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Suggest/request:

1. Some form of visible spatial grid(s) or coordinate system(s) that can show your XYZ or distance/bearing from Sol.

2. Some form of HUD showing your current positional data, bearing, perhaps a line toward Sol and possibly other locations.

3. Possibly a list of "20 nearest stars" to your current position.

4. A modification to movement system where you can turn your viewpoint by a set number of degrees by keystroke or directly set position and/or bearing/distance relative to Sol and/or other objects.

Such a thing would be intensely useful to me and my people who are using this as an aid in science fiction writing, does it exist or can someone make it?

You can already find the twenty nearest stars to your current position in Celestia. Under the Navigation panel you will find the Star Browser. This will give you the information you need.

Michael Kilderry

Graticule addons are available which might help.
See http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/graticules.html

You can change the diameters of the spherical coordinate spheres included there so they show directions relative to whereever you place their centers.

I have the graticules installed and I can see the 1, 10, 100 LY marker, etc. however I see nothing else.

...?

Mercurial,

I'm not sure what you mean by "nothing else". That includes a lot

Do you mean that only the labels are visible and not the graticules themselves? (That sounds like the models and textures may not be in the correct directories.)

Which graticules did you install? There are three different sets with different characteristics.

What version of Celestia are you using?
What kind of graphics card do you have?

Try turning on Celestia's "console output"
type a ~ (tilde = shift` on my keybosrd).
Are there any error messages?

Edit:
Did you remember to turn on "galaxy rendering"?
The graticules all are defined as Nebulas and won't be drawn unless galaxies are being drawn. You can select "show galaxies" in the Render/ View Options menu or type a "u" on the keyboard.

I was using Equatorial then I tried Galactic. I had the galaxies being rendered. Labels and not the models were visible. All items unzipped to proper locations. 1.3.2 is the version. I am using a 64 MB Geforce2 MX-400.

I'll investigate more shortly; thanks for your help. " ; ~

Do the CMOD graticules act any different from the image-on-a-flat-model graticules?

Did you try viewing them using the Cel:// URLs that are on the Graticules Web page? http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/graticules.html#2

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The CMOD ones seem to work just fine.

However the coordinate spheres on that site do not work properly; they are only visible as lines that flash in and out of visibility--mostly out--and get all weird when you move the camera.

The flickering is a typical MX 400 problem.
Unfortunately
maxim