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I've just discovered a terrain generator which uses Anim8or, my favourite modelling program; Terranim8tor here's a moon landscape I've made today, with a Celestia background and a Terranim8or foreground http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/med_moonsurface2.jpg The program makes landscapes which can be ...

For what it's worth, here is the code for Bullseye. "Bullseye" "HIP 117492" { Color [ 0.3 0.5 1.0 ] Texture "blueplanet.*" SpecularTexture "blueplanetspec.*" Radius 6121 Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ] SpecularColor [ 0.5 0.5 0.55 ] SpecularPower 25.0 Atmosphere { Hei...

I think I'll made an add-on for Bullseye and place it on the OA site.
In the meantime you can find some code in this thread;
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12198&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=tidally+locked

Hope this helps

steve

Sorry; I forgot all about posting that add-on. But the one that you posted is more or less identical to mine. As far as the possibility of a hurricane goes, I was inspired to make mine by this National Geographic programme; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_(planet)#Aurelia from there Half of Aur...

I've got a planet which has such a hurricane; I'll post the .ssc for it when I get home. The rotation is quite complex...

A gas giant in the process of being artificially converted into a small star (this process is called 'stellification' in Orion's Arm) link to the stellification page http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a48d58c84350 And a gas giant with a luminous band (a 'sunline') http://www.orionsarm.com/im_stor...

A gas giant in the process of being artificially converted into a small star (this process is called 'stellification' in Orion's Arm) http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/med_Gayomart.jpg link to the stellification page http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a48d58c84350 And a gas giant with a luminous b...

And it is inclined with respect to the equator -something I would have thought was impossible. If I recall correctly that would be quite difficult to do in Celestia.

For the Orion's Arm scenario, we assume that global warming is a temporary problem. Carbon dioxide emissions will gradually decline once the use of fossil fuels becomes uneconomic; solar power, other renewables and nuclear power of various kinds will fill the gap. But the CO2 will remain in the atmo...

Eeeh!
I vaguely remember the adiabatic lapse rate concept from my college years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapse_rate ... lapse_rate
but that was upwards of thirty-two years ago; apart from a fascination with convection clouds, all that stuff has been forgotten now.

Some of the movie clips on this page were made by me, using Celestia
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa- ... gen_movies

A T class methane brown dwarf



and an L class Lithium dwarf

Perhaps this is a good time to mention that the first Orion's Arm Novella collecton is now available at Amazon; this collection includes a short story set on Rufus (see the the first post in this thread) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Against-Diamond-Sky-Tales-Orions/dp/1432740997/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=...

Hi Felipe! ------------------- I've finished the VT for Atlantis (Zeta1 Reticuli II), and am halfway through the VT for Nova Terra. Thanks! ------------------- the virtual texture for Atlantis can be seen here http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/med_atlantis1251205994.jpg Both files are a bit big- abo...

I think that I may have to use meshes, assuming that they do obey 'beginning and ending' declarations.

http://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/celestia2.jpg I've updated all the Orion's Arm addon pages, with new Cel:URLs which work with the new Celestia 1.6.0 system http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-page&page=gen_OACelestia1 http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-page&page=gen_OACelestia2 htt...

Well, we'll forget about the colonisation of the Solar System for now, as that would be on a completely different scale. The animation I should like to make involves the colonisation of different stars, and so would start with the stars nearby to Sol, and gradually expand outwards as more and more s...

Hi! Scripting is something I haven't tried before, and I must confess my complete ignorance at this time. However I've had an idea for a use of markers that would be very useful to me, and I wonder if there is any way that it can be done. My plan is to show the advance of colonisation in the fiction...

I've got 360 planets in the Ecotopia system; they are all artificial planets, created to test out experimental biospheres
http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oae ... ca9d97f6c5

Thanks, Bob; that worked very well.

I am going to add a link to a version of 1.6,0 on the Orion's Arm Site. Do they all have this ecliptic line on display? I'm not really interested in where the Earth's ecliptic is when I'm in a different planetary system. Or should I recommend this CELX fix?