General Question How to make planet textures?

[Luke Skywalker]

Okay, i'm getting a bit bored of the default Sol in orbiter so i want to make my own planet, i know how to make the cfg file but i don't know how to make textures.

 

[Veterok]

There are a few programs to help generate textures on orbithangar. To get the .tex, file you need to pass a bitmap through pltex.exe in orbiter2010/utils.

 

[Mandella]

Okay, i'm getting a bit bored of the default Sol in orbiter so i want to make my own planet, i know how to make the cfg file but i don't know how to make textures.

Very outdated, but have you tried this page of tutorials?

http://www.eharm.net/shop/freeware/orbiter/developer/developer.html

 

[mjanicki]

Very outdated, but have you tried this page of tutorials?

http://www.eharm.net/shop/freeware/orbiter/developer/developer.html

I used the "Create a Solar System" tutorial at that link about a year ago to do a mock 61 Virginis system and found the tutorial to be very helpful when it came to dealing with textures.

-- Mike