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Thanks guys, will do!

Dumb question :oops: : What do you do with these files once you've downloaded them?

I’ve got VTs running pretty well on my system--except for an approx. one second pause for each new texture to load. They’re really great! As well as Walton Comer’s incredible 32K BlueMarble Earth Texture, I’ve downloaded every VT I could find: Jim’s close-ups of Florida and islands, and his MercuryV...

Well I just tried the download file hip500000.stc and it didn't work either. Think I'll try re-installing Celestia

SloJoe

Sounds like a good reason to use the download. Is there a cleaner text editor for Windows that I should be using?

Thanks,
SloJoe

Hi Selden, I copied and pasted what you had in your white paper into Notepad and saved the file. When it didn’t work, I checked it against what was in the white paper, including spaces and punctuation, and saw no differences. I haven’t tried the downloadable version. I will do so tonight. I was wond...

I've just started getting into the wonderful Celestia universe but am having a bit of trouble expanding beyond the basic distribution. I've read Selden's excellent white paper "A (not so) Brief Introduction to Celestia Addons (3rd edition)" and attempted to create the first, simplest addon, HIP 5000...