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The easiest quickest way I can suggest to get the view I saw, as I am at work... is to go to Sol, rotate the view so that you are over the top of Sol, perpendicular to the galactic plane, and start zooming out. If I'm right you should start seeing it once you are more than about 500LY out from Sol. ...

Hi there! I downloaded and installed a huge star database for celestia, its about 45M or so. Something I noticed as I was 'flying around' the neighborhood of Sol was that there *appears* to be a big doughnut of stars around Sol with Sol pretty well slap bang in the center of it. The torus is horizon...

Considering this is where comets come from,
anyone care to knock up a hypothetical quaoar becomes a comet for celestia?
;)

I had terrible problems with later detonator drivers in XP... by the sound of it these may have been fixed (it was a problem with opengl or something). For those having XP problems, try running celestia in win98 compatibility mode (go to the properties of the celestia.exe file). If it works in compa...

Ok how about this perspective;
Whats a lense flare supposed to be in reality?

Isn't it due to imperfect optics?

If I were on a space cruise-liner I would be wanting
a refund if the viewing deck had lens flare!!!
8-|

For what its worth, I've found that the very latest NVidia Detonator driver for windows XP have somewhat flakey openGL support; Celestia (among other things incl Icewind Dale) just won't work (unless I put it into '98 compatibility mode and then its REAL slow). I had to go back about 3 driver versio...

On the other hand, XP does an admirable job of 98/95 compatibility; but installing 98/95 apps on NTFS filesystems can make this more difficult. I use NTFS for the system partition and install games etc onto the fat32 partition... By the way, I had to run Celestia in 98 compatibility mode; until I ro...

and thanks for bringing reality to my attention! I had *no* idea that venus rotated so slowly! In the tests I ran, I made certain that I was viewing earth, mercury and venus with exactly the same settings; earth was spinning like a top, mercury was slowly turning and venus didnt *seem* to turn at all.

I just noticed that while Venus appears not to rotate on its axis in celestia, Mercury does. I thought that Mercury was (tidally?) locked to the Sun and always had the same face toward it? (maybe it rotates very slowly in reality?) Venus, on the other hand, while the cloud cover might not move a lot...

Though it hurts me to say it, having been a long term Linux geek (10 years!!!) XP is the best thing to have come out of MS *ever*! I know, its not hard for them to improve ;) But I've no problems with XP stability. One prob I have tho is having to run Celestia in win98/Me compatibility mode. But at ...

Have you tried the compatibility modes? Sometimes you have to try them all out to see. I've usually found the win2k compatibility mode works well. To use it, right click the executable in and go to properties, there will be a 'compatibility mode' tab. I've had great success getting programs to run t...

I was watching an edisode of the Andromeda series which had a large spacecraft in it.

The spacecraft consisted of a 'small' star with a bunch of planets hooked up in a structure around it.

It made me think; is it possible to have stars move in celestia? How would such a thing be done?

chris wrote:There's not a better way to do this right now, unfortunately. The scripting language in 1.2.5 will be much more flexible.

--Chris

Excellent! Can I beta?

The script would be a good start! Thanks!

However, from the source code it should be dead easy to
add the functionality we need.

All I have to do is find out how to compile celestia on windows.
My Linux box is a bit underpowered and has other important
things to do...

As far as I can tell, the celestia scripting language only allows one to travel to an object and stop at a distance from that object measured in terms of the radius of that object. I've looked at hacking the source to introduce an alternative, but can't figure out how to compile on windows. a) is th...

cygwin seems to cope admirably well with the configure script etc;
the only place it seems to fall over are the libraries.

My suspicion, however, is that if it did compile it would compile as an X application... I'm not sure if the cygwin XFree86 would cope so well with the graphics.

I have long experience with Linux, compiling kernels and various open source packages, even making minor modifications etc, though I would never call myself a 'coder'. My problem is that I have never compiled anything on windows and I have no idea where to start. The celestia source appears to be id...