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Dollan wrote:
For my part, I'm thrilled beyond belief.

Me, too! I really hope NASA and ESA will announce a plan to send a couple of rovers to Titan sooner than later. This looks like a world that's worth exploring!

So, when will we have this modeled in Celestia? It would be a very interesting stop in a tour of the universe!

I'm just curious how many programmers are actively engaged in working on new features in the source code. Does anyone have an idea?

I can't get to it.

I'm not sure why my PC is pausing so often when rendering. When I "go to" a selected object in Celestia, I can watch the simulation travel most of the way to the object (stars whizzing past), then before the object appears the PC pauses for 5 or more seconds and then the selected object is rendered....

Hi, I think there is a better way with Altsurface method : making a ssc file in extra directory for example 'earth venus.ssc' with this code inside AltSurface "Earth venus" "Sol/Earth" { Texture "venus.*" } this permit going to the earth and right click in the menu that appear click on Alternate su...

Is there a way in Celestia to toggle on and off a particular addon?

Reading on the Cassini-Huygens web site, it talks about the Huygens probe's descent through the atmosphere taking 2 1/2 hours. Why will it take so long, at the speed it travels, to descend through the atmosphere?

t00fri wrote:
I disagree completely. Laziness always wins...

Bye Fridger

That may be true in Germany...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

But isn't this whole idea killing a lot of people's potential creativity!? No. People would still have the ability to decide whether or not to use someone else's universe configuration, and could still add to it or modify it. The freedom is still there. But there are a lot of people who want a part...

mmarable wrote:Maybe instead of posting complete zipped files, a listing of what addons they used and any tweaks they've had to make.
Just my opinion.

I'll settle for that! Can we do it? Maybe the best approach is a new forum here at shatters where we can post and discuss our universes.

I've been downloading some awesome add-ons to Celestia and I've read posts from the "experts" in this forum referring to their own Celestia add-on collections, and it got me thinking... I'll bet there are some pretty awesome add-on collections of Celestia out there that many of us could benefit from...

How about all of the Pioneer spacecraft? I've gotten the models of Pioneers 10 and 11 to work, but the earlier ones don't (using Celestia 1.3.2). Does anyone have good solid add-ons for all the Pioneers? It would be nice if they were all in a single zip file that installed them correctly.

The Educational Activities are so outstanding that I use that version of the Celestia installation for all of my Celestia touring. All of the new add-ons I download go into the Educ. Activities folders and directories. Does anyone know if the Educ.l Activities will be updated to work with Celestia 1...

Is there a primer available that would get me started with developing simple add-ons?

Thanks!

Oooh, I really like that suggestion. It would also make it easier to calculate how long it would take to get from point A to point B at different speeds. Nice idea!

OK. Got it now. Thanks, Cham.

I'm an engineer, not a physicist. So please forgive my simple question. Since pulsars are very tiny stars, I would assume that their light is emitted omni-directionally. If so, then as they spin, I would expect minimal variation in their intensity. However, based on the amount of change in magnitude...

Are there any plans to create a 64-bit version of Celestia for the new Windows CPUs (e.g., Athlon)?