Readme.1st

• Beware: The hires texture files are partly huge. In order not to overload the server, please, estimate first the maximum resolution your card can handle and fold in your download speed, before downloading!
• DDS file download is initiated by a simple mouse click on the file entry. JPG and PNG files usually require a SHIFT-click, since a simple click will display these standard image formats in your browser, which is useful.
• If you have checked DXT hardware support (NVIDIA,...), the textures are preferentially displayed in (zipped) DDS format. Existing (JPG, PNG)-textures that are not (yet) converted to DDS are, however, also displayed.
• The pink dot in the 'Preview' column may be clicked. Then a typical Celestia view involving the respective texture is displayed.
• In the Help column I will soon add the relevant modified portion of 'solarsys.ssc' in automatized fashion, such that installation should be trivial.
• Finally, I plan to add an 'update tag' for files that are younger than a week, say.
• I try to follow a uniform file nomenclature 'body-feature1-feature2.format'. Typical features are 'spec' = specular reflections, or 'bmp' = static bumpmapping by means of a separate level map