celestia seems to have died

[guest]

yep....using Windows XP Home,AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 112 MB DDR, onboard video with 16 MB ram. It was working fine (actually pretty awesome) until a few hours ago. I opened it and nothing happened, despite the fact that "celestia.exe" still shows up in the Task Manager(using 99% CPU).

[don]

Howdy,

Using an editor that can view plain text files (Notepad, Wordpad, Word), take a look at the start.cel file in the Celestia folder/directory. It should look like the following:

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{
   select { object "Sol/Jupiter/Io" }
   follow {}
   goto { time 5 }

   # Mark samples
   # mark { object "Sol/Mercury" color [ 1 1 0 ] symbol "triangle" }
   # mark { object "Sol/Venus" color [ 1 1 0.7 ] symbol "square" }
   # mark { object "Sol/Earth" color [ 0 0.3 1 ] symbol "x" }
   # mark { object "Sol/Mars" color [ 1 0.3 0.3 ] symbol "plus" }

   # gotolonglat { time 0 distance 1e11 longitude 0 latitude 0 }
   # gotolonglat { time 0 distance 2.5 longitude -122 latitude 47 } # Seattle!
   # wait { duration 0.1 }
   # orbit { axis [ 0 1 0 ] rate 10 duration 7 }
   # goto { time 5 distance 10 }
   # wait { duration 5.0 }
}

If it doesn't look like this, then change it so the un-commented lines are the only ones in your file and save it, or just copy and paste the above code. A comment line begins with the "#" character.

If it does look like the above example, then hopefully someone else will have some ideas.

Have you tried un-installing Celestia and then re-installing it? One of it's other files *might* have become corrupt. Just a thought.

Good luck!

-Don

[guest]

yeah, i uninstalled it, restarted the comp, then installed it again. no change. Might it have something to do with that i was fiddling with textures when it died? i was making my own star system.

[don]

I've not experimented with textures or creating new objects, so I can't say for sure. Hopefully someone who has done these things will help out (smile).

[guest]

here it is, i typed:
Texture "planet4.bmp
instead of:
Texture "planet4.bmp"
i forgot the "
i'm such an idiot!! haha

[Darkmiss]

yeah i noticed this a few weeks ago when editing stuff
a small mistake in the solasys.ssc makes the program not load at all ?

is this a bug or has it been made to do this

Chris are you still working on that event logger so we might be able to read a text file to see what went wrong

[don]

here it is, i typed:
Texture "planet4.bmp
instead of:
Texture "planet4.bmp"
i forgot the "
i'm such an idiot!! haha

Good detective work!

Glad you figured it out.

[John Van Vliet]

Hi i have noticed that about 90% of the time the problem is a " missing or a {
missing also DONT use Microsoft 's DxTex.exe(version 4.9.0.900)
Celestia crashes .I use dxtex4.7.0.700.exe for my clouds