Hello!

JrzyCrim · Post #1by **JrzyCrim** » 05.07.2003, 00:02

Hello everyone. I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a new celestia user and I love it! It's a wonderful program and I'm sure I'll have a few questions down the road but I promise to RTFM first

A little about me. I'm an electronic technician. I love astronomy and physics. Some of my hobbies: amateur astronomy, playing guitar, reading and of course, computers!

I hope to have many enlightening conversations with you in the future.

Cheers,

jamarsa · Post #2by **jamarsa** » 05.07.2003, 00:16

Welcome!!

I hope about the conversations too... :wink:

Wheelie · Post #3by **Wheelie** » 05.07.2003, 09:51

Is it a pulsar ?

Or do you have an :idea:

Or is it just irritating ? :roll:

-Shadow- · Post #4by **-Shadow-** » 05.07.2003, 22:44

Welcome to the Boards!
Play Guitar? That's 4 people I know play Guitar so far.
Fridger, ElPelado, You, Myself.
Here's a Present from Me and Fridger:

Say Hello to the "Flying Motor Bike" :mrgreen:

- Shadow

Guest · Post #5by **Guest** » 07.07.2003, 05:18

Some idiot wrote:Is it a pulsar ?

Or do you have an

Or is it just irritating ?

Do you find it irritating?

Wheelie · Post #6by **Wheelie** » 07.07.2003, 06:41

Guest

Darkmiss · Post #7by **Darkmiss** » 07.07.2003, 11:31

Welcome aboard Jim
This prgram is just amazing, and the forums a great place to get vast knowlage about Celestia, and good chat.

Just wait till you get Celestia Upgraded with Bigger textures, Nebula, extra space craft and so on

View my Gallery at the bottom of my reply to get an idea of what can be done.

Hell, check out all the user gallerys, there is some great stuff in them.

JrzyCrim · Post #8by **JrzyCrim** » 07.07.2003, 14:58

Thanks for the welcome everyone. I have discovered many things that are available and have already tried out some of the planetary textures. I do have a question, however. How do you implement the DDS textures? I downloaded a 6Mb file 'earth-bathymetry' and extracted the contents to my extras directory:

Extras\
............bathymetry\Earth-bathymetry.ssc
...............................textures\
.............................................medres\Earth-Bathymetry.dds
..........................................................Earth-bump.png

Is this the correct placement of these files, and if so, are there other steps I need to do in order to view this texture?

Btw: I'm using 1.3.1 pre-release 5 for windows.

Thanks

JackHiggins · Post #9by **JackHiggins** » 07.07.2003, 18:27

If I was using the bathymetry texture, here's what i'd do:

1. Extract the files from the zip, and rename the bump one to "earth-bathy-bump.png"
2. Put that file, and the Earth-Bathymetry.dds into the Celestia>textures>hires folder
3. Edit solarsys.ssc and in in earth section change to:

but keep the original lines for texture & bumpmap too, just # them out.

Then you can easily change back whenever you want, by just swapping which lines are #'d out.

(That's what i'd do, other people may have different ideas...!)

Um...

Well obviously make sure you have a card that can view dds textures & bumpmaps first!!

Guest · Post #10by **Guest** » 07.07.2003, 18:58

Thanks Jack! It worked like a charm. I think I'll be able to handle any other textures I need to install. Thanks!

JrzyCrim · Post #11by **JrzyCrim** » 07.07.2003, 19:03

I seem to be having a problem with logging in. I have to log in twice or all my posts appear as guest even though I appear as a registered user at the bottom. Anyway, I guess realize that the last post was mine. Thanks again!

Darkmiss · Post #12by **Darkmiss** » 07.07.2003, 21:26

JrzyCrim wrote:
Extras\
............bathymetry\Earth-bathymetry.ssc
...............................textures\
.............................................medres\Earth-Bathymetry.dds
..........................................................Earth-bump.png

Jim if you would have left things like this.. (above)
then all you would have had to do, is run Celestia then right click on the earth
and select the "alternate texture", and switch between Normal earth, or Bathymetry, textures.

