celestia online
celestia online
if anyone knows anyone who might be able to provide help, advice or better for creating multiplayer sessions of Celestia then please post here... even a LAN based version would be awesome... :!:
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Guest
who said anything about a game?
just to be able to see other players ships and chat is as far as I'd want to take it...
I like to leave Celestia running for long periods of time in realtime - be interesting just to have people meeting, showing the best areas etc..
one way around the time speed thing would for players on the same time frame are the only ones that can see each other.
just to be able to see other players ships and chat is as far as I'd want to take it...
I like to leave Celestia running for long periods of time in realtime - be interesting just to have people meeting, showing the best areas etc..
one way around the time speed thing would for players on the same time frame are the only ones that can see each other.
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t00fri
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Tru wrote:who said anything about a game?
just to be able to see other players ships and chat is as far as I'd want to take it...
I like to leave Celestia running for long periods of time in realtime - be interesting just to have people meeting, showing the best areas etc..
one way around the time speed thing would for players on the same time frame are the only ones that can see each other.
The chances for meeting anybody in space may be rather small;-). But if all of you will be orbiting around the moon, then, perhaps....
Bye Fridger
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Axel
Networking
Hi,
to make this slightly more serious, networking capabilities might indeed help with e.g. education.
Imagine having one person performe a simulated journey across the solar system to point out special places or new, more realistic effects.
Kind of distributed Planetarium. This idea is profundly convincing, but surely not very high on a priority list, I'm afraid.
What we currently have reg. internet ability is the possibility to get additional info about the major planets and moons via automatically started browser, don't recall the exact modus operandi for this.
Take care, Axel
P.S.: I'm pretty sure 'Mostly harmless' Celestia's Elite clone will get networking capabilities pretty early, relatively spoken.
to make this slightly more serious, networking capabilities might indeed help with e.g. education.
Imagine having one person performe a simulated journey across the solar system to point out special places or new, more realistic effects.
Kind of distributed Planetarium. This idea is profundly convincing, but surely not very high on a priority list, I'm afraid.
What we currently have reg. internet ability is the possibility to get additional info about the major planets and moons via automatically started browser, don't recall the exact modus operandi for this.
Take care, Axel
P.S.: I'm pretty sure 'Mostly harmless' Celestia's Elite clone will get networking capabilities pretty early, relatively spoken.
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Guest
just to be able to see other players ships and chat is as far as I'd want to take it...
Ah, I see. That's a very interesting idea... a 3D forum, as it were, where you could see live what other people suggest.
Kind of distributed Planetarium. This idea is profundly convincing, but surely not very high on a priority list, I'm afraid.
Axel is right, there are other things that need doing first... there are still bugs to fix, new features to impliment. I'm not a programmer, but I suspect this live Celestia would be complex and time-consuming to set up.
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Guest
Whiteboard/pointer
For educational use of a "multiplayer" session, it might be useful to give a user (either a designated "teacher", or just anybody, depending on the situation) the ability to control another's position and view, draw whiteboard scribblings on the screen, maybe even leave markers in space (with the ability to follow/sync orbit planets) that the other users could see and home in on.