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Some systems ( like my Gentoo Linux ) have multiple instances of Autoconf installed for compatability reasons, and they use a script to determine which version needs to be run for a given project. For Gentoo, this script looks for: # - defaults to autoconf-2.13 # - runs autoconf-2.57 if it exists an...

Great job on the design doc, don! :) I've been working hard to get OpenGL working under my development environment. Once that is fixed I'll be happy to help with both the KDE gui for the addon manager and the new Celestia backend code that would be required. I agree with Christophe that this isn't t...

Hi Christophe, I agree zip may not be the best solution. My plan could even work with each package unzipped into it's own subfolder. In any case, I'm sure you can agree that no user should have to manually edit a text file ( read: *.ssc ) to get an addon to work, nor should they have to worry about ...

IMHO, no addon system would be useful without a way to manage the data currently stored in SSC files. My recommendations: - Store ALL data in the new addon data package format. ( ie zip files ) Remove the textures, extras, and models directories ( shaders too? ) Like files would then be grouped toge...

Wow, this is kinda exciting. I don't post around here much, ( in fact I haven't really checked the forum for a couple of months. ) so if no one knows who I am I'll forgive ya. :wink: I'm a C++ programmer w/ Qt GUI experience and basic OpenGL experience. I didn't realize the Celestia project was recr...

Could I interest the Celestia developers in including code in .ssc files to automate new texture downloads? This code could be useful in obtaining current cloud maps for earth ala XPlanet: Atmosphere { CloudMap "http://www.mirror.com/earth-clouds2k.png" MapUpdate 10800 ... The MapUpda...

O.K. I tried to install celestia on a system with Win-2k a 350 Megaherts pentum 2 Processor and an old Nvidia TNT card. But it is very choppy, even with the low res textures :cry: . I cant even play Quake III it sys it cant initulise OpenGL, is this my problem, and if so can somebody provide a DIRE...

NVidia TNT2 32meg

I also have a GeForce2 32... PCI!!! It's useless if I have any desire to play audio.. even browsing the web with it causes choppy music playback. I've traced it back to NVidia's drivers.

Hello, That's not a bad start. The biggest recommendation I can make from the avi is that you won't want the white cloud whisps to move through the great dark spot. I would just move that whisp somewhere else and avoid the spot completely since Celestia can't warp the cloud texture around it. :) You...

Ack!!!

Nice texture on the Neptune rings, but I guess no one remembered mine that I posted a while back.

Neptune Texture + Neptune Rings
Triton Texture
Neptune Rings Only

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I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't get highres texture to work. I've been trying serveral times to put the ddsfiles into the texture\medres map but when I start Celestia You only see a bad texture. It seems that the program cant read the highres files. I have the latest version of Celest...

Ok 4k for jpg is a bit much so Im making them 2k instead...anyhoo heres the m class star...since it has the best detail...I am wondering if in one of the next versions if the flare can be rendered behind the star instead of in front...This will bring out tons of detail... Wow, that was fast! :) Wel...

I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but a story on Slashdot presents a new Swedish telescope in this story that can image the sun more accuratly than ever before. Although the site is currently suffering from the slashdot effect, you can see one of it's images here . I hope this can inspire...

Thanks for your reply Rassilon, but could you explain how I should use Flexify? I first projected my texture from 'equirectangular' to 'polar', then I made my changes. However, I can't seem to reverse the projection. Trying to go from 'polar' to 'equirectangular' made a mess, as did all the other 'o...

Hello all, I'm trying to finish a new texture, but I'm having a little trouble with the poles. I used the Photoshop 'Polar Coordinates' filter to paint them, but when I check out the texture in Celestia, there is still a noticable shearing at the poles ( although it does look better than when I hadn...

chris wrote:Mir will remain in the default installation, but I've added (just last night) Beginning and Ending fields to .ssc object definitions.

Wow, I wasn't expecting that so quickly. You're my hero.

Have you looked at http://www.dixiesys.com?

I love all these ideas and would love to see them implemented at some point. However, I think it would be prudant to concentrate on the most profound, yet basic changes required to make all these ideas work. They are: 1) Multiple orbit definitions per body 2) Start/End times per orbit 3) Reparenting...

And can i do something like that in Windows? I'm afraid not. :( I even tried renaming my .png to a .jpg to match what was already in the .ssc, but apparently Celestia's texture reader depends on the file name extension to determine the file type, rather than peeking into the header. ( This is my be...

If you travel back in time to January 1st, -4715 and continue to travel backward through time, the Month/Day/Time display will begin to display incorrect data. First it begins counting the time for January 0 -4715, then it starts displaying the month 0. Once we go through that month, the year change...