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On another note, I found some really good surface textures and heightmaps for Hyperion while browsing Deviantart. If there's anyone here who'd be willing to put them to use, then by all means do so.

I think I might have found something that might allow me to convert old-style planetary textures to the quadtree format, specifically texconv.exe, which can be found in this forum post. This is what I get when I use Command Prompt:

By the way, does anyone here know what the purpose of EXTRACT.exe is? Does it have anything to do with planetary surface textures? This is what I get when I use Command Prompt:

Yeah, I'm not experiencing the issue you described myself. At least, I don't think I am.

I set them to the bitmaps in question to those exact sizes, so I have no idea why it's doing that.

Okay, so I typed up the command lines as described, but when I press the enter key, I just get sent back to square one:

By the way, here are some improved versions of the tiles for Andor and Weytahn, created using the original LunarCell presets. I tried using Command Prompt in the manner you described in this post, but all I get is a list of functions and options. Either I'm missing a step, or this technique only...

Actually, I now know the cause of the problem I was having. I was still using the old texture scale there.

Not much, unfortunately. Specifically, I keep getting something like this:

I think that might have been the problem, as I input -180° and then 180°.

Unfortunately, it seems that when I tried to create the tiles for Andor, the results ended up being completely warped. (Possibly because I made the mistake of starting at level 7 and then moving down from there?) If you want to test it out, here's an upload of the system with only the scenery...

So what exactly do I use? Command Prompt?

On the other hand, when I tried to install Windows Terminal, I got a message saying that something on my computer had blocked the installation process, and therefore I have no way to access Texpack. Linked below are the unpacked surface tiles for Andor.

Actually, I've already figured it out on my own.

Have you got the surface tiles for Andor done yet?

Does anyone here know how to create new elevation tiles entirely from scratch? I assume it begins with a greyscale bitmap, but I don't know enough about the procedure to say for certain. Specifically, I'm thinking of creating heightmaps for some of my STPSP worlds, starting with Andor and...

You'll probably have to ask misha.physics or someone else in the previously linked thread for help there.

Very good! Hopefully you can find the time to figure out how to do the elevation tiles.

Does anyone know how to get Texpack to work? Whenever I try to open it, it just blinks and then disappears. Is this a file location issue? By the way, I've only just upgraded to Orbiter 2016, so I'm fairly new to this sort of thing.

Clearly, you'll have to ask someone who knows more on the subject for help there. P.S. Here's what misha.physics has to say on the subject: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/custom-planet-elevation-maps-for-orbiter-2016.34105/page-3#post-633609