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Am I not understanding again? (likely)

However, wouldn't this kind of positioning and El Christou's desire to
position the spacecraft correctly require an XYZ file?

Just curious.

Well, since Selden hasn't come along yet... You should always download the latest drivers for your graphics card, and it could be that the models themselves aren't pointing to the proper directories. Again, I don't know beans about most of these things, but surely someone else here can help you... T...

t00fri wrote:In case you have never seen some "pixels" here they are, specially for you

Thanks Fridger...

You just made me spit out my lemonade while reading this thread. Started
laughing so hard my wife thought I was having a heart attack.

Keep up the good work.

Take care, Bob

Forking development of a software means to open a new branch of working on it, so that there will exist two different versions of the software in the future Thanks for the education Maxim... You guys had me worried there for a moment. Since this is the explanation, I wouldn't mind seeing a fork. Ho...

Just curious... What does it mean to say "Fork Celestia?" Do you mean that we should throw the software away and forget about it? Do you mean that we should stop developing add-ons and textures for it? Can't imagine that that's what you mean. I'll be using Celestia on my PC until I'm dead. (Probably...

KeirenHalcyon92, Like yourself, I have to answer "NO" to all of the questions put to you above... However, you should find something that you really enjoy doing in Celestia - and here on the forum - and just make a pain of yourself for a while. :wink: I find that I like to create Touring scripts, bu...

Chaos,

Just wanted to say "Thanks" for this interesting way to look at planets
which we can't yet see. Great idea.

Take care, Bob

Nice to see you again Bob! It was about time :wink: Let??s keep those crazy doctors away now. :) Thanks all for the comments. As far as Doctors go, I'd personally like to take a baseball bat to most of them. Sorry Fridger, I don't mean you... I'm talking about medical doctors now. :wink: Take care,...

Sorry all, and thanks for the concern.

I've been at the mercy of some sadistic doctors for a while,
and there wasn't much I could do about it. <shrug>

I'll try to stay out of the hospital for a while now.

Take care, Bob

I've had to bring up a script in wordpad, then cut and past to keep it as a *.cel. I can't seem to save without it turning into an unformatted text document. Could you guide me on this ? I simply use Windows Notepad to write scripts and ssc files. Just save the file as a plain old .txt file, then r...

Terry, You should be able to make your spacecraft do whatever you want it to do by modifying some of the parameters in an SSC file which describes your spacecraft. The following code describes Jestr's and Frank's 2001 Discovery spacecraft. Note that entries starting with the # sign are comments. "Di...

Fridger,

Just wanted to thank you for this beautiful texture. I'll have to reduce it a
bit in order to use it on my machine, but it's far better than any other
Titan texture I've seen.

Again, thanks very much for the beautiful texture and your hard work.

Take care, Bob

Can't believe that no one else has added this screenshot yet... <shrug> Click the link below to see my favorite screenshot from Celestia. Is a representation of the Space Station from 2001. Much prefer this to the floating pile of space junk which is our current space station. Click HERE . Thanks, Bob

Tosv, Don't know if it will help or not, but Ulrich Dickmann (a.k.a. Adirondack) has successfully translated a good number of scripts into German. Maybe you could ask him for some advice on the processes involved? Just a thought. Also, there are a wide variety of language translation sites available...

One should compare only the surface of the balloon with 3D space, and ignore the 3D properties of the balloon. This way you'll see that dots on the balloon (representing galaxies) do not move with respect to the balloon's surface, but that they get further apart because the balloon's surface itself...

If everything in the universe is expanding outward, wouldn't the logical solution involve running time backwards to see the point in space and time where all the galaxies and other stuff originated? You can do precisely that, but consider where that simulation leads: We'll trace the Milky Way back ...

Pardon the intrusion from the Brain-Dead... But wouldn't the center of the Universe exist at the point where the Big Bang originated? If everything in the universe is expanding outward, wouldn't the logical solution involve running time backwards to see the point in space and time where all the gala...

Well, I'm glad it helped somebody...

Thanks for the thanks.

Take care, Bob

Just found a very interesting educational freeware package which deals with special and general relativity. Is a great educational package and is completely free. Can be found at: http://www.aliceinphysics.com/ Just thought you'd like to know about it. Last updated in February 2005. Take care, Bob

Fridger, Sorry I've been away, but I'm back now... Also, what gives here? I thought that you were going to give us a tutorial on how to manipulate textures for Celestia. Hell, I can view the Gimp tutorials any time, but I thought that you had some specific instruction in mind. No? Your superb Iapetu...