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To show the effect of planetshine, the most obvious way would be too look at the differences between Celestia with planetshine turned on and Celestia with Planetshine turned off. I read somewhere in this forum that a temporary switch is used (control-X) to enable/disable ther planetshine. Cartrite's...

I don't think this has anything to do
with the Vista version,
my guess would be that you don't have openGL 2.0
hardware support, or possibly limited support.

What video-chipset do you have on your laptop.
You can show the openGL capabilitis using /help/openGLinfo menu.

Ren?©

Will an executable do? I can keep an ongoing updated executable that can replace the original from 1.5.0. If and when my website is accessible that is. It seems to be going down a lot again. cartrite That would be a GREAT idea for those of us too lazy (or dumb) to compile the things. Would be much ...

You should update your signature, not to confuse your posting.
But regardless of you signature,
I still don't know what you are trying to say ??

Ren?©

Symaski62 , what are you trying to say ??
Anyway , you have a very old NVIDIA driver (81.12 beta)
169.44 is the latest I believe

Ren?©

this is already very impressive, Chris

one question:
will the planetshine (implicitly) include also "moonshine" ??

Ren?©

actually, there is no problem installing Celestia in Vista. It will create sub-dirs and files in the "program files", if you then decide to change some of the file e.g. editing the solorsys.ssc you get this annoying warning of the Vista build-in UAC , asking for confirmation. No big deal if you edit...

Actually, you can do that by running Celestia as administrator - or by taking ownership of the executable's folder. The real trick is to not put any program with a lot of config files that will be manually modified a lot, like *.ssc files - i.e. for testing purpose - in the standard "program files"...

indeed ,

thanks for the tip !!


Ren?©

other option would be to use Vincent's latest
lua tools,
it has a magnification options for the planets (I believe 200 times)

Ren?©

Bob ,

I have the 32-bit Vista home-edition,
and I realy don't do anything special
when installing the Celestia program.
I only get the UAC interaction once, asking for confirmation,
then al goes without my interference.
Celestia then runs "out of the box"

Good luck,

Ren?©

Selden , If the system is centrally administered, the group security profiles and/or directory protections might have been changed recently to keep people from downloading and unintentionally installing malware. Yes, at our office we do have group policies and such, but this fact is not very likely ...

The administrator rights are caused by the installation itself on my

No No Bob, I was taking about a regular windowsXP
system where the admin rights suddenly are required.
On my Vista system at home, there was no trouble installing
latest Celestia-pack
Any thoughts ??
Ren?©

Thanks Chris, for this newest Celestia version, however (there is allways a however) when trying to install the program on my windows machine at work the installer says it needs administrator rights which I don't have. In earler version there was no need for administrator rights. Why does this versi...

The format is extremely complex and Celestia implements only a

Selden,

I guess you are kidding about BMP being extremely complex
right ??


Ren?©

unfortunately JPG2000-lossless compresses
only marginally better then PNG , and compresses/decompresses
also a lot slower,
so I think this is not the way to go for Celestia

Ren?©

OK, your are proving my point: it is not specific Microsoft that does this, it is far more general. I also think that companies are bringing out product 's too fast, fortunately, in general, the updates are free. As far as Celestia is concerned, nobody has the right to complain, because it is open a...

never buy the first release of anything from Microsoft I really don't know why a lot of are nagging (to say the least) about Microsoft, of course a first product of Microsoft will contain bugs, but doesn't that apply for ANY product, software or hardware, even our own Celestia has bugs, also the "o...

A lot, if not all problems described are due to the fact that windows doesn't allow data to be placed in the program files directory. That is part of the security system (UAC) , and can be turned off completely, or partly I believe. To enhance compatibility and still use UAC microsoft implemented a ...