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Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Landscape for Nebraska Star Party campsite
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From: Rustin L H. <ru...@fo...> - 2016-07-19 15:56:32
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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. > > johanmeuris.eu <http://www.johanmeuris.eu> > mobile: +32 494 14 79 23 > e-mail: joh...@gm... <mailto:joh...@gm...> > > On 19 July 2016 at 01:21, Rustin L Haase <ru...@fo... > <mailto:ru...@fo...>> 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) > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network > bandwidth and > >> traffic > >> patterns at an interface-level. 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