Celestia v1.6 - Available ??? / Where ???

[CurlSnout]

Stupid question time. Been away for quite a while; I see many talking about Cel. 1.6 this and Cel. 1.6 that. I'm still moving stuff from v1.4 to v 1.5.1. Downloaded the new Mercury models (Freedom 7 and Friendship 7 courtesy of James Bassett and ElChristou) and can't get them to show up in v1.5.1. Documentation says that they are compatible with v1.6 and later; I'm assuming that I need v1.6. I have looked, and cannot find a link for downloading v1.6. I feel like I'm ovelooking the obvious (not the first or the last time). Can someone assist?

Thanks in any case,

cs

[cartrite]

Version 1.6 is not out yet. But members of Celestia's community are building development versions that will become version 1.6 soon.
If you are a MAC user, try here.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13449
If you use a Windows operating system, try here. http://cabfst28.cnea.gov.ar/~abramson/celestia/svnexec/
If you are a Linux user, you have to build the SVN version yourself.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/D ... x_platform
cartrite

[selden]

CurlSnout,

If you want to admire the models in Celestia v1.5.1, only one line needs to be changed in each of their SSC files. Specifically, replace the FixedPosition lines by comparable LongLat statements.
For example, in Freedom7.ssc

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#        FixedPosition      { Planetographic [ -80.31 28.41 46 ] }
    LongLat [ -80.31 28.41 46 ]


Note that this only makes the models visible. The scripts still won't work. They depend on features available only in v1.6. The above change also is inappropriate for v1.6. LongLat does not interact correctly with the Frame statements.

[ElChristou]

CurlSnout,

If you want to admire the models in Celestia v1.5.1, only one line needs to be changed in each of their SSC files. Specifically, replace the FixedPosition lines by comparable LongLat statements.
For example, in Freedom7.ssc

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#        FixedPosition      { Planetographic [ -80.31 28.41 46 ] }
    LongLat [ -80.31 28.41 46 ]


Note that this only makes the models visible. The scripts still won't work. They depend on features available only in v1.6. The above change also is inappropriate for v1.6. LongLat does not interact correctly with the Frame statements.

Concerning the Mercury models, I strongly suggest CurlSnout to get a 1.6 because of the scripts; also I will provide in a while a trajectory and new ssc for both models (all for 1.6 and later)

[CurlSnout]

Thanks to everyone who has replied in ultra-quick fashion and supplied helpful information. I'm looking forward to implementing the suggestions and getting things working when I return to my home machine later today. The new Mercury models look to be outstanding.

Again, thanks to all.

cs