3D Anaglyph Stereo Images For Celestia ?

[Algol27]

Does there be textures to see with red spectacles and blues?

The program Starstrider, have textures anaglyph, but not render 3D!

Can Celestia run 3D anaglyph textures?

The result comes from a photomontage with the starstrider's capture : (2D)

[ElPelado]

I know that with the latests Nvidia drivers, and with a special driver you can make any full screen program/game/etc appear as Anaglyph to watch with the glasses... If you have an Nvidia card go the their site and make a search...
Thats all i can tell you...

[Adirondack]

No, ElPelado,

Nvidia's Stereo-Driver will not work with Celestia (or any program)!

The driver is designed for special 3D-games (you have to choose at the stereo-settings), not for any progs or games ...

I'm sorry to say that, but that's the facts.

Adirondack

[ElPelado]

Yep, I tryed it and it didnt work...
But it works with many games, for example Orbiter Space Flight Simulator...

[Guest]

Hi all,

I just want to say that nvidia's stereo driver works on my machine (win98, AMD64, GF 5700 Ultra, Forceware 61.76 stereo). All you need to do is set Celestia to "Full screen" and wait for a couple of seconds before the anaglyph 3D kicks in.

The games list in the stereo settings of the driver is afaik only a list of recommendations and ratings by nvidia, what 3D quality to expect with which game.
To my knowledge, you can indeed force any game to be anaglyph which uses OpenGL/DX8 and above. The driver just picks the 3D coordinates and lets the GPU render two anaglyph images instead of one ordinary picture.

The quality within Celestia however is not very good. Pseudo-3D features like bumpmapping now look flat again when seen in real 3D. Also the colouring gets partly lost in the anaglyph transformation.

Just to let you know.

Have fun and thank you all for keeping this excellent program alive,

Kai

[ElPelado]

I tryed it with Celestia but it crashes... maybe just settings problmes... i ll keep trying....

[Seb]

Theres some new laptops on the market with 3D screens, but apparently have to sit very much face on to the laptop to see it (no goggles required).

It uses some dual screen technology, one screen throwing a image at one eye, while the screen behind throws an image through the front screen to the other eye, which apparently works really well.

These laptops are surprising cheap, and being used in engineering applications. I thought must be great if games and Celestia could make use of this.

http://66.132.145.25/products/pc_notebooks/actius/rd/3d/
http://www.sharp3d.com/