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That's wonderful! Yes, some means to quickly spot the systems with planets would be handy. To explore my normal method is to step through the text of extrasolar.scc and type them in, bookmarking them one by one.

Thanks & here's to future updates,

- Heath

Greetings. The last version I have of extrasolar.ssc is dated 04/25/07. I've searched here and elsewhere, and haven't found a more recent. Is there one? Perhaps this thread could be used to track future versions as they're released; I had a hard time sifting topic descriptions for the file. Thanks f...

Well, at least it wasn't because of what I did, I guess. And I can usually piddle around to get a body to rotate it seems. Thanks for taking a look.

- Heath

Hard to say if the actual steps would replicate the problem, since I still have the problem and therefore can't re-break it. I could list the steps (if I remembered them precisely), but could not know if they would result again in the problem I still have. Nevertheless:, this following for me result...

I may need some help here; I've re-installed Celestia and deleted its .plist (OS X) to no avail. I've gotten used to going to a planet, then right-clicking to Lock Phase so I can watch the texture spin underneath a consistent coverage of sunlight. Earlier, I had a planet in Lock Phase, and zoomed wa...

Aha, so in the source code. That makes sense. Well, I'm unlikely to recompile the app just to play with galaxy color. Thank you for letting me know.

- Heath

Ah, I understand.

I understand and respect the official striving for realism, and your views on fantasy space-art I've noted. That said, I would simply like to experiment. Where, then, is the coloration for The Milky Way set?

Respectful thanks,

- Heath

I am wondering if there is a simple way to tweak the overall tint of the puffy procedural galaxies from a beige / grey to a bluish hue. Too much time spent in digital planetariums for me, I guess. Any ideas?

Thanks,

- Heath Rezabek

Very nice textures. I eagerly await their download into my computer. Thanks! Actually, the original alternate asteroid texture has not shown up on Motherlode, which has me hesitating to try and submit my other things yet. I may have mis-categorized it (Fiction) as it wasn't meant solely for Asteroi...

Your gas-giant cloud cover (posted in the Celestia pictures thread) looks to be a great start! One of the things that seem to be missing at this point are small swirls representing storms. True enough. It's the rough form, but not yet detailed as i would like. Quite a bit of it is procedural, and I...

I'll play along. :) I have a separate thread devoted to Astrobiology & Exoplanets , but this looked like a better place for this recent work in progress... I think I'm finally homing in on my process for creating consistent, seamless, imaginary Gas Giants. I should be able to create these at any...

hand's off. pluto's mine. ;) Heh. A gift for you, then, My Liege. A LoK-preserving subtle crater-pocking of Pluto and Charon. (The Triton-blend version will take awhile.) http://www.wholesignal.com/celestia/PlutoCharon/pluto-charon-lok-shaded-01.jpg http://www.wholesignal.com/celestia/PlutoCharon/p...

I don't know if you've been to NASA's astrobiology site. It is chock full of great information. It's here -> http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/ Some great resources! I had seen but forgotten astrobio magazine. Thanks! I have been working on an alternate 2k Class 1 Giant. It retains the color layout ...

[Selden; I'm on OS X; but I've now gotten the hang of finding these worlds in the .ssc and bookmarking them once I get there. :) ] You'd probably want to check out this thread which was when I was actively creating/maintaining the new texture system. You make a great case for keeping the designs min...

Selden; thanks for the info! Heath, Exactly what are your interests? How would you want to use the data? I am particularly interested in that area between knowledge and imagination. I am a hobbyist, but also being a librarian, I enjoy deep research. After reading some of the material in the Springer...

I'm particularly interested in using Celestia to visualize exoplanets and extrasolar systems. I've searched and found threads referring to the extrasolar.ssc file, but as yet have not found any sort of 'home base' for those focusing on extrasolar activities, or tutorials on how to make the extrasola...

This may be a strange place to say so, but as a new and awestruck enthusiast of Celestia, I for one adore the glowey-blob galaxies. I distinctly remember the first time I saw this method, a few years ago in a digital planetarium, and I thought it was brilliant, beautiful, elegant and actually quite ...