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The backward slash "/" after Sol/Earth causes error? " Clouds of Earth" "Sol/Earth/" --> "Clouds of Earth" "Sol/Earth" In version 1.6.1 everything works correctly. In 1.7.0 bugs are very likely, but we still do not focus on it. The absence of the na...

The backward slash "/" after Sol/Earth causes error?
" Clouds of Earth" "Sol/Earth/" --> "Clouds of Earth" "Sol/Earth"

In file solarsys.ssc, line 193: " Clouds of Earth" "Sol/Earth/" causes a runtime abnormality. It should change to "Clouds of Earth" "Sol/Earth"

Janus, In your own .lua and .celx code, you have to write your own getn function. I use follows: function getn( t ) local x = 0 for k, v in pairs(t) do x = x+1 end return x end to replace table.getn() in Lua5.1 because table.getn() is no longer available in Lua5.2 onward.

Hi Joe! Could you explain what do you mean? What I meant: 1. that versions that older than Lua 5.2 do not support 64-bit, only Lua 5.3 onward has 64-bit. 2. although Celestia 1.7 is compiled AS 64-bit, it is not compiled INTO 64-bit, i.e, Celestia 1.7 is not a ture 64-bit version. 3. even if Celest...

Although the 64-bit compiled Celestia 1.7 is not yet a true 64-bit version, only Lua 5.3 onward can support a 64-bit built of Celestia in future.

From Lua 5.1 to 5.2, there has been a big jump between the two versions, which makes the hooking/wrapping between Celestia and Lua 5.2 quite a challenging task. Although, from Lua 5.2 to 5.3, it is a smooth upgrading between the two versions, the fixes on Lua 5.3 with Celestia are not automatic. 1. ...

Added 3K-texture for Ceres in enhanced colors

A similar question I asked a few days ago, where can I download the "added 3K-texture" files?

Added 1601 real stars of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.

Great work! Where can I get add-on? Or do I have to wait for your next batch of release?

Selden, great help as always! Your explanation hits the bullseys! You are the most valuable knowledge pool of Celestia in the Forum, my hat to you with big applause .

FMOD is not, to my knowledge, in open source. Why should this version of Celestia has FMOD functions embedded in the code?

VERY impressive, incredible, Selden!!! The add-on is intensively coded in Lua (5.1). But I am wondering when Lua 5.1 has faded out and replaced by Lua 5.2, your add-on Lua code could be no longer compatible, unless Celestia forever uses Lua 5.1. This is also a worrying issue that has to add onto the...

Having been struggling for the past few weekends to investigate and make Lua 5.2 (or 5.3) works in Celestia, the following are what I have so far found out: 1. The "upgrade celestia-1.6.1-alt-lua5.2.patch" (or under any other naming) could take Celestia through compilation, but beyond it c...

If you have been familiar with VS, it might be easier for you to switch to codeblocks
www.codeblocks.org

rankincj wrote: Fedora 24 contains working RPMs for Celestia 1.6.1 built against Lua 5.3: http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/linux//releases/24/Everything/source/tree/Packages/c/celestia-1.6.1-22.fc24.src.rpm There is an extra patch in there that fixes the initial port to Lua 5.2. I double checked ...

It seems that Celestia will be ankered with Lua 5.1 forever or there are something buggy with Lua 5.2. Anyhow Celestia and Lua 5.2 do not work together .

Hi, John

My OS is Windows XP, Win32 with Compiler VS2008 (also tried with VS2005 and VS2010).

The svn code under the version number 1.7 is really the same as Celestia 1.6.1 and SVN 5229.

Joe

Hi, Anyone has been successful in making Celestia work with Lua 5.2 (currently Celestia 1.6.1 is based on Lua 5.1)? I came across this site http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/source/SRPMS/c/?C=M;O=A where the download contain a patch file: celestia-1.6.1-lua-5.2.patch. ...

There are ways to draw lines between stars, is it possible for Celestia to draw a line between planets and/or moons?

Chuft-Captain wrote:- I've modified only the reported information (radius, period, semi-major-axis, and made a wild guess for Albedo). All other values remain as for Larissa (for now).
This can be updated as more accurate information becomes available.

A well done by CC. And thanks to John for the news.