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Solar System: Earth
 
Surface Maps | Bump, Normal, Spec Maps | Cloud Maps | Night Maps | Close-ups | Other Earth Files
 
This page contains bump, normal and specular textures for the planet Earth.
Specular Maps: Specular maps mark surface areas covered by water, so Celestia can render these ares with specular reflections, i.e. they appear more shiny. This helps tremendously for rendering realistic surfaces. Note that a few surface texture already contain the specular map (as an alpha-layer).
Bump- and Normal-Maps: Both texture-types are used to generate fairly realistic shadows on the surface. To achieve this, Bumpmaps store the height of each point on the surface, while Normalmaps store the surface normals (hence the name), i.e. the vector perpendicular to the surface. You typically get smoother results with a Normalmap than with a Bumpmap.  
 
Earth: Specular Map Textures
Screenshot File Size Creator Info
click to see screenshot 32K Earth Specular Map
32K/VT/DDS

11M
Buzz
32K Earth specular map. More information about this addon
click to see screenshot 32K Earth Specular Map
32K/VT/DDS

9M
Harald Schmidt
32K VT Earth specular map designed for use with Harald's other VT's.  Special homepage for this Addon More information about this addon
click to see screenshot 32K Earth Specular Map
32K/VT/PNG

43M
Jestr
32K VT Earth specular map designed for use with Jestr's Earth Mark I VT's. More information about this addon
click to see screenshot Earth Specular Map
2K/4K/8K/PNG

2.4M
John van Vliet
2K/4K/8K Specular Maps. More information about this addon
Earth: Bump and Normal Map Textures
Screenshot File Size Creator Info
click to see screenshot Earth Normal Maps
SSC/PNG

29M
John van Vliet
Earth Normal Maps (2K/4K/8K) More information about this addon
click to see screenshot 8K Earth Normal Map
8K/DDS

5.2M
Praesepe
8K Earth Normal Map texture. More information about this addon
click to see screenshot 32K Earth Normal Map
32K/VT/JPG

56M
Harald Schmidt
32K Earth Normal Map VT designed for use with Harald's other VT's. Special homepage for this Addon More information about this addon
click to see screenshot 32K Earth Normal Map
32K/VT/JPG

30M
Jestr
32K Earth Virtual Texture. Designed for use with Jestr's Earth Mark I. More information about this addon
click to see screenshot 32K Earth Normal Map
32K/VT/DDS

55M
Jestr
32K Earth NormalMap VT. Designed for Jestr's Earth Mark II. More information about this addon




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