Hello,
first let me apologise if posting this question here breaks some forum rules I am unaware of; it's not my intention to bother anyone
I'd like to ask for your help finding the files for an old add-on: the fictional HD 28185 system by user Don Edwards. I remember it from the old days of Celestia and was quite inspired by it on many levels (it is a fictional version of a star system with several habitable moons orbiting a gas giant in the goldilocks zone; the planets and moons are named after volcanoes, so the main gas giant is Erebus, the moons are named Hekla, Yantarni, Methana etc.). Recently, I tried to find it to have another look at it, but alas, it seems to have been lost in the mist of time I certainly cannot find it anywhere in the usual places and the author of the add-on appears to have gone inactive.
Does anyone still have it or can point me to a place where I might find it? Thanks.
Help with finding an old add-on
- John Van Vliet
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the only ones i know of are his old mars textures
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/donedwards/
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creators/donedwards/
I found these directories (dated October 2, 2005) on one of my external hard drives:
drwxrwx---+ 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Oct 2 2005 'HD 28185 System'
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Oct 2 2005 'HD 28185 The Star'
I zipped both directories into a single archive file and they can now be downloaded from
https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/files/28185.zip
The zip is 280 MB, expanding to 557 MB.
I couldn't find any documentation and didn't try them out, so I don't know if they work.
Good luck!
drwxrwx---+ 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Oct 2 2005 'HD 28185 System'
drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Oct 2 2005 'HD 28185 The Star'
I zipped both directories into a single archive file and they can now be downloaded from
https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/files/28185.zip
The zip is 280 MB, expanding to 557 MB.
I couldn't find any documentation and didn't try them out, so I don't know if they work.
Good luck!
Selden
This is exactly it!
Thank you so much, I was worried it's been lost forever It seems to work well enough (at least the 'HD 28185 System' if put in the 'extras' folder; if both are used at the same time, it doesn't); EDIT: several textures (the moons "Pavant" and "Progrmoni") seem to be corrupted, others are fine.
Again, thank you. Now I have to back-up the files so I don't lose it again. It's a nice add-on, I remember Don Edwards used to make quite good textures.
Thank you so much, I was worried it's been lost forever It seems to work well enough (at least the 'HD 28185 System' if put in the 'extras' folder; if both are used at the same time, it doesn't); EDIT: several textures (the moons "Pavant" and "Progrmoni") seem to be corrupted, others are fine.
Again, thank you. Now I have to back-up the files so I don't lose it again. It's a nice add-on, I remember Don Edwards used to make quite good textures.
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