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I am bit worried about the lack of interest of same developers and the constant hacking and instability.I am concerned of the possibility of the death of Celestia.The addons are very slowly being released,in a rate much more slower than some months before.And because a program survive and developed with new things,I am worried about the stagnation of Celestia,the first step to the cancellation of the program.
I was misunderstood,i was not pressing people to do things.I am only realizing some characteristics tipical of many kind of programs,experimentos and other such things.First,the lack of interest,then the stagnation and then the end of program as we know.Either the program disappear or become a paid one.
I suppose that I??m not offending anyone.And I would like to confess that I am a bit hiperactive and anxious;this explains the constant "complains"
What do you think about it?

I really don't see any lack of interest in development at all. Work continues on new program versions, new add-ons are constantly being released, the forum is as active as ever...

I think you're worried over nothing. Don't translate items such as taking a break from a project, silence while working on a project, or even the standard problems of Internet born hacking and spamming as the crumblings of a foundation.

Ride it out; it's a thrilling trip so far!

...John...

I agree, there are still plenty of new addons being made, such as my Proxima Centauri system, Kikinho is also making a new addon and Cham is trying to make another black hole. I would say Celestia has at least 5 more years left in it yet, but it won't last forever. Enjoy it while you can!

Michael Kilderry

If a slowing of major Celestia development has got you down, there's always the fun of tweaking it yourself to accommodate new scientific discoveries.

I've been following the Cassini Saturn mission closely and am amazed at the speed at which Steve Albers is able to incorporate new images into his moon maps-- his Iapetus includes most of the highest-resolution new imagery from the New Year's flyby, and his Enceladus map already includes a couple of pictures downloaded from Saturn last week.

(He's making these maps for another purpose, and they have to be offset 180 degrees in longitude to become truly Celestia-compatible, something that is easy to do in most image editors. Some of them also may need to be resized to a power of 2 in dimensions, though most of them are 2k textures. I'd offer to transform them into Motherlode add-ons with his permission, but they are improving so rapidly that any Celestia conversion would be out of date within days-- at the moment it's probably better to hold off for a while.)

As Cassini makes new discoveries and I pull maps off Steve's site, it's as if the level of detail in Celestia's Saturn system improves on a monthly basis.

20/2/2005 Dione
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18/2/2005 Enceladus
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16/2/2005 Iapetus
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Yes, development on Celestia has slowed recently, but it's not dying. I've been busy snowboarding and taking a mountaineering course, so my time for Celestia has been limited. Nevertheless, I'm back at work on a major improvement to mesh rendering, extrasolar.ssc has been updated with the latest discoveries, there's the new web site, and most importantly there are lots of new add-ons from forum members.

--Chris

Hi Chris,

I think you have not to justify you.
That will be with many (many) regrets for all of us if you stop to improve Celestia but it's your program and it's free ! so you can do what you want with it.

Have good free rides

jdou

chris wrote:Yes, development on Celestia has slowed recently, but it's not dying. I've been busy snowboarding and taking a mountaineering course, so my time for Celestia has been limited. Nevertheless, I'm back at work on a major improvement to mesh rendering, extrasolar.ssc has been updated with the latest discoveries, there's the new web site, and most importantly there are lots of new add-ons from forum members.

--Chris

Yes, and taking a break from a project like Celestia can mean coming back to it with refreshened enthusiasm.

Keep up the good work Chris.

Michael Kilderry

And let's face it, getting out and about in the great outdoors is much better for you than spending all your time chained to a computer .

I've been busy snowboarding and taking a mountaineering course, so my time

good for you i've alwayes wanted to taking a mountaineering course
and it dose feel nice to get away from this confounded machine

You gotta take a break sometime!