Earth With Clouds: The same texture that is included with the screen saver but in a much
higher resolution. You get to see all the up-close detail you otherwise
can't see. (NASA) |
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High Resolution Textures for the
"Mother Earth" screen saverThis is where the screen saver really shines! You will be amazed by the level of detail these textures provide! Absolute eye candy!
These are all high resolution textures that can show the full detail of the planet's surface. Using the high resolution textures brings out all the detail and amazement this screen saver can provide. More textures will be added as they come available. Textures courtesy of NASA and Space-Graphics.com.
Earth With Clouds: The same texture that is included with the screen saver but in a much
higher resolution. You get to see all the up-close detail you otherwise
can't see. (NASA) |
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Earth No Clouds: If you ever wanted to see what the earth would look like without clouds,
this is the texture to try. (NASA) |
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Earth No Water: A very eerie version of the earth without water, which shows the earth's
plates. Very cool in it's own way. (Space-Graphics.com) |
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Mars: This may be an earth screen saver but it's hard to pass up the opportunity
to load in a Mars texture. (Space-Graphics.com) |
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Blue Mars: A Mars texture with what looks like water. I'm not really sure what it
is but it looks cool. (Space-Graphics.com) |
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Installing your high resolution textures is real easy.
1) Download the desired texture by clicking on the above link. Be sure to donwload the file to a place on your computer you know how to get to.
2) The file you download is a compressed ZIP file. If you have never worked with zip files and you don't have an unzipping program, visit www.winzip.com. Just download and install the trial version. There's also information on the web site to educate you about zip files and how to use them. ZIP files are very common so learning about them and how to use them is a real good thing to know.
3) Make a folder on your hard drive to unzip the contents of the zip file into. You can keep all your external texture files in the same folder. Do not change or rename these files.
4) Go to the screen savers settings window to select the external texture file.
Click on your "Start button"
"Settings" menu option
"Control Panel" menu option, this will load the "Control Panel" window
Double-click on the "Display" icon
Click on the "Screen Saver" Tab.
Make sure the Mother Earth screen saver is the selected screen saver
Now click on "Settings..." buttonYou should now be in the "Mother Earth" settings window.
5) Click on the "Load Planet Texture" check box. The "Load Planet Texture" dialog window will show.
6) Make your way to the folder you made that you put the contents of the zip file into.
7) Go into that folder and select the desired "PBT" file and click OK.
8) Now click OK from the screen savers settings window. You should see the new texture displayed from the small preview window.
Enjoy!! The visuals are really quite amazing to see!