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I have made a model of messenger with blender3d,but the 3ds exporter I found can't export texture,these pictures shows my work,If you like it I'll continue to work with it and try to solve these promble.but now ,I don't have many time to do this.because a very important examination is near.I should ...

the promble still exist in the following releases!
May be It's a promble limited to specify video card or OS.
but I want to know if there is a solution to this promble.

It's a bad news
but still thanks alot.

hi,you post some very nice screen shot here! I notice that your saturn ring can drop shadow on the surface of the planet.But my saturn dosen't have the shadow of the ring ,can you tell me how to get the same effect as yours. http://www.cosmoscape.com/bbs/UploadFile/20044181658014505.jpg

Thank you
I 'll try it.

I have download zsh-2.40 and installed it on my redhat9 linux.I run the script with "zsh ./vt" but It still encounters errors at the same line as before.

I found the VT creation script can't be executed. It have errors.I use "#" to disable each line that contain an error an find these: [root@localhost c]# sh ./vt '/vt: line 62: syntax error near unexpected token ` '/vt: line 62: ` ((offy = j * tilesize)) [root@localhost c]# sh ./vt '/...

model of Spacecraft sometimes (not always) didn't show specular effect,it only show the color of material.It Most likely to happens when a planet　and a spacecraft are displayed at same time.As shown in the picture below. My machine have a geforceMX video card and I run celestia under windows ...

Maybe the president election have drawn most of the attention.And the mars mission is on going.Two month after president Bush announced to sent men back to moon,there is still no searious plan to evoke the project. But the first phase of my country's moon exploration project is becaming clear now. C...

thank you for your reply.

I have an nvidia graphic card,and in previous versions whe I use ctrl+v to change vertex shading mode,all the five choice is available.
but in 1.3.2pre7,there are only 3 choice for me ,the Open GL and Open GL/Nvidia Combiners mode is unavailable.

Since This post is very old
the link post on it isn't available now .
but I have a great interesting to try it
could someone have this file email it to me via this address:superchen513@hotmail.com
thanks alot !

the moons have this promble are phobos,deimos and mimas(I have use a
real shape model for this moon,to show the big crater more realistic)
It seems that the moon with a odd shape and a color texture will enconter
this promble.

thank you for advise.

I have used the map-plane,it's good and easy to use.:)But I have a little promble :When I zoom out the earth I saw the the position on the earth where I placed the imagine is a white spot.I want to make it invisiable .Ihave noticed the description in .ssc file have included the declaration "ivisiabl...

Like Divine implied, I am putting all my bets on China to be the first to return to the moon I don't mean that China will surpass US in space exploration.A race with US is neither affordable nor practical to us.We have many promble, too.We can't spend large portion of budget on space exploration wh...

Another great plan!Congratulations US friends. Wow, quite a difference. I'm looking forward to the next space race. (perhaps to Mars with China). My country isn't rich yet. but of course we'll go to moon and visit Mars,too. a race with US? Probably not,we 'll achive these goal in our pace.accoding t...

Ma Hong Yam said he(she?) lives in Hongkong,and discovery this site nine months ago.and then come here evevry day,nearly.and He find the people here very firendly and distrubute own works without payment.he want to thanks you all.particularly Mr Chris. 好运气对空间...

[quote]I'm also wondering if there are any people from China or more likely Hong Kong who are using Celestia? I proudly declare I'm a chinese user of celestia.It's very interesting. Didn't the chinese authorities ban access to any US I.P. addresses last year I'll say it's not true,we can visit cnn t...