[Celestia-developers] New extrasolar planet textures

[Chris L. <cl...@ww...>]

I've checked in the new extrasolar planet textures from Chaos Syndrome.
His work is based on the paper "Albedo and Reflection Spectra of
Extrasolar Giant Planets", which is available on the web here:

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v538n2/50692/50692.web.pdf

These textures replace all of the old extrasolar planet textures other
than venuslike.jpg, which is still used for the handful of Neptune mass
and smaller planets.

Grant has sent me an extrasolar.ssc that consistently assigns the new
textures to planets based on their estimated surface temperature, but I'm
holding off on checking it in until immediately before the release.
Otherwise, the people who regularly sync to CVS to get the latest
extrasolar.ssc will have problems unless they also know to get the new
textures.

--Chris