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Yep, I was also thinking about the Borg, but then I though that it just couldn??t be that bad :wink: Well, updating to the latest S3-drivers (from their website) didn??t solved the problem, but disabling hardware-acceleration did! It??s a little slower but it works! Now I'm just going to write a lit...

Hello! I have just bought a new computer with a built-in VIA/Unichrome S3 Graphics component and suddenly all galaxies has a... Well, strange appearence. All other things in Celestia are working beautifully though. With my old computer (which had an ancient Cirrus logic 5436 Graphic??s card) Celesti...

Hi Selden! Thanks for the advise! Much appreciated! Yes, a collaborator would be very handy. The Swedish wikibook-project is quite small, just about 20 books and a quite few participants, but I??ll give it a try tomorrow. The problem here at the Celestia Forum is that I seem to be the only Swede aro...

In a folder, deep buried in a dark corner of my computer I have several unfinished celestia-related documents. The reason that I haven??t finished them is that I don??t have enough knowledge about astronomical stuff, different render paths etc. to create a full translation. This is what I have so fa...

I think it can, bit its clunky. Maybe, but it seems to be a very hard work just to achieve a small result. Celestia has gone through a major development process since it was first released and I feel that it??s time to start thinking about a more "efficient" types of textures. Quite a long time ago...

I don't know if Nasa's World Wind can display in 3D as Google Earth when we view the ground on 45?° like the screenshot of the Grand Canyon at the top.

Gaaah! I would really like to see that 3d-effect in Celestia! *Imagine*

t00fri wrote: Hi Tosv, The way modern catalogs do differentiate is by using a much finer subdivision of the galaxy classification scheme than what we employ so far in Celestia. We use the classical Hubble classification. With the newer extended classiifications such differences could partially be ac...

Hi Fridger! Yes, I have been following the discussions about this new mass-rendering of galaxies and I??m aware that every galaxy is unique and that it would be impossible to fine-tune every one of them by hand. I was mostly curious if there was a way to do this automatically by some kind of already...

Maybe the arms should be polished a bit, according to the galaxy photo the arms are thinner, or more wide spread, and a little "diffuse". Maybe a few small blobs could be inserted between the arms as well. Now those areas are almost empty. Is it possible or would this slow down the rendering too muc...

Great idea - if I had been using Mac Can somebody compile such a version for Windows too? It would be much appreciated. *Please*

"Mir" "Sol/Earth" { Class "spacecraft" Radius 0.0165 # Mir is 33 meters long Beginning 2446482.0 #Launched 20 Feb 1986 BeginningText "Launch Date" Date1 24221234.412 Date1Text "Docked With Discovery" Date2 2421444.00 Date2Text "Blew a large gasket" Ending 2451989.77083 # Reentered 21 Mar 2001 Endin...

BlindedByTheLight wrote:

Check this out:

http://www.gnacademy.org/twiki/bin/view ... Extensions

Does it all!

Well, this is good news! I really hope this patch will be integrated in the next version of Celestia.

wcomer wrote: I'll update the links in the tutorial after I do my reinstall. It looks like my description of the SDK install will have to be modified as well. I see that you are using the Intel 64-bit-version. is that the same as package PSDK-ia64.exe found on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...

Hello to you all! 1) The Installation is found at this website: (Note - this site seems to require internet explorer.) http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/ 2) Select the "Downloads" tab and the "Install" submenu. 2a) From "Core SDK (Windows Server 2003)": Select "Build environm...

Well, I??m also interested in this. I made a FR about it two weeks ago:

http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7195

Hi and welcome to the community! I hope you will enjoy it here!

Request for an alertbox to help people to set dates for lost spacecrafts:

http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7195

When trying to search for a spacecraft that??s no longer in use (Huygens, Galileo etc), Celestia will end up, staring out in the empty space. Instead I would like to see an alertbox appear when one searches for a craft that is lost, telling the user that he has to change the date. Example: "The spac...

Hmmm... As I said before. We really need a organization that is not relying on one person only. Maybe we, as t00fri, said, are unable to find a replacer for Chris at the moment, but something has to be done. Unfortunately i don??t have a solution. Celestia has gone from being a small project to a pr...

This, again, raises the discussion on the weakness of having a project relying on one single person. First of all, we don??t know the reason to why Chris is not responding and we should not judge him. The question we should ask is, are there any unique knowledge that Chris has that can??t be found a...