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Pioneer and Voyager craft please!!!
Posted: 18.05.2002, 22:23
by itec_man
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...
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
Posted: 19.05.2002, 06:13
by shrox
Just hang on! I'll get to them!
Soho and more...
Posted: 19.05.2002, 08:30
by Vicware
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
voyager
Posted: 05.06.2002, 14:42
by grylor
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
grylor's voyager model
Posted: 05.06.2002, 15:59
by shrox
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
voyager
Posted: 07.06.2002, 10:23
by grylor
Hi
you can download Voyager model (3ds) from this page:
http://www.darkstar.sk/3d.html
grylor
Great !
Posted: 07.06.2002, 14:26
by Kendrix
I had only it in POV format... !
I have send to Chris the orbital data...
I will try to add Voyager this Week end !
Posted: 09.06.2002, 21:23
by shrox
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...
Kendrix
Posted: 09.06.2002, 21:25
by Kendrix
I agree you shrox !
The one I got in POV is PERFECT !!!
But I don't know how to convert it in .3ds ! :o(((
POV->3DS
Posted: 18.06.2002, 07:50
by Klaus Stock
Kendrix wrote:The one I got in POV is PERFECT !!!
But I don't know how to convert it in .3ds !
(((
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....