Star Distances

Tharghana · Post #1by **Tharghana** » 04.01.2008, 17:53

I am working on a Add-on, for this add-on I need to be able to put things out the star distence barrier, other wise they are just invislbe. Can you tell if there is a way to disable/change the distence limiations?

Post #2by **selden** » 04.01.2008, 18:09

Sorry, there's no way around the ~16KLY distance limitation for positioning stars and their planets until Celestia's source code is upgraded. The precision of the 128bit arithmetic that it uses simply isn't good enough. The current hope is that a future major revision of Celestia will support the use of multiple coordinate systems so that distant stars and planets will be positioned relative to the closest such origin.

However, you might consider defining your objects as DSC Nebula objects. They can be placed at arbitrary distances, although they won't move.

Tharghana · Post #3by **Tharghana** » 04.01.2008, 21:24

Could you put a 3d model more then 16kLY?

Post #4by **t00fri** » 04.01.2008, 21:35

will we have to "enjoy" this ridiculous "kingsize" monster each time you write a post?

Incidentally, is it free of Copyrights??

Bye Fridger

Tharghana · Post #5by **Tharghana** » 04.01.2008, 21:59

Sorry let me edit that image. I'll make alot smaller.

Post #6by **selden** » 04.01.2008, 22:00

Tharghana wrote:Could you put a 3d model more then 16kLY?

Yes: that's what I was trying to say when I wrote

However, you might consider defining your objects as DSC Nebula objects. They can be placed at arbitrary distances, although they won't move.

Please read the documentation about DSC files and Mesh declarations. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/DSC_File

More information about Addons is available at http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... intro.html

Tharghana · Post #7by **Tharghana** » 04.01.2008, 22:10

You should check out my Add-on, cuse thats where all the the images of It are, its called "Halo Universe Add-on".

Tharghana · Post #8by **Tharghana** » 04.01.2008, 22:21

Thanks for the tip.

rthorvald · Post #9by **rthorvald** » 04.01.2008, 22:42

Tharghana wrote:Sorry let me edit that image. I'll make alot smaller.

Hm... I think it is time to roll out my *big* avatar again. Must sign all my messages with it from now on ;-)

- rthorvald
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Post #10by **t00fri** » 04.01.2008, 22:47

Runar,

at least you deserve this big size ;-)

. Have a look at this Halo Universe...I would vote for a much much smaller 'monster'...

Bye Fridger

Vincent · Post #11by **Vincent** » 04.01.2008, 23:16

Really funny atmosphere tonight on the forum !

Hungry4info · Post #12by **Hungry4info** » 05.01.2008, 03:09

t00fri wrote:will we have to "enjoy" this ridiculous "kingsize" monster each time you write a post?

Yeah, first time I saw that I was immediately given a freightening view into the future, of seeing that everywhere, along with being rather large.

Tharghana,
No offense, but it's rather obnoxiously large, and it could be replaced with something more productive, perhaps ... your computer specs?