Suggestion: a default search list for surface textures

It'd be nice if Cosmographia's included textures were located and provided 
automatically if a specified texture is not found in a catalog's own directory 
tree. While one can explicitly specify the path to a texture, one can't depend 
on either Cosmographia's or the catalog's directory names and locations being 
the same for other installations of the program.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a catalog with an object which specifies "sun.jpg" as its baseMap.
2. load the catalog and view the object.

What is the expected output? 
An object with the same coloration as the Sun

What do you see instead?
A blank sphere

What version of the product are you using? 
r231
On what operating system?
Win7 Pro SP1 x64

Original issue reported on code.google.com by s...@cornell.edu on 30 Apr 2011 at 7:29

whiskey0201 / cosmographia

Suggestion: a default search list for surface textures #5