Links

Hires Textures

• The best "raw" hires Textures come from the following sources:
• Blue Marble Earth [topography, nightlights, clouds] (2k, 4k, 8k, ...21k),
• Moon (11.5k),
• Mars (2.88k, 5.76k, 11.5k),
• Further Planets,

Celestia

• Official Site and Download
• Bruckner's Add-Ons Site
• Celestia Forum

Software Tools

• A very good and powerful software package for image manipulation is GIMP that may be obtained for free for Linux and Windows
• Here is an excellent GIMP reference manual (HTML,...) with many examples.
• The 'nvdxt' tools for converting TGA files to DXT(1a,1c,3,...) format under Windows may be downloaded from the NVIDIA developer's site.