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celestia seems to have died
Posted: 19.07.2003, 03:26
by 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).
Posted: 19.07.2003, 03:38
by 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
Posted: 19.07.2003, 03:49
by 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.
Posted: 19.07.2003, 03:58
by 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).
found the prob
Posted: 19.07.2003, 06:08
by guest
here it is, i typed:
Texture "planet4.bmp
instead of:
Texture "planet4.bmp"
i forgot the "
i'm such an idiot!! haha
Posted: 19.07.2003, 08:23
by 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
Re: found the prob
Posted: 19.07.2003, 17:09
by don
guest wrote: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.
re
Posted: 20.07.2003, 03:49
by 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