Starting From Scratch

[Dollan]

Hey folks...

After basically just playing around with Celestia, and slowly learning what it runs like on this old outdated system of mine, I'm ready to begin the next stage of my exploration in earnest. I'm working on a sci fi setting (located here, if you'll pardon the shameless plug: http://www.onewest.net/~dollan/wbarc.html ), and I have plans for quite a number of star systems (http://www.onewest.net/~dollan/ARCworldsindex.html ). Basically, I would like to incorporate these into Celestia.

Rather than spend forever searching through here, looking for what I need, can anyone point me out to a primer, perhpas, of how to begin inputting my own solar systems? Or, perhpas there is a utility program I could use that would help in this?

Thanks for any replies I get; I'll be gone for about a week because of vacation, but when I get back I hope to start hitting the tutorials hard so I can get started on the project. Once I am fairly confident about creating my own realistic systems, I can start working on creating my own textures!

Merry Christmas, all!

...John...

[selden]

John,

One place to start might be http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html. It provides a few examples as well as links to other pages that have more details.

[Dollan]

Thanks for the link, Selden!

...John...

John,

One place to start might be http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/addon-intro.html. It provides a few examples as well as links to other pages that have more details.

[selden]

You're quite welcome.

It just shows how addons work, though. It doesn't include instructions on how to build a solar system with valid orbits and planetary types. That's another tutorial for another day

[bh]

I have to plug (again) Rassilons cluster generator...not only star systems but planetary systems within!!...You do need to do a lot of editing with notepad but the results are well worth the effort.

Regards...bh.