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Is there a way to turn star brightness down?

Posted: 07.07.2005, 18:18
by TourqeGlare
I was looking at Celestia's guts
(shaders and Data folder)
and was interested in learning
if a stars brightness was as toggable
as most add-ons coordinates and such.
(Does this make sense?)

Re: Is there a way to turn star brightness down?

Posted: 07.07.2005, 20:25
by t00fri
TourqeGlare wrote:I was looking at Celestia's guts
(shaders and Data folder)
and was interested in learning
if a stars brightness was as toggable
as most add-ons coordinates and such.
(Does this make sense?)


Only The Lord can turn star brightness down to fit your needs ;-)

What Celestia can do is rather to lower the observer's sensitivity to star light. That however cuts down on the maximal visible magnitude. Just try it out: the key [ lowers while ] rises the sensitivity. There are some differences in the behaviour depending on whether automag (CTRL+y) is ON or OFF.

Another possible variation of /effective/ star brightness comes through pushing CTRL+s repeatedly...

But since you surely have studied and learned by heart ALL Celestia shortcut keys I am just boring you... ;-)

Bye Fridger

Re: Is there a way to turn star brightness down?

Posted: 07.07.2005, 20:29
by TourqeGlare
t00fri wrote: But since you surely have studied and learned by heart ALL Celestia shortcut keys I am just boring you... ;-)



That helped alot actually!
Thanks. :)
But I meant modifying the source code or something.