Post #22by Chuft-Captain » 30.11.2017, 10:54
I understand. You moved your asteroids project to the "Catalogs" folder???
I should clarify that when I said that "Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets belong in the "catalogs" folder ...", I only refer to the core set of objects which are always "distributed" with an official Celestia release (mostly well known major objects whose information is very well known and is created and maintained by the development team.)
Any user of course is free to make their own fictional or realistic "addons" which may extend the default set of Solar System objects, and addons can include any sort of object ... Planets, Moons, Asteroids, Comets Spacecraft, etc. The correct location however for these "addons" is the "extras" folder.
The "Catalogs" folder is subject to a limited and strictly defined "manual" load process which only loads files which are explicitly specified.
This is the reason that your project is ignored when you move it into that folder. I think the discussion in this thread confused you, but this is a narrow discussion which is only about the structure of the official release version of Celestia, and is relevant only to a very limited set of files maintained by the DEV team (which is why it is posted in the "Development" forum ).
The discussion here IS NOT related to user created addons.
Your Project Celestia Origin is an "addon", so it belongs NOT in "catalogs" or "data", but in "extras".
If you return your project to the extras folder, then all your files will once again be loaded and work again.
Again, "Catalogs" folder is for the developers work, but NOT for addon projects.
Unless you really know what you are doing, you should never change anything in the "Catalogs" folder (or the "data" folder) ... or put any of your own projects in that folder. (In fact I would recommend making it READONLY).
Hope this clears up the confusion.
CC
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Chuft-Captain on 01.12.2017, 05:22, edited 2 times in total.
