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You need either rebuild Celestia against liblua 5.1 or edit scripts to replace table.getn with #. Simple installation of lua 5.1 binary package is not enough. I'm using Fedora 31 (XFCE spin), on an x86_64; I'm a decent enough user to be able to follow directions to compile this or that, but 'rebuil...

I guess you can try downgrading to 5.0. And, as it turns out, I can't actually perform that downgrade. Lua 5.0 requires "libreadline.so.4()(64bit)" which is provided by readline 4.3, while I have readline 8.0 installed; and since the protected package dnf relies on the newer readline, tha...

You need Lua 5.1 Alright; I just downgraded to Lua 5.1.4-9, and trying to run Celestia provides the exact same error message. Should I try going further down to 5.0? I don't suppose it's possible to turn off Celestia Origin's extra lua-stuff, and just take advantage of its objects, models, and so f...

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I just tried installing Celestia Origin v11 core on my linux machine, on top of Celestia 1.6.1. The installation itself appears to have completed without a hitch. However, now when I try to run Celestia, I get this error message: Error: lua-applications/lua_universal_tools_v5/lua_universal_tools_v5....

Say, does anyone have an SSC for the Martian trojans, such as 1999 UJ7?

It looks like the Sol-Mars L4 point might be close enough to my spacecraft's course to be interesting, and I'd like to double-check that.

I was a little nervous when I started reading the instructions in the readme of SevenSpheres' .7z, but Janus's .ssc slipped into my extra folders without any effort at all, and is working just fine. :) I seem to have missed a step in SevenSpheres' Barycenter suggestion; I'll be spending a bit of tim...

There is a Lagrange points addon; the download links seem to be missing but it's included in Celestia Origin (I can put it in a zip file and send it if you want). I'd appreciate that; 8.3 gigabytes seems a little much to download to get such a small addon. If you have a trajectory file, maybe I can...

I started a mid-year NaNoWriMo a few weeks ago, and have found Celestia to be a great help in pinning down the occasional detail. Is there any chance someone here could write a quick location-object or two, within a day or so, to help me with more visualizing? I'm not worried about what they look li...

I've been playing around with Phobos models, reading some old posts here, and have had a thought. From what I've been able to tell, the overall philosophy for Celestia seems to be to make it as accurate a solar-system viewer as possible - to be able to take the most accurate data available about a s...

I think I've got a reasonably decent size-scale base set up, for my artist friend to zoom in and out and swing the camera around and so on. In case anyone's curious, here's the ssc info, and a quickie screenshot. SurfaceObject "Dome" "Sol/Mars/Phobos" { Mesh "domefix.cmod&qu...

Specifying an object's orientation and long/lat on a spherical body are "easy" if you use one of v1.6.0's new directives. Getting the altitude right is going to take trial-end-error, though, since Phobos is an irregular 3D model, not a sphere. Here's the simplest SSC entry for placing an ...

(Nearly completely unrelated to the above; if I wanted to be silly, this would be the point where I linked to http://www.doomworld.com/pageofdoom/graphics/Wimap0.gif and suggested someone more skilled than I am at tweaking Celestia textures might enjoy figuring out the scale, and where on Phobos th...

I do appreciate all the work that has been done on Phobos models and textures, and thank those who have done that work. John's model-and-texture add-on should do quite well enough as a reference for my artist friend, especially if I also show her the color-references Fridger posted. (Nearly complete...

Would applying your perl script to my existing, bumpier cmod remove the polar-pinch without smoothing the rest of the moon? No the script works from the *.tab data m1phobos.tab > m1phobos.cmod -- NOT -- old.cmod > new.cmod Thank you for the clarification. i have not looked for t00fri's map but as i...

Hello, I haven't been able to find your updated Phobos model and texture on any Celestia site I know of; could you please tell me what it would take for me to produce similarly improved renderings of Phobos on my own computer? For various reasons I never upload work of mine to the Motherlode. I am ...

Here is my version of Phobos from our CelestialMatters site. http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=339&start=15 http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?t=333&start=0 Shape model and texture were directly taken from scientific publications. I.e. NO fiddling with Blender w...