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Celestia 1.5.0 prerelease 5 for Windows is now ready:

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... .0pre5.exe

The list of issues to fix for 1.5.0 final has dwindled, so this should be the last prerelease that's not a release candidate. That is, the build of Celestia after 1.5.0pre5 will become 1.5.0 final unless bugs are found in it.

Any bugs remaining in this version of Celestia should have tracker bugs filed: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=br ... tid=121302

Here is a list of changes since 1.5.0pre4:



In addition, there's some test code enabled on Windows that allows you to show body axes, frame axes, sun and velocity vectors for objects via the popup menu.

--Chris

Many, MANY thanks Mr. Laurel...

Downloading as we speak, and with MUCH appreciation for all of
your efforts here.

Take care, Brain-Dead

Man, did I pick the wrong day to download 1.5.0pre4 or what?

You're an Angel, Chris, thanks!

Chaos Syndrome wrote:Man, did I pick the wrong day to download 1.5.0pre4 or what?

Haha ouch.


Post Scriptum: The stars are beautiful now. Thank-you so much!

Thanks Chris. The stars are definitely more convincing now, although not yet as "hot and glowing" as they were in Cleestia 1.4.1, but still much, much better I am going to enjoy this release now. Is it possible to thicken the atmosphere a little bit? (Or add an option to adjust the stellar atmosphere density individually for each user - in .cfg or somehow else). That would make the stars still hotter. Otherwise I did not see any bugs

This is not the case: the versions of extrasolar.ssc and extrasolar.stc in the installer are not the most recent ones.

The version of extrasolar.ssc supplied is 1.96, the most recent one is 1.98, so the planets Lupus-TR-3 b, OGLE-TR-211 b, HD 156846 b, HD 4113 b, Kap CrB b and GD 66 b are not included.

The version of extrasolar.stc supplied is 1.17, the most recent one is 1.20, so the stars OGLE-TR-182, WASP-3, Lupus-TR-3, OGLE-TR-211 and GD 66 are not included.

chris wrote:...In addition, there's some test code enabled on Windows that allows you to show body axes, frame axes, sun and velocity vectors for objects via the popup menu.

Could this be integrated to the osX version? (could be interesting)

Don't have the time right now - maybe this weekend if there's nothing happening..

dirkpitt wrote:Don't have the time right now - maybe this weekend if there's nothing happening..

Don't worry, time is all we have...

Would using a specific render path, combined with a specific video card, cause problems? I try to use the Open GL 2.0, but if I have *anything* that Celestia regards as a nebula, be it a true nebula add-on, some sort of Celestial grid, or whatever, the system dies completely. Using Open GL Vertex causes no such problem, but then you don't get those wonderful planetary atmospheres with the mie scattering, etc.

My card is a Radeon X1600 with 256MB of memory, and has the most recent divers.

...John...

John,

That implies a serious bug in the graphics driver.

I'd suggest reporting it to ATI/AMD.

Thanks Chris,

for this newest Celestia version,
however (there is allways a however)
when trying to install the program on my windows machine at work
the installer says it needs administrator rights
which I don't have.
In earler version there was no need for administrator rights.
Why does this version require admin-rights,
and is this something that can be fixed ??


Ren?©

The administrator rights are caused by the installation itself on my
Vista machine. The only way to fix it is to either reset the permissions
which you cannot do unless you HAVE the administrator rights, or
you can COPY the files to a location that you have created yourself.

Set up a different folder for Celestia and simply copy all the original
files to the new folder. That is if you can.

New ground here, so I'm still trying to figure this stuff out. Chris'
software wants to retain its OWN authorities when you install it, and
that creates these problems. You can get around it, but it takes some
work.

Hope that helps a little bit.

Thanks, Brain-Dead

again a mirror for europe celestians

http://www.purebytes.de/stuff/celestia/ ... .0pre5.exe

BobHegwood wrote:The administrator rights are caused by the installation itself on my
Vista machine. The only way to fix it is to either reset the permissions
which you cannot do unless you HAVE the administrator rights, or
you can COPY the files to a location that you have created yourself.

Set up a different folder for Celestia and simply copy all the original
files to the new folder. That is if you can.

New ground here, so I'm still trying to figure this stuff out. Chris'
software wants to retain its OWN authorities when you install it, and
that creates these problems. You can get around it, but it takes some
work.

Hope that helps a little bit.

Isn't it possible to just change the install directory on Vista from the default 'c:\program files\celestia' to a user directory like 'c:\users\bobhegwood\application data'? I've done some research that suggests Program Files is still the preferred install location for applications in Vista. Or is the real problem with add-ons? It's probably not a good idea that Celestia's extras folder is in Program Files instead of the user's application data folder. I think . . .

--Chris

chris wrote:Isn't it possible to just change the install directory on Vista from the default 'c:\program files\celestia' to a user directory like 'c:\users\bobhegwood\application data'? I've done some research that suggests Program Files is still the preferred install location for applications in Vista. Or is the real problem with add-ons? It's probably not a good idea that Celestia's extras folder is in Program Files instead of the user's application data folder. I think . . .

--Chris

Chris,

If I install Celestia to the normal Program Files\Celestia directory,
ALL of the files inside that directory retain the permissions from your
software. This includes all SSC files inside the data directory, all
textures inside the textures\medres directory, etc.

If I delete the Celestia\textures\medres directory and then create
my own in the same place, then I have no more permission
problems. As I said, I still don't have these problems quite
resolved yet, but the only real solution I have been able to
implement consistently, is to sign on as the administrator, and
then edit all permissions entries so that I can freely copy and
paste the files inside Celestia. In other words, the default
cannot be changed by the user unless he or she IS the owner
and/or administrator of the machine. Strange I know, but this
problem is related to "inherited permissions" in Vista.

If I create all of the Celestia directories myself, and then copy
your programs and files enmasse to the new folders, the problem
also goes away because the new folders no longer include the
inherited permissions.

Does this help at all? Changing the installation directory does
NOT change the permissions problem. It's caused by the Vista
installation process itself as far as I can tell.

Thanks, Bob

The administrator rights are caused by the installation itself on my

No No Bob, I was taking about a regular windowsXP
system where the admin rights suddenly are required.
On my Vista system at home, there was no trouble installing
latest Celestia-pack
Any thoughts ??
Ren?©

Ren?©,

The way you phrased it, that it works on your Vista system at home, implies that the XP system is not at home, perhaps is at work.

If the system is centrally administered, the group security profiles and/or directory protections might have been changed recently to keep people from downloading and unintentionally installing malware.

I still have labels displayed on Earth when looking at some on the Moon;
I don't remember if labels wasn't supposed to be on the selected object only... Anyway, someone confirm?

Selden ,

If the system is centrally administered, the group security profiles and/or directory protections might have been changed recently to keep people from downloading and unintentionally installing malware.

Yes, at our office we do have group policies and such,
but this fact is not very likely to contribute to the installer problems
given the fact that I can install previous releases
(I tried celestia-win32-1.5.0pre2.exe)
without a problem.

Ren?©