un-fixed addons

p3c8 · Post #1by **p3c8** » 31.03.2005, 00:23

can someone please tell me the difference between un-fixed and a regular addon.

Harry · Post #2by **Harry** » 31.03.2005, 08:27

I guess you mean the ones on the Celestia Motherlode.

See here: http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7027
But the "-unfixed" files will probably be deleted soon, nobody complained (or even cared to comment).

Harald

hjw · Post #3by **hjw** » 31.03.2005, 14:03

nobody complained (or even cared to comment).

Well, I believe that after downloading the 3rd add-on
most (all?) gnu/linux users wrote their own perl script to fix the
filenames and learned something new about all that .Ssc and .3dS stuff :-)

But sometimes even penguins want to have fun -- without searching
their filesystems for this d***-forgot-the-name-again-filename-fixer...
so in the name of all these anonymous birds: thanx for the fixing.

hjw

Post #4by **t00fri** » 31.03.2005, 19:46

hjw wrote:
nobody complained (or even cared to comment).

Well, I believe that after downloading the 3rd add-on
most (all?) gnu/linux users wrote their own perl script to fix the
filenames and learned something new about all that .Ssc and .3dS stuff

...

hjw

Well that was my first idea, too, notably since my dreams tend to be in Perl (sometimes...) ;-)

. But after downloading >10 galaxy add-ons from ML for testing, I realized that many of the people who have no idea how file names are encoded in other Celestia supported OS'es besides Windows, often also have little idea of how to make good quality add-ons...

The alpha layer masks are often not made totally transparent where they should be and then the nebulae tend to sit on much too bright rectangular backgrounds, for example...

Kills all my imagination, at least ;-)

So I eliminated most of the downloaded add-ons and hence there was little need for writing a Perl script as concerns myself....

Bye Fridger