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Re: ...and planet textures ... [message #40308 is a reply to message #40306]

Tue, 03 August 2004 09:02

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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Ralf Schaa wrote:
> Yet another question:
>
> I found that one can add a jpeg as a texture for a sphere, so i added an
> image from Mars (http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/mars.html) as a texture, which
> is beautiful ...
>
> But how can I rotate that texture, so that the 'planet' is showing the
> right front/up/down to me ? ( when looking from Earth at a specific
> epoch...)

Easiest is to rotate your texture in an image editing program.

If you want to rotate it an arbitrary amount "on the fly" then you can
modify the Texture_Coords. I posted about this a while back:

http://tinyurl.com/3nkw2

-Rick

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