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It's interesting that you should mention this. I'm nearly finished with a complete rewrite of the observer frame code and was contemplating making this very change to chase mode, and also redefining phase lock mode to use the velocity vector as as the second frame vector. IIRC, the primary vector i...

Why People like Selden is not included and cited as part of the dev team. That's because I'm not. I'm an "advanced user." Celestia makes it possible for me finally to construct things I've dreamed about most of my life, so I tend to try to make it do things that are at the limits of its capabilitie...

The main way in which Celestia is departing from the bazaar model is on the 'release early, release often' motto, but that's mainly because we aren't that many working on it. As it has already been said by others we would all love to have a larger team, and we are open to new contributions, the pro...

Hank, which parts of the Celestia UI are you considering suitable for "Lua Hookification"? Which parts are you thinking would make more sense as a C++ GUI? (Qt?) As described above, my recent experiment doesn't use the Lua Hook mechanism in Celestia as such, but rather implements the main event loo...

The performance is an important issue. I am obsessed by performance in all my projects. I know that is wrong in principle because a software first of all has to work. Of course performance is important, but it's usually a mistake to focus on performance prematurely. In my vision I would like that c...

Another question is jumping in my mind continuously in this period. How the celestians wiki should be integrated in the current development process? How the official developers is supposed that will interact with this tool? In other words if we will update the roadmap, we will discuss about the imp...

ElChristou wrote:As the Edu tool do have a light impact on the FPS, I was wondering if it was the same under your test...

I don't believe the Lua Edu Tools have had any substantial performance optimization. I ignored performance entirely in my test.

- Hank

ElChristou wrote:But without the platform specific GUI, right?

Right.

- Hank

ElChristou wrote:

hank wrote:...I've done some experiments with a more direct approach for a Lua-based GUI, and the results seemed promising...

No way to have a look to this test? :P

Have you tried Vincent's Lua Edu Tools? My test looks essentially the same (as it uses the Lua Edu Tools code).

- Hank

Paolo wrote:Since we are talking about cleanup in general I would like to suggest the adoption of a more complete coding standard...

Paolo,

Why don't you go ahead and create a wiki page for this topic?

- Hank

I still would like to see some sort of simple and effective GL UI in pure videogames style. E.g. the Stellarium one. Vincent's Lua Edu Tools uses a cross-platform GUI based on Lua and OpenGL (which are already built into Celestia). The toolkit is fairly primitive, but nicely demonstrates the possib...

Why in the CVS tree there are still very very old visual studio prj files? Why those files are not replaced by the current updated sln files for VS 2005? Why winlibs are not included in CVS? PLEASE! Don't say that a decent C++ programmer can get rid of those problems very quickly!!!! It's simply a ...

chris wrote:I'm doing my own investigations into Qt, but I won't actually start writing code without coordinating with Christophe and the other devs (and of course, not before finishing 1.5.0.)

Has anybody looked at wxWidgets?

- Hank

????? A little bit of confusion and redundancy..... Which is the tool that the new developer volunteers should use? Please don't say ALL.... ... Develpers should concentrate on code, info and data not on documentation tools. Hi Paolo. I've suggested using the public WikiSpace (http://celestians.wik...

If this is not the proper thread to report 1.5.0pre4 bugs, please move this to the right place. I have been waiting for 1.5.0pre4 to come out so that a major bug in atmospheric lighting would be fixed. Alas ... it is still there. In broad daylight, if I look up into the sky, I can see most of the p...

One doesn't have to be a practicing physicist to understand this issue. With that I certainly agree. But you must also grant me the professional ability to judge when someone has NOT understood this physics issue and YET continues to produce "hot air" posts. This was not the first time and at some ...

Presumably the values used would have a reasonable scientific basis, which would be clearly documented. Unlike you, Grant correctly stated: I doubt if there is a scientific approach that could generate accurate radii for red giants and supergiants without using prohibitively complex calculations. S...

I never talked of a veto, but I put in my vote. And I justified my vote from the experienced perspective of a senior professional scientist. ... And now you come along, suggesting that I don't have a veto and rather we should return to undocumented "jigger factors"... Actually, I believe it was Gra...

I just have no desire to do work which I know will not be well received, since Fridger is generally quite direct with his negative feedback. As a user of Celestia, my sympathies are with Cham on this; but given the choice between doing work which is welcome and work which is not, I trust you'll und...

It's certainly better than reporting grossly incorrect radii. I certainly agree with that. I always found it misleading that Celestia prints star radii out, based on a very primitive estimate, as if it was reading out a sophisticated data base! Celestia should say something like "estimated radius",...