Improved 3D Geoscape Rendering [was: Nightime city lights in 3D geoscape]

[MCR]

I uploaded the medium res version to current trunk, because I remembered that somewhere here we agreed that the medium res package will make it to trunk, but the high res package will only be available as additional download...

But now I am not sure if I will get beaten for doing this 

The low res version has 28.6 MB, so I thought this is really nothing compared to the 120 MB the version has, that I am currently using fluently on both of my systems (still not succeeded in squeezing filesize)...

Please do not hate me for loving good gfx & high resolutions 

[Mattn]

that is something i will remove from the final installers anyway and offer as different download - some people has to pay for every megabyte they are downloading.... please keep that in mind.

[MCR]

Sorry, I really thought initially that you just 'forgot' those...
I did not want to make extra-work...

[MCR]

IMHO it was a very good decision to keep the medium-res globe textures for v2.3. 

Still there are phantastically, phenomenal looking high quality versions available also, which I would like to share with others too. 

Is it okay if I commit those @ least to data_source so others interested could download those from there ?!   

[Kildor]

No. Big textures should be somewhere on site, but not in repo. It can just simply destroy SF SVN.

PS: btw, you were wrong in message of r31015. You shouldn`t manually break strings, only different phrases should be newlined, and * should be in begining of sentence, not each line.

[MCR]

No. Big textures should be somewhere on site, but not in repo. It can just simply destroy SF SVN.

Those are not THAT big, Kildor. 
We are talking about 120MB
But okay, if you say so. We can sometime later upload those somewhere else as this has no big priority...

Sorry 'bout my wrong commit-comments. Will do it like you described it in future-commits...

It is also easier & faster that way, so thanks for the comment

[MCR]

For those who want to check out the globe in highest resolution  - here is the link to download the pk3:

http://www.mediafire.com/?0x3iyqfn8h60w0o

 

CHECK IT OUT - YO !