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A Windows binary package for the first 1.5.1 release candidate is available here:

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... 5.1rc1.exe

This build was created from the ver1_5_1 branch, revision 4216.

1.5.1 is a translation and bug fix release. Many of the translations were not ready when 1.5.0 was release, whereas 1.5.1 features complete translations. There are no new features in 1.5.1. The features that were described as being in 1.5.1 will be in 1.6.0. This is simply a renaming: no development has been postponed. Selden has updated the WikiBook to reflect the new naming: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/160Features

Most of the credit for the 1.5.1 release should go to Christophe Teyssier, who has been organizing the Celestia translation effort for years, and who also took care of creating the 1.5.1 branch and backporting bug fixes from the trunk. Thank you!

Here is the ChangeLog:



--Chris

Thanks. Looking at the planned features for version 1.6, I see two features that I am definitely looking forward to: object timelines (no longer need three versions of Saturn and Jupiter!!!) and secondary illumination.

Thank goodness you added Japanese fonts!

So, does it mean I can use cyrillic and hiragana in ssc files, and name, for example, soviet spaceships in cyrillic? It never worked before...
By the way, how to use all those translated versions of Celestia, which are in "locale" folder? I can't find any option of changing the language in the program...

Reiko, anata no eigo wa sugoi desu yo! douzo yoroshiku Porando kara

Tomasz M. Bladyniec wrote:So, does it mean I can use cyrillic and hiragana in ssc files, and name, for example, soviet spaceships in cyrillic? It never worked before...
By the way, how to use all those translated versions of Celestia, which are in "locale" folder? I can't find any option of changing the language in the program...

Reiko, anata no eigo wa sugoi desu yo! douzo yoroshiku Porando kara

Celestia uses pre-rendered textures to render fonts, so to be able to use a given script in ssc files you need to use a font texture which includes those characters.

In 1.5.1 we ship alternative textures for the supported non latin languages and the correct texture is loaded automaticaly at startup. It is still possible to force a given texture file by setting it in celestia.cfg. And you can create your own texture fonts using my online tool for example.

To select an alternate language you need to set le LANGUAGE environment variable before launching Celestia, you can do this from a command prompt or you can create a bat file. If you need more details on this you can search the forums, this as been discussed before.

Christophe wrote:In 1.5.1 we ship alternative textures for the supported non latin languages .....

Christophe, regarding fonts, could it be possible to have a set of bigger fonts, e.g. clean and cleanbold 14-20 (actually 12-16), and sans and sansbold 18-24 (actually 14-20)?
This to improve the importance of titles in our .cel scripts that, if I'm right, can be changed only chosing them in the .cfg file (and this perhaps could be another possible request to m3ntol, i.e. to create a .cel command line that may allow the use of different fonts from the scripts).
Many thanks, Christophe.
Bye

Andrea

What?s the diference between RC1 and SVN r4225?

danielj wrote:What?s the diference between RC1 and SVN r4225?

As you can read in Chris' announcement, the RC1 version of the 1.5.1 Windows binary distribution corresponded to the SVN revision 4216. Each code change in the SVN development repository increases that number by 1!

The SVN revision 4225 is obviously more recent, since that number is higher than 4216.

Got it?

F.

PS: can we congratulate to your master examination that you told us took place end of February?

i just downloaded this patch, and created a dual star system outside the 16k limit! only bug is with my system, is that i can see the stars from OUTSIDE THE GALAXY! (i don't know if this is supposed to happen or not...)

So the SVN is a build of Celestia 1.5.1 RC 1?
Is the Celestia 1.5.1 RC1 analogous to Celestia 1.5.1 pre?Or will we have a Celestia 1.5.1 pre soon?

danielj wrote:So the SVN is a build of Celestia 1.5.1 RC 1?
Is the Celestia 1.5.1 RC1 analogous to Celestia 1.5.1 pre?Or will we have a Celestia 1.5.1 pre soon?

No daniel, it is the other way round.

Celestia 1.5.1 RC 1 is a build out of the SVN. The SVN is where the source code of Celestia is stored.

Any change to this source code increases now the SVN number. So since Celestia 1.5.1 RC 1 was built with SVN number 4216 and the code in the SVN has now the number 4225 (or even higher), this means that at least 10 new funcions or changes have been made to the code since Celestia 1.5.1 RC 1 was built.

Celestia 1.5.1 RC 1 IS analogous to Celestia 1.5.1 pre!

In normal software development there is always a RC (Release Candidate) before the final version. In Celestia these were up to now named "pre".

So --> RC == pre

Regards,

Guckytos

Not sure about this, but would it be possible to include my revised version of z-dist.celx, which corrects a couple of minor bugs in the script's functionality?