Posts by macomberj

by macomberj
27.10.2010, 03:03
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Earth didn't pay it's light bill?
Replies: 5
Views: 5749

Re: Earth didn't pay it's light bill?

Man, you are good! The OpenGL2.0 is where the issue was (default). It works fine in all other modes. I failed to mention XP was a VMWare guest. I am running VMWare Workstation 7.1.2 with the latest version of VMTools. I am running the XPDM/SVGAII drivers which are supposed to be compatible through O...
by macomberj
26.10.2010, 17:35
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Earth didn't pay it's light bill?
Replies: 5
Views: 5749

Earth didn't pay it's light bill?

I just loaded the 1.6 package on Windows XP Pro, current patch level. Installation had no issues, starting the program has no issues. On the start up navigation to the sun then earth, the sun showed up, when the transition to earth occurs earth is a flat black area (not proportional for earth). I ca...
by macomberj
07.09.2007, 00:15
Forum: Celestia Users
Topic: Increase error selecting stars with the cross hairs
Replies: 0
Views: 2054

Increase error selecting stars with the cross hairs

Has anyone else noticed that the farther the star is away from Sol, the greater the selection error seems to be? I found this when trying to examine how far out the star data goes. I rotated my view to north of Sol and moved back until I could see all the stars represented (set magnitude to max). Wh...

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