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Celestia unexpectedly closes when I magnify in on a planet-host star. This occurs for Sol, HD 69830, and Gliese 581, but not Algol, and other such single stars. So it seems planet-host stars are affected. I don't know what's going on. Can anyone else replicate this bug?

Hungry4info wrote:Can anyone else replicate this bug?

Works just fine for me.

Hungry,

You'll have to define exactly what you mean by "magnify in". Please provide the exact steps needed to cause the crash, starting from "Run Celestia". e.g "wait to get to Earth", etc.

1) Open Celestia.
-- After completely open --
2) [enter]
3) Type "HD 69830" (or any planet-bearing star)
4) [enter]
5) [g]
-- After arrival --
6) Hold down shift and move mouse "up". Continue as far as allowed.
-- Celestia dies x_X --

Hungry,

Just followed your instruction exactly, and had absolutely NO
problems with this process. Just FYI...

EDIT: I DID notice that the star has DUPLICATE
planets though... Is this just on my system? See two a's, two b's and
two c's... Maybe this has something to do with the problem?

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the failure.

System:
2GB 1.86GHz 6300 Core2Duo, Win XP Pro, SP2
128MB Quadro FX 550, ForceWare v162.62
Celestia v1.5.0, and from svn
Display: 1920x1200

Tried both windowed and full screen modes, as well as the various render paths and star styles, with orbit paths drawn and not drawn.

Maybe it's related to some other render option being turned on.

Bob,

I'm not seeing double planets, so I suspect your copy of Celestia is discovering two copies of exoplanets.ssc

selden wrote:
Bob,

I'm not seeing double planets, so I suspect your copy of Celestia is discovering two copies of exoplanets.ssc

Okay, as always Selden thanks very much for your help. I'll have a
look.

BobHegwood wrote:...two a's...

The planets should be labelled b,c,d... there shouldn't be any planets labelled "a" in that system...

ajtribick wrote:
The planets should be labelled b,c,d... there shouldn't be any planets labelled "a" in that system...

Yeah, my fault for typing in a hurry. I found the offending add-on
and removed the duplicate SSC definitions so this obviously has
nothing to do with Hungry's problems here.

Don't know what else to suggest.

Thanks, Brain-Dead

I'll re-download and re-install Celestia 1.5.0 later, perhaps that shall fix the problem.