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Hello Guys!

Im from Germany and after a long search in the Internet i found this little but amazing programm!
I was searching for a way to flim a flight throug the universum to earth and to zoom to Sydney! (I need that for my holiday video for the mother of my girlfriend:))!

I downloaded it and tried a little bit!
Iam not an computer expert!
Then i read the Guide in german because of the addons! But i haven?t found something that helpt me!

So, I hope you can help me!

I need an addon where i can zoom to earth an to a city! I found screenshots but not a link to download it!

AND i don?t come along whith all the files! I dont konw where to put them! :

Maybe you can help me a little bit! I read the helping guide on this side but i don?t realy understand how to manage that!

Thanks a lot! I know someone could say search through the whole Internet and get the Information by your self but i am so busy to cut the Videos (it?s 6 hours viedo material) and must hurry because this video was a gift for CHRISMAS! (but we came back from Australia in Mai) !
So would be so kind if you guys could help a stupid german man!

You will need the 32k (or 64k) Earth VT - search for this keyword here in the forum or look at celestia motherlode. To get Sydney for a sharp hires closeup you will still have to do some handwork in adding some hires air photograph to this VT. I think such a hires closeup was already made for Boston (an extra addon to the VT), so you can look there how it looks like.

maxim

Hi!
THX for your help!

I surfed around and found boston and new York!

But not Sydney! Is there any map of Sydney around here?

And another question is: If i have a better grafic card would the grafic automaticly be better because i not find any otions to optimize the grafic?

THX

Garfild44

Hi Garfild,there is a 374Mb ecw file of part of Sydney here
http://earthetc.com/imagery_list.aspx?ETC_LOCATION_ID=5
click on Sydney airphoto,you will need to install ecw plugin first then you can find the URL from clicking on 'About' and download the whole image.You can read ecw files in most mapping programs,or in Photoshop if you download a plugin for it.I think it is probably too detailed though (and only a small part of Sydney) for Celestia,unless you display it on a model (billboard) as Selden suggests on his site,Jestr

Wow. that picture is really awesome! Damnit. I wished we had detailed images like that of the entire world.