


It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your sky culture. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web). licensingīefore you distribute images as part of a Stellarium sky culture, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. You should also include a description.en.utf8 file which describes the sky culture and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the sky culture. This should be unique to your sky culture, and it would be nice if it was all lower-case with no spaces. zip file with all files inside a directory in the. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096. Please make sure all contributed sky cultures conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.īe aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer. IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e.

If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice. To find out more about how to create a sky culture, see the Stellarium User Guide, and examine existing sky cultures. Make thumbnails 300x170 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please feel free to contribute your own custom sky culture here. zip file in the skycultures directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each sky culture). Create a sub-directory called skycultures in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).

Browse to your User Data Directory, which varies according to your operating system.Please follow this procedure to install a sky culture package: zip file for a sky culture from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.
