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I really don't know what current graphics chips are capable of, however JPEG and JPEG2000 have several features which may be helpful. For example with JPEG2000 we could just load the texture at a certain resolution. If we wanted to zoom in, then all that we have to load into the graphics memory is t...

Do we need to start a collection for a new server?

yanka

I am in the US and I have been having problems too. Most of it occurred over the weekend. Right now things are running smoothly.

yanka

Excuse me for asking the same question but I also tried to change the Celestia textures for higher resolution ones, I resampled them to the power of 2 and I see the same blurry sheres!.. What should I do - change some script in some way? How have you managed to make Celestia use higher-resolution t...

Okay I have a better idea of what you need. Several people have asked for an option so that the configuration can be changed without reloading Celestia. I don't know when that will be coming. You can accomplish something similar to this using a *.bat file (if you are using a windows system) or a she...

I am also interested in the educational aspects. Mainly, I would like to create scripts that could be used in shows like those seen inside planetariums. It would be incredibly useful for Astronomy clubs, classrooms, and maybe even planetariums. It sounds like you are doing a great thing. What about ...

Once the summer is over and things calm down for me, I would like to get started creating scripts. These scripts would contain at a bare minimum text and movement. However, later on it would definitely be cool to have voice narration. So just stick around for a few months and scripts should start ap...