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Chris,

would be possible to add a similar feature for storing multiple cloudmaps?

Phillip

Andrea, Frank, I'm working on a couple of projects with kids in the same age range as well, though from a museum perspective. Our local museums is looking at using celestia for a small planetarium exhibit that can be used by kids from the local schools both within the museum itself and as part of th...

Seldon, thanks - it was an association problem. Have another program called Toon, which also uses the .cel file extension. Unfortunately it resets the association without telling you when you use it, (not particularly sporting of it). The command line passing works a treat, now to wire it all up to ...

Hi Seldon.

thanks for the pointer. Perhaps I am missing something, when i tried this on the Windows 2000 machine I have Celestia installed on - it simply spawned a new instance of Celestia...

have yet to try it on the linux box....

PT

Astro,

is your code still available? reason for the question is that i am interested in remote controlling celestia from a handheld over a wifi network and this seems a perfect solution.

PT

Hi Chris, not suprised you find it distasteful. The X format is essentially a data dump for the architecture - X files just hold data and echo closely the directX SDK. When you parse an X files using the file parser routines,the data is read, an appropriate D3DX object (meshes, skin information etc)...

Chris, this is just a thought, would it be worth looking at Microsoft's Direct X format - it offers a chunk of what your looking for including animation. While obviously its designed for Direct X, you could use the file parsers etc from the Direct X OpenGL wrapper project to ensure cross platform su...

looks like a nice app in deed. thought the idea of being able to visualise the sphere of Earth's radio signals was a nice touch .... (mmm wonder how to do that in Celestia :) ) I wonder if they present it ala Robert Zemeckis's opening visualisation sequence complete with sampled soundtrack from Cont...