Add-ons

[guest]

I am a new user, starting with ver 1.3.2 installed on Win XP SP2 machine. The program runs very well but I cannot seem to access the Star Wars and SW-Falcon add-ons. As per the Readme file, I put Thomas Guilpain's Star Wars and the SW-Falcon add-ons into their own directories under 'extras' and then I modified the cfg file to read ExtrasDirectories [ "extras" "C:/Program Files/Celestia/extras/Starwars" "C:/Program Files/Celestia/extras/SW-Falcon"]. When I press the Enter key in Celestia, HD 143761 does not show up in the list which tells me that the add-on is not being read by Celestia. Correct? What do I need to do to access the add-ons?

Frank Eichel

[selden]

Frank,

Celestia does not use or understand Windows directory specifications.

There is no need to edit celestia.cfg to point to the \extras\ folder. Celestia already knows about it.

You might want to read http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html
Hopefully it'll clarify how Celestia uses Addons.

[tmbrjnkr]

Selden:

Thanks, the addon-intro document cleared things up. How does one add a star such as HD 143761 (Star Wars) to the Star Browser and have it also show up in the list that shows up with Target Name?

Frank

[Harry]

Celestia does not use or understand Windows directory specifications.

To clarify: Celestia should understand windows directory specifications since v1.3.2, if you use either double backslashes or single slashes (like the guest did).

But as selden pointed out this is not necessary in this case (except for the unlikely case that the guest is using a Celestia version installed somewhere else than C:\Program Files\Celestia\, but wants to keep his addon files there).

Harald

[selden]

tmbrjnkr,

Actually replacing a predefined star won't be possible until the next major release of Celestia.

However, you can edit the file Celestia/data/starnames.dat (it's a plain text file) and insert the appropriate name(s).

Then you can select the star by name.