General Question Planet Resolution Levels

[othoudt]

Can anyone tell me what the highest resolution levels are for the various planets are/or and where I can find them? Thanks

 

[orb]

You can read max. resolution level for a planet from planet's configuration file (i.e. <planet_name>.cfg). It's the number after:

MaxPatchResolution =

 

[TSPenguin]

You are probably looking for actual planet textures. Check the Recommended Addons page for a compilation of some.

 

[orb]

TSPenguin is probably right, but BTW, if you want to check what max. resolution level of texture files you already have installed for planets, look at <planet_name>.tex file size in Textures / Textures2 folder. And in Textures2 there can be also <planet_name>_tile.tex files for levels > 8, that may have only local tile coverage (i.e. non full planet), so reading their max. resolution is harder (if they are not covered globally).

File sizes for level 1..8 textures (successive levels include all lower levels of texture), and full coverage textures of levels starting from 9. For level:

1. 2 176 bytes
2. 10 496 bytes
3. 43 392 bytes
4. 109 184 bytes
5. 372 352 bytes
6. 1 161 856 bytes
7. 4 451 456 bytes
8. 16 425 600 bytes
9. 47 896 576 bytes
10. 239 482 880 bytes

 

[othoudt]

Thanks TS and orb. I didn't know where to find the best textures. I tried searching Orbit Hanger for them but I got everything with an "Earth" or "Level" in the file name or description which amounted to hundreds of hits. Now I know where they are located; in recommended add-ons. One thing though...looking in the planet's .cfg file may not be the best way to determine the resolution of the textures for the planet as earth,cfg in Orbiter beta 2009 has a MaxPatchResolution = 14. Orb's file sizes seem to be the best way to tell.