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unidentified cosmic turd

false. it is identified.

SevenSpheres wrote:I'd suggest using Celestia Origin

i'll check that out, but no promises. at a glance, i see some minor problems. for example, it classifies planet 9 a regular "planet", but i'm not keen on showing hypothetical objects.

How many images have you used

i create new images as they get used up. the generator virtual machine is started every 3-4 days, as needed. the lua script iterates through 100 random objects and takes screenshots. eventually you will see the same body, but from a different angle at a different time.

just a little bit of bragging if you don't mind. i just finished a new little feature on my blog, a random image made with celestia, changing by the hour. this is done with an amazon ec2 instance generating a bunch of images at a time using a lua script. the instance is summoned to life automaticall...

i'm totally in the dark here. installed celestia on an amazon linux vm with Xvfb. my init script seems to run fine, but the screenshots it is attempting to save simply does not show up. the same script ran fine on my box. celestia.cfg is correctly set, and it is confirmed by the fact that the script...

100%! more bugs later

well, no surprise i coudn't get it to work then. anyway, kudos for the express fix! i celebrated too early. the new version still crashes the exact same way. now i spoke too early. newrotation now succeeds, the error comes later. trying to reduce down to minimum code okay, so now it is observer:seto...

beginner tries celestia scripting the first time. this causes celestia to crash and just disappear ori = celestia:newrotation(-0.5, -0.5, 0.5, 0.5) no error message, the celestia just quits. it is the entire script, no context, no shenanigans. i'm on linux mint cinnamon 18.3 celestia compiled from s...