Re: [Celestia-developers] Jens' revision of mercurybump.jpg

[Grant H. <gra...@bl...>]

Chris:
> Do you think it's worth keeping the Moon bump map at all?  It's fabricated
> data, and I don't think it looks that great.  But if anyone here is
> attached to it, I don't mind leaving it the base distribution.
I think if we're going to keep the current shaded relief texture for the
Moon, the bumpmap is unnecessary. But I think we should be moving to a more
naturalistic texture for the Moon, such as the one Jens just supplied - in
which case a bumpmap would introduce a little shadow and stop the crescent
phases looking too washed out (since the basic texture is based on
shadowless, full-moon illumination).

Grant