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Hello Everyone, I am new to the world of astronomy, but i love to know more about it. As i found this Celesta software which seems to be very interesting but i don't know how to use it. So, can anyone help me with it? Jefflawson, start with Frank Gregorio's User's Guide. You can find it in the docu...

Reiko wrote:Here is a math formula to describe men. Happy tummy (good food) + happy bed (good sex) = loyal and loving man for life.
My mother taught me that one.

Seems you have a VERY wise mother, Reiko!

Andy

Is it possible to make VT textures with your tools using one of my own textures? Like if i made 16k planet texture or something? Hi, Reiko. I think this is one of the main goals of Fridger's tools -- their versatility. Of course you can do exactly that. You just need to combine the "tx2half&qu...

Fridger, I am one of the successful users of your commandline tools. My knowledge about textures was null when I started using Celestia a few years ago. Although I have always much too less time (for my taste) for Celestia, I was regularly reading the forum and some basic documentation provided by t...

Fabio,

to leave the "Follow" mode (as well as "Chase" or "Sync orbit", whatever you are using), just press the ESC key. You are then in free flight mode.
You may also want to look at the list of controls in the Celestia help menu.

Regards
Andy

Travelling at the speed of light means time is standing still.

My students could really benefit from having access to a program that would do the work of a commercial one like Starry Night, but wouldn't cost an arm and a leg to get if they buy a used book and the previous owner didn't leave the CD in it. doctorja, if you're looking for free planetarium softwar...

I think this is the time and place to say once again :D :D :D THANK YOU!!! :D :D :D to Fridger for providing these brilliant tools for texture making and the extensive support (documentation, installation guide, .exe files, tutorials, forum ...) In my opinion, Fridger's dedication cannot be respecte...

I thought it was general talk here (games,etc) apparently i was wrong sorry for bothering you anyway,it was waste of time posting it sanctus, of course you are free to talk about non Celestia-related topics here in the Purgatory board. Don't move back too early. People here are used to express thei...

Chris, I think your last glext.cpp fix was no good ;-) . It generated a link error also in my environment and didn't help cartrite either ... Can we return to the old setup? F. Dear Fridger, after I built QT4 successfully with MS Visual C++ 2005 Express I went on with compiling CelestiaQt (thanks f...

I think that a link to the Celestia wikibook might also be very useful, perhaps in the documentation section. Probably many people don't know about its existence at all.

Bye
Andy

m3ntol, Could you post of version of the file in zip format? I don't have a RAR decompressor, and it looks like WinRAR is shareware. Thanks, --Chris Chris, have you heard of 7-zip? It is the best tool for compressing/decompressing I know. And it is open source. RAR files can be decompressed by 7-zi...

I already have tried to debug using the console log, but haven't be able to find the tilde on my keyboard. Well, I exactly know where the tilde is, but the keys which are meant to do the tilde don't have the effect expected. I even tried to switch to US layout (from a swiss french layout), with no ...

Andy, It works fine for me. The code hasn't been updated for several days. Sometimes glitches damage the files, causing the mak files to get overwritten, etc. I'd suggest restoring all of Celestia's sourcefiles and then restoring the updated mak files. Yeah, that helped! Thanks again, Selden! Andy

With the current SVN code, compiling fails again. Here is the respective part of the compiler's log output: link.exe @C:\DOKUME~1\Andreas\LOKALE~1\Temp\nmC.tmp celestiacore.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall Universe::markObject(class Selection const &a...

Thanks to both. I will try it. But, in spite of working fine the 1.4.x version (with OpenGL 2.0), do you really think that it has to do with drivers? Regards, Gallas -- Indeed Celestia 1.5.0 comes with many new features that require recent graphics drivers. Remember that Celestia 1.4.1 is almost tw...

Bravo, Selden, that was it ...

Thank you very much for your instructions. (By the way, I am indeed building from the new svn repository.)
Just a question: Should/could I have known that or was it necessary to ask an insider here?

Thanks again
Andy

Since about a week I'm also no longer able to build Celestia with my current environment that worked fine before for months ... I'm using the Visual C++ 2005 Express compiler with the Windows Platform SDK 2003 R2. OS is Win XP Home. I downloaded again the winlibs-2.zip and winbuild-2.zip as suggeste...

Frank, the difference is the used coordinate system. Most significant: In chase mode one axis is given by the velocity vector of the selected object. You should see the stars in the background move in chase mode, while in follow mode they stand still. In chase mode you can stay on the sunlit side of...

@ Christian and Andreas: I'm somewhat surprised that you are surprised that I already have this stuff on my hard drive. You both should have known what I'm doing since Celestia 1.3.1: providing german speaking versions. I know that you both know that, and that you both use(d) the german version of ...