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I am making large surface maps of mars venus earth and moon and flying over the surface. To makes it more useful heres my dream list.

Add to the information printout a longitude and latitude read out when i fly around with my joy stick im blind till i check with Go to object.

add location labels/web links on planet surfaces that can be used for crater, mountians, valleys, landing sites or cities. With links that rotate with planet surface you could even use a celestia planet as a photo finder to all the nasa probe pictures. A few years ago I bought red shift 2 and their map or earth and mars was well labeled but their surface texture sucked. Now with celestia with large texture i see all this detail but have no labels of surface features. It would be nice if these links could be user added similair to locations (when i used locations if I came back another day my location had moved not sure how i got lost in space with that.)

Could some one make a longitude latitude grid map that could be used with a cloud layer or add a button in view options for grids of diffrent size grids. I seem to recall seeing some grids on an earlier version

Add Gravity to the planets with an on off switch. i had fun flying in open universe with gravity on

well thats my wish list I have found Celestia to be wonderful THANKS CHRIS AND ALL WHO HAVE HELPED
With surface label links I see celestia as being a GREAT GREAT web space photo interface No more wow thats a cool nasa photo where the hell am. I

carolinaguyyyy wrote:Could some one make a longitude latitude grid map that could be used with a cloud layer or add a button in view options for grids of diffrent size grids. I seem to recall seeing some grids on an earlier version

All you would have to do is make a texture that is nothing but a grid with a blank background and edit the solarsys.ssc file and add in a second cloud layer (this is just a theory, but I think it should work) and if it doesnt work, just edit the earthclouds.png and put a grid in the file. That should work too.


Mike M.