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Olympus Mons: some 27km

MHO: Ever heard the term "MipMapping"? That's what you'll need here - enhanced by the concept of using only a subset - the visible part - of the textures. Yes, that would require some serious 3D programming beyond the use of textured, bumpmapped spheres, but it should provide a solution to the large...

Sky decals. Let us paint on the background sphere with input from ssc files. The SETI users among us would be eternally grateful....

There's not even a "location"-button/-menu in the gtk (i.e. linux) version of celestia 1.2.4 - none that I'm aware of, anyway.

"Bookmarks". Beacons in space that represent your position and viewing direction afterwards. Select one from your list and your old position is replicated. Would be great for ⋅ demos (bookmarks visibility must be optional) ⋅ tracking the night-sky from your home ⋅ just ...

would be, yes, but celestia doesn't support decals on the "sky" background yet, as I was told...
That means we probably won't be able to keep a chart of the regions without any detecable extraterrestial activity in celestia....

If you have installed gtkglarea after your first attempt to run "./configure", you should delete the file "config.cache" from the celestia source directory. Since RedHat 7.3 comes without gtkglarea, this could very well be the problem - also hinted at by the "(cached)" in 'checking for gdk_gl_query...

AARGH! :oops: looks like my /usr/lib/libGL.so was not as healthy as all gl progs but celestia considered it to be. resorted to reinstalling the NVidia driver rpms and ... voila! celestia is back - as beautiful and interesting as it used to be. Thx for caring about newbie probs, ppl! :roll:

As stated before, I already tried deleting the celestia dir and binary, followed by a recompile and reinstall. Didn't work. Trying with a fresh download now... [make] A question in the meantime... is it possible to declare an object in celestia as inifinitely far away but still visible? I'm aiming a...

I'm new to Celestia, so... hi all. I like Celestia: Thanks for this great prog. Celestia 1.2.4 stopped working: #"§$@*! The most important bits about my system: RedHat 7.3 GeForce2 graphics card, NVidia drivers installed. One fact is that other OpenGL programs work well. Another fact is that the ver...