google 'eath surface maps' and the site should be on the first page as i did this search 2 days ago."


oh sorry for a while i thought you said google earth surface maps not google "earth surface maps"

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Dazzag
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Posted: 21st May 2006 13:44
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I'll have to dig through my old stuff. Basically a while back I thought it would be cool to do an Xevious type game that rotated but with real landscapes. Linking with Google Earth would be cool come to think of it now, but at the time I just downloaded some seriously detailed maps. Took me ages to find, but basically kept searching for thinks like "super high res maps" and the like. Unfortuantly Google earth totally dominates now so is hard to find in a search. Stuff I found was pretty sharp images (better than Google earth by a fair bit) that were like 5000x6000 resolutions and stuff. Unfortuantly they were quite big and DBP didn't like it much. Had some pretty sweet scrolling landscapes that rotated pretty well, but at that resolution it took a while to load (on a pretty meaty PC) and even zooming in quite far the landscape didn't take long to scroll out (even with mucking around with mirroring and flipping images to make it appear never ending). Was going to make it strip the images but got bored. One image was so big that DBP refused to load it (after about a minute of thinking about it).

I'll look on me laptop to see if I still have them (or at least the link). Might have removed them in my last clean up.

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 21st May 2006 13:52
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http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/earth.php

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