Postcards from Titan is an AddOn scenario for Chris Laurel´s 3D space simulator, Celestia. The scenario lets you explore a semi-factual Titan in high resolution.




There are two versions: a light, realistic version, and the full, "conceptual" one that contains a lot of fictious stuff... The full version needs a very good hardware setup to run smoothly. Pick the one to your taste from one of these sites:

• My Celestia Files website (under the Downloads tab)
• My Celestia Motherlode directory

Note: the full version is split into two separate downloads because of it´s size. You only need part 1, part 2 just gives you much higher resolution for the Virtual Textures, should you want it.

1. If you have it, make sure to disable or remove Jestr´s Cassini-Huygens AddOn before you start. Then:
2. Place either the light or the full version in your Celestia /extras/addons/ directory
3. If you selected the full version, place the contents of Part 2 (the HiRes folder) inside it´s Textures folder, like so: /extras/addons/th_titan/textures/hires/
4. Re-start Celestia

• Celestia 1.4 pre+ for Windows, OSX or Linux (required)
• A graphics card with 64 MB VRAM or better
• Preferrably 1GB RAM, though less will work
• 88 MB free disk space for the light version
• 660 MB free disk space for the full version (337 MB less if you don´t install the separate HiRes folder)

• Dr. Fridger Schrempp, for use of his Titan maps - with many thanks for the helpful discussion, information, and encouragement
• Ulrich Dickmann, for the very cool Huygens CelX script
• Jestr at the Celestia forums for contributing his great Cassini/Huygens models and data

All material - including textures and graphics, 3d models, HTML, text and data used in the Postcards From Titan AddOn and on this website are original works created by Runar Thorvaldsen, exept for:

• The Cassini and Huygens models and data files, by jestr
• The global texture maps used in the light version of Postcards, by Dr. Fridger Schrempp
• The Huygens CelX script, by Ulrich Dickmann

Contents of "Postcards From Titan" and of this website may be used in any way you like exept for commercial purposes, as long as proper credits are displayed with any publication. You may not charge money for the use of, or access to, any of this material.

Included material produced by other authors / designers than Runar Thorvaldsen are only distributable to the extent they explicitly give permission, and it is the user´s responsibility to obtain such permission.

• Surface modeling, texture and map design:
  - Ciclops (The Cassini imaging lab)
  - Saturn´s moon Titan (The Planetary Society´s Titan pages)
  - T00fri´s Titan: Dr. Fridger Schrempps Titan maps (Release thread on the Celestia forums)
  - NASA´s Cassini site
  
  
• Conditions on Titan
  - ESA´s Titan pages
  - Rainbows on Titan (Dr. Tony Phillips, NASA)
  
  
• The Cassini/Huygens mission:
  - Cassini-Huygens descent and landing - jestr´s original AddOn
  - Cassini-Huygens Mission Grand Tour: Ulrich "Adirondack" Dickmann´s original Cassini-Huygens script
  
  
• The Titan Organics Explorer mission concept:
  - Titan Surface Mission (How did life get started?), University of Arizona and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  - Balloons for planetary exploration, Greg Goebel
  - Titan here we come, New Scientist
  - Exploring Titan, Ralph D. Lorenz Home Page / by Mark Robertson-Tessi and Ralph Lorenz
  - Space exploration beyond 2020, R.L. McNutt, jr.
  
  

Runar Thorvaldsen (rthorvald), 29. june 2005
Web: http://www.celestialmatters.org