viewing location names on earth

[herman]

I'm using Celestia 1.3.0 (Windows XP). I downloaded earth.ssc and put in the extras directory. However, even at a small distance from earth, I can't see any label of a city. What's going wrong?
Herman

[t00fri]

I'm using Celestia 1.3.0 (Windows XP). I downloaded earth.ssc and put in the extras directory. However, even at a small distance from earth, I can't see any label of a city. What's going wrong?
Herman

Did you also activate the labels via the menue? Or toggled the '&' key?

Bye Fridger

[don]

Locations is a new feature in the 1.3.1 prerelease version, available at http://63.224.48.65/celestia/files/.

Please refer to http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20077&highlight=#20077 for a Description of Locations. Look for the section titled "How to use a Location File" for step by step instructions. This message also contain several locations where you can obtain Location .ssc files.

Hope this helps.

[Guest]

Thank you for your answer. It works.
But now. I have different ssc files in the map extras. Are all this ssc files used at the same time? I downloaded the file with 8000 locations and also the file earth.ssc.
Toggling "&" works but what's the name of the associated label?
Herman

[don]

Thank you for your answer. It works.

I'm glad. You are welcome.

Are all this ssc files used at the same time?

Yes. What I do is to change the name of the file(s) that I do not currently want to be used. Such as from "location.ssc" to "location_ssc.txt".

Toggling "&" works but what's the name of the associated label?

Sorry, I do not understand this question. Are you asking what the "&" key is called? If yes, then it would be labeled as "Toggle Location text display", or something similar.

-Don G.