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[massimo]

hello mind, I wanted to ask like is made to install the pretty nebula and the last jobs that you have made, thanks soon mind

[JackHiggins]

wtf?

Post in your native language!

[Rassilon]

I think he was referring to MindToAsk and job well done on the nebula he made...

[mroghy]

Italian mode on...
Massimo, se ti riferisci al fatto che la Carina Nebula non si vede anche se l'hai installata bene, succede anche a me: credo sia un problema del modello 3dstudio.
Switching to international mode....
I think Massimo is referring to MindToAsk's Carina Nebula add-on. After installed Nebula does not appear. I suppose a problem in the 3ds file; the pic is shown correctly with any other prog.
I wait for a word from the author...

Maurizio

[MindToAsk]

Does anyone have the same problem? It works fine for me. Maybe you have to toggle on the galaxies ( "u" ), or if they are on increase magnitude ( "]" ).
Does this help?

[mroghy]

I've just tried. Maximum magnitude and galaxies on. Nothing at all. Nada. Niente.

Maurizio

[MindToAsk]

mroghy, did you followed the install instruction? Put the dsc files in your extras folder, the jpg into textures\medres, and the 3ds into models, or just copy whole folder (after unzipping) into extras.
Q: Do you have another addon with the same nebula (if yes you should replace the old files - remember to make a copy of them- maybe the old 3ds specified a png or dds texture)

[JackHiggins]

Sorry- bit annoyed at the time earlier when I wrote that...

[bh]

Ahh Jack...me old Gipper! You know ESB does the trick!

Many regards...bh.

[Rassilon]

Smoke a kipper?

[massimo]

scusate la mia ignoranza nel'usare il forum dato che ce sempre jack che mi rimprovera,mind ho provato in tutti i modi ma non mi funziona e non solo carina nebulexcused my ignorance nel' to use the forum since ce always jack that it reproaches to me, mind I have tried in any case but it does not work to me and not only pretty nebula also your last jobs, I hope that me aids hello


a anche i tuoi ultimi lavori,spero che mi aiuti ciao

[Christophe]

Texture files sometime have the wrong capitalisation (compared to what is in the 3ds file), that will prevent them from loading on operating systems with case-sensitive file systems (i.e. on Unix/Linux).

[mroghy]

I checked the 3ds file and its size is just 2K! Also in the zip I downloaded it is so small. I don't think it is normal.
MindToAsk, are you sure about that file?

Maurizio

[MindToAsk]

mroghy, the 3ds file is just 2k because is a simple model - a square (or rectangle in some cases) with 100x100x10 proportion. The jpg is also relatively small (compared to a png) cause the up(down)load of a png (or dds) texture will take much longer (beside I only have 10 megs on the server).
Note that all my addons are relatively small in size. The smallest is only 55kb (whole zip, not only 3ds or jpg), and the largest is 1.85MB (divided in 4 parts).

[mroghy]

I also tried to use the add-on with a plain Celestia, with the same results.
At that point, it depends on my PC.
Sorry for the long thread.

Maurizio

Ah, Mind: the other add-ons work fine.

[MindToAsk]

Did anyone experienced the same problems?
If not, mroghy, try to re-download the Carina (?) nebula (if I understood right).

[piellepi]

Hi!
I experienced the same problems, but practically with all the add-ons: I can't remembere well, but only a couple of them were good...
I used winzip version 8.1, that seems to handle split zip very well, but since I found these problems I downloaded also version 9 of winzip and this evening at home I'll try again.
But I think the problem is not in the zip file...
Perhaps there is something wrong in the 3ds files.
I remember to you all that 3ds files embed the name of texture files used (you can acknowledge this by reading those 3ds files with a hexadecimal binary file reader) and that in Windows (in theory, AFAIK) there is no problem with letter capitalization as in Linux instead.
I tried to copy a working 3ds file instead of the propose one, but with no result...
So I'm waiting for the solution to this problem

Bye
Pierluigi

[massimo]

guarda che sto provando in i modi mind ma non mi funziona pure cone nebula e le altre galassie,spero che pileppi riesca a risolvere il problema sieit watches that I am trying in the ways mind but me also does not work cone nebula and the other galaxies, I hope that pileppi it succeeds to resolve the problem

[mroghy]

Dear Mind and all,

I have just installed your Cone Nebula. At first, it seems to have the same problem I found for Carina. But this time I tried to go a bit far and then orbit around the Cone Nebula. Magically, something appeared. Not the same image as in your site, but a small cyan disc. Then I tried the same going to Carina. This time the image is a thin gray something. I remember that a lot of time ago this effect (image appearing after went back and orbited, the image is visible only under a certain angle) was discovered and a workaround suggested. Anyone of you remember the solution?

Maurizio

[MindToAsk]

piellepi, when I created the addons I didn't thought about Linux users (since I only use windows). I'll try to repair this mistake if you tell me wich addons are working for you and wich are not; then I'll put a version of the 3ds file wich has the same capitalisation as the jpg.

mroghy, I think the gray thing you're talking about is the original galaxy (a 3d model, withouth a picture) wich Celestia draws (there are 2 galaxies on the same position - when you type the name of the goto object, you'll see that there are two M82, for example). If you have selden's galaxies and clusters addons, just search for the galaxy that you see it has a double, and delete it (from { to }).
Does this help?