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Do you mean first-person as in Doom/Quake/Half-Life, or first-person as in Volition's Freespace 2 (which incidentally I'm playing through during lunchtimes at work, it's very good!). I think Celestia's engine could be used to make a Freespace 2-esque game with heavy modification (basically it needs ...

Hi all, I'm having another go at tinkering with Celestia. This time I'm trying to compile it using the Code::Blocks IDE and the MinGW compiler. I may be a novice but it's been a bloody nightmare, to put it bluntly, and it still doesn't work. I've encountered numerous problems on the way, some of whi...

There is a problem with your gtk config somewhere. What is the output of running this as root:

Have you run opengl-update nvidia as root? What does running glxinfo show?

I haven't looked at this for a very long time, but DDS textures are precompressed to a format that graphics cards can read very quickly. Thus if you can get a texture into DDS format, it is very small to store and takes no time at all to decompress. CompressTexture True I can only guess tries to com...

Indeed, I use Mozilla and the text scales fine, whether it be on this forum or the main Celestia site.

marc wrote:From my own tests I'm a sexy man.

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I'm not sure gravity is implemented in MH properly. From 100km above the Earth, I start drifting towards the sun :O/

1.12 GB in total, mostly texture masters.

As celestias universe gets bigger it really helps you to feel small. Really? I find that as Celestia's universe gets bigger, what I feel is not the insignificance of the body, but the enormous scope of imagination. It's quite amazing that a bunch of lifeforms sitting on a little blue planet somewhe...

A poor excuse, get back to work!

My 21" Trinitron hopefully arrives tomorrow, until then I'm at 1152x864

Problem is though, that in real life (ahem) when you would be flying towords the sun, you can't turn off some stars :P I'm still trying to find it without doing that A computer would be able to increase or decrease the brightness of a set of stars on a viewscreen, so this would be possible. The cha...

Tested this on my gf, and apart from having to help with finding the Pleiades, Antares, the galactic centre, Aldebaran, the difference between "above and slightly to the left" and "a lot to the left and slightly above" and why fine tuning ones position at 1 ly/s isn't a good idea, she got there in t...

Okay, try this, which is a bit of a variation on Pauls path, but I believe easier to follow and more accurate. RULE: No HUD, related to distance from or identification of objects (i.e. no clicking on a star to see what it is/how far away it is). The Celestial Grid, Constellations and Orbits must not...

Nice, though the Borg clouds looks a bit warped.

If you imagine the internet in terms of a water network instead of data, your bandwidth would be how 'fat' the pipe connected to your house is. The fatter your pipe, the faster the water flows to you. The higher your bandwidth, the faster your connection speed. Do you see? In this case, Mr. Anonymou...

A standard picture is made up of three channels - Red, Green and Blue, which makes up the full colour image. Additionally, an image may have one (or sometimes even more than one) alpha channels - a fourth channel that can be used to map the transparancy (think dark = transparent, light = opaque) or ...

I sorted this a long while ago :O)

I converted my .dsw files from Linux line returns to Windows line returns, but somewhere in the process one of them corrupted, which threw my build process in the bin. I redid the conversion, and they work now.

JPGs are slow because they have to be decompressed by the processor before they can be displayed. DDS files also have to be decompressed, but they are decompressed by your graphics hardware, which is a lot quicker and supports some new features. (at least I think that's right) Don't use the photosho...