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Anyone know when Chris issue the 1.2.5 version ?
E.

Yah, I thought it was supposed to be out last week?


Mike M.

Cool are we that close

What would be new ?

One new thing I know Chris is working on is Comets with trails

I have read that he is or was a ill, that's the reason for the delay.

Personally I don't mind waiting, I just wish I was experienced in coding or some other such computing area so I could lend a hand.

I know nothing about coding either, not to mention I would probably mess it up, I am somewhat of a clutz as far as typing goes.


Mike M.

I asked chris and he said the pre release would be out this week!

TVTExtreme4 wrote:I asked chris and he said the pre release would be out this week!

Very close to having it ready . . . I just added a feature to allow including info URL's per body. The eclipse finder is in good shape . . . I just need to finish comets.

--Chris

ok, I just got my new Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4200 (128mb DDR) and I cant wait to see the new version with it!

Just ordered a 21" flatscreen monitor (for ?200 :ODD) so bring on Celestia at 1600x1200 and watch my graphics card fall to its knees.

Okay this is great, just found this program (last week)
and already getting a new version

Chriss will the add feature work better this time

as it dosn't go back to the planet you added after a restart
just hangs in space till you press G

Also could you make it so that Names dont show through planets ?

Fussy lot arnt we Chriss

but this is your baby
and we just want it to grow to be the best

Darkmiss wrote:Also could you make it so that Names dont show through planets ?

You mean, the way that the name of a planet still shows if another planet is in the way? But that's a useful feature!

**rocking back and forth, waiting for 1.2.5**
Just remember, when 1.2.5 comes out you'll have nothing to look forward to for a while...

well I agree that the name can be very usefull

But if you want to look at a planet close up
but alot of the other planets happen to be behind it
you geta mass of green letters all over your loveley new texture

its easy enought to just zoom out and around it to find the rest of the names.

Or you could turn of planet labels when zoomed in by pressing 'P' (I think). Then turn them back on when you need to see them again.

- a b i o g e n e s i s -

Not only turn off planet labels, but you may want to turn off the moon labels by pressing 'm'.


Mike M.

I am dowmloading the prerelese right now .

chris wrote:Very close to having it ready . . . I just added a feature to allow including info URL's per body. The eclipse finder is in good shape . . . I just need to finish comets.

--Chris

So how do you use this url feature now that its installed?


Mike M.

billybob884 wrote:So how do you use this url feature now that its installed?

Just include a line something like this in the object description:

InfoURL "http://www.foo.com/myplanet.html"

There's one example in the solarsys.ssc include file . . . Check out the definition of Varuna . . .

--Chris

Make sure you include this in your scripting document.


Mike M.

Where should I start pressing my reload button to find version 1.2.5?