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Hey, I have an issue with my code. I've set up a .STC file to make several of the known binary extrasolar systems as binary in Celestia, and I can't get HD 114729 to work =(. Every time I select it either by pressing

'Enter'
Type: "HD 114729"'
'Enter'

Or by going to it in the star navigation, Celestia immediately closes. I'm guessing it's just something wrong with my .stc, probably something really obvious... but I can't figure it out. I've rewritten it twice now =S.

I'd guess this is a conflict between the name and catalog parsing...

The barycenter is associated with the name "HD 114729"
Component A is associated with the Hipparcos number 64459, which is associated with the HD number 114729.

Workaround: give the barycenter the HIP number:



(note you will now have to edit extrasolar.ssc to put the planet around the right star)

Ah, thank-you very much! That did indeed fix the issue.

I am still curious though, why did my code not work? If I understand why something didn't work, I may know how to avoid it in the future.

Also, none of the stars defined in the .stc file are textured. The path to the .stc is

extras/ExoPlanets/Stars.stc

I tried sticking the star textures in a extras/ExoPlanets/textures/lores directory, but that did not fix it. Any ideas?

Celestia closes because of a bug in its code.
You can avoid the problem by reporting it so that Chris can fix it.

STC Texture files must be in /medres/

Hungry4info: you claim in your sig to be using Celestia 1.5.0, the untextured stars problem is a known bug in that version. I suggest upgrading to 1.5.1.

ajtribick wrote:Hungry4info: you claim in your sig to be using Celestia 1.5.0, the untextured stars problem is a known bug in that version. I suggest upgrading to 1.5.1.

Even so, the Addon's /medres/ directory must be used. lores and hires are not searched for STC textures.