Chris made the new 1.3.1 p5 so that not so much editing of the solarsys.ssc was needed anymore.

If you are replacing a texture with a new one permanently, Say from an earth.png to a larger earth8k.dds.
Then a small ajustment to the solarsys.ssc is needed to reflect the change.

But the Bathymetry texture is an alternate texture and was correct as you unziped it.

Just to be nosey, what kind of Rig are you running Jim

JackHiggins · Post #13by **JackHiggins** » 07.07.2003, 21:43

Aww ghodd.... I never downloaded the version with alternate textures, so I forgot about that whole feature...

Sorry for leading you astray Jim, when you could have done it a much easier way...

At least you got to see the bathymetry anyway, even if you went about it the much longer way!

Guest · Post #14by **Guest** » 07.07.2003, 22:07

No Harm done.

It's a simple matter of undoing the changes I made. I still appreciate the help. The info you gave me is still useful. I need to know how to edit those particular files.

Thanks for the additional information Darkmiss.

Darkmiss wrote:Just to be nosey, what kind of Rig are you running Jim

A somewhat older system. 900 Mhz Amd duron, Via chipset, 384 Mb ram, ATI Radeon 7500 w/64Mb Ram, Windows XP Pro. 17" sony trinitron Monitor.

It was a used Compaq computer That I bought for $400 w/monitor. Not a bad deal. It had Windows ME installed but I soon fied that!

JrzyCrim · Post #15by **JrzyCrim** » 07.07.2003, 22:13

One of these days I'll figure out the login problem. :lol:

I'm off to play with Celestia. I've got a decent earth, mars, jupiter texture. I'm going to spend some time learning the program better before installing more of the fancy stuff.

Post #16by **selden** » 07.07.2003, 22:38

Jrzy,

The login problem seems to happen most often with older versions of Netscape (4.x) (or maybe Opera?). You should consider using the most recent version of Mozilla (1.4) or Internet Explorer (6.0sp1) instead.

Be sure to allow cookies to be set, too. That's how the forum keeps track of your login status. I think when running IE you may need to set it to "low security" if you don't want to take the time to configure "custom security settings". I'd recommend the latter, though.

-Shadow- · Post #17by **-Shadow-** » 07.07.2003, 23:36

I have the newest IE, Low Security, Cookies, and Auto logon.
I've Never Experienced any logon Problems, Here on The Celestia Forum and I haven't had problems on any other problems on any other Forums.
Try What Selden Suggested I have the same configuration and it works fine.Also use auto-logon, if you aren't already.

- Shadow

JrzyCrim · Post #18by **JrzyCrim** » 08.07.2003, 00:00

Well, I am using IE6sp1 and I also am a registered user of 2 other phpbb forums just like this. I'm not sure what the problem is.

JrzyCrim · Post #19by **JrzyCrim** » 08.07.2003, 00:09

Things seem to be working normally now. I adjusted my privacy setting to medium (I thought it was set to this :oops:

) and it seems to have fixed my login problem. Must be something unique to this forum as the other ones I use worked okay. Oh well, It works now!

Guest · Post #20by **Guest** » 08.07.2003, 02:57

Darkmiss:

I'm confused by your reply above about displaying the Earth Bathometry texture. You suggest that by simply calling a different texture for Earth in the Extras folder, you can switch between them in Celestia by choosing alternative textures via a right-click. I thought you had to edit and insert an "AltSurface" command in the solarsys.ssc file in order to see an alternative texture in Celestia. Is that not necessary? I also thought that if you put another texture for Earth in an Extras folder, BOTH the regular Earth texture called in the solarsys.ssc file, and the "Extras" Earth texture called in the Extras ssc file would display at the same time, messing everything up. Is that not true?

Kris P