Pioneer and Voyager craft please!!!

The place to discuss creating, porting and modifying Celestia's source code.
Post Reply
Topic author
itec_man

Pioneer and Voyager craft please!!!

Post #1by itec_man » 18.05.2002, 22:23

I think it would be very cool to be able to visit and track these interstellar craft (especially following them with accellerated time and see which systems they get close to - not sure if Celestia takes account of rotation of the Milky Way, gravity etc...) either way it would be nice!

Also, my 3 year old son and I would like to thank the creators and contributors of this wonderful program, which we have only just discovered... :D enabling non-mega rich ordinary folk to soar among the stars as virtual space tourists, in a small way you have fulfilled a lifelong ambition of mine and will fill my boy's head with wonder... the Open Source community Rocks! Keep up the superb work
Top
shrox
Posts: 26
Joined: 14.02.2002
With us: 23 years
Location: Eureka

Post #2by shrox » 19.05.2002, 06:13

Just hang on! I'll get to them!
Shrox
Quaker of Tomorrow
Top
Vicware
Posts: 120
Joined: 23.02.2002
With us: 22 years 11 months
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Soho and more...

Post #3by Vicware » 19.05.2002, 08:30

shrox wrote:Just hang on! I'll get to them!


I would love to help you Shrox - i.e. I've been wanting to model Soho,
which has that very interesting orbit between Earth and the Sun. I
actually found an excellent max model (but I lost the url for it - looking).

The problem is rent-paying - wish I had more time.

Vic
Top
grylor

voyager

Post #4by grylor » 05.06.2002, 14:42

Hi all
I have Voyager spacraft model in 3ds format, tomorrow i will upload it a givu you the link. I hope, i will be useful :)

grylor@email.cz
Top
shrox
Posts: 26
Joined: 14.02.2002
With us: 23 years
Location: Eureka

grylor's voyager model

Post #5by shrox » 05.06.2002, 15:59

I have just been waiting for Celestia to make friends with my video card...
Yes, post a link and I'll look at it. Someone probably has the orbital info on it. Is this one you or someone you know made?

Shrox
Shrox

Quaker of Tomorrow
Top
grylor
Posts: 2
Joined: 05.06.2002
With us: 22 years 8 months
Location: Slovakia
Contact:
Contact grylor

voyager

Post #6by grylor » 07.06.2002, 10:23

Hi

you can download Voyager model (3ds) from this page:

http://www.darkstar.sk/3d.html


grylor
Top
Kendrix
Posts: 159
Joined: 02.06.2002
With us: 22 years 8 months
Location: near Paris, France
Contact:
Contact Kendrix

Great !

Post #7by Kendrix » 07.06.2002, 14:26

I had only it in POV format... !

I have send to Chris the orbital data...

I will try to add Voyager this Week end !
Top
shrox
Posts: 26
Joined: 14.02.2002
With us: 23 years
Location: Eureka

Post #8by shrox » 09.06.2002, 21:23

The model isn't really Voyager, kind of a composite of Voyager and Pioneer. I guess I will finish my probes, wonder when I will get to see them...
Shrox

Quaker of Tomorrow
Top
Kendrix
Posts: 159
Joined: 02.06.2002
With us: 22 years 8 months
Location: near Paris, France
Contact:
Contact Kendrix

Kendrix

Post #9by Kendrix » 09.06.2002, 21:25

I agree you shrox !

The one I got in POV is PERFECT !!!

But I don't know how to convert it in .3ds ! :o(((
Top
Klaus Stock

POV->3DS

Post #10by Klaus Stock » 18.06.2002, 07:50

Kendrix wrote:The one I got in POV is PERFECT !!!

But I don't know how to convert it in .3ds ! :o(((


It's almost impossible to convert POV-Files to other formats, as a POV source is a program, not just geometrical data. It requires a complete parser to parse a POV file, and there is only one parser which can do this right now - this is POVRAY itself.

However, some guy wrote a patch for some version of POVRAY which added an option to output the compiled object tree from POVRAY to a file (http://www.tb-software.com/products.html). Unfortunately, there is still no converter which takes a POB-file and comverts it to 3DS....
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Development”