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Working with keyboards of different nationalities, some symbols proposed in Celestia 1.3.1 are not present.

As an example the two symbols:

{ ................ Ambient Light (Decrease)
} ................ Ambient Light (Increase)

are not present on some no English/US keyboards.

Is there a backdoor ?
How can increase or decrease the Ambient Light without having "{" and "}" ?

Regarding this issue, I also found this minor bug in the Celestia_userguide-1.1a.doc

[ If autoMag OFF: Decrease magnitude (fewer stars visible)
If autoMag ON: Decrease magnitude at 45 deg field of view
] If autoMag OFF: Increase magnitude (more stars visible)
If autoMag ON: Increase magnitude at 45 deg field of view
[ Decrease ambient illumination
] Increase ambient illumination

as you see "{" and "}" have been replied by "[" and "]".

Thanks Carlo

Hello Carlo,

Thank you for pointing this out. I do not currently know of a workaround except to use a Character Map type of applet (one comes free with Windows).

The Celestia keyboard assignments are currently undergoing some changes, so I hope this is taken into consideration.

As to the manual, Frank G. wrote it and maintains it, so I sent him a link to this topic. Thank you.

Cheers,

-Don G.

Carlo:

Thanks for the tip about a possible minor error in the Guide. I'll look into it.

Regarding the ambient light, you can adjust it without a keyboard command simply by using the "Render" menu at the top of Celestia. Pull down the Render menu by left-clicking on it, and "ambient light" will be a menu choice. You can select between "none", "low" and "medium light". personally, I prefer "none", since space has very deep shadows and "none" is the most realistic choice of background lighting.

Regards,

Frank G

Carlo,

If you can't get to what you want in any other way, you can also modify the "start.cel" script - located in the main Celestia directory - in order to get the ambient light-levels you want.

Example: set { name "AmbientLightLevel" value 0.50 }

Simply add the above line to your start.cel script using notepad, or whatever text editor you use. If .50 isn't what you want, simply put whatever value you DO want in there.

Except that if you don't have braces {} then that ain't gonna help worth a damn is it?

Oh well, I tried.

Take care, Bob