Gateway I - Kokaubeam (And Seasons Greetings!)

Guest · Post #1by **Guest** » 22.12.2003, 18:55

Hope you enjoy this addition to Celestia...

The files can be retrieved here:

http://www.celestialvisions.net/addons/

Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Rassilon · Post #2by **Rassilon** » 22.12.2003, 18:56

<--- grrr me

Cormoran · Post #3by **Cormoran** » 22.12.2003, 19:10

Sorry Rass,

Don't see that system on the linked download page.

..or am I jumping the gun a tad?

Cormoran

Guest · Post #4by **Guest** » 22.12.2003, 19:11

Head over to the sourceforge link...Sorry I forgot to mention that!

jamarsa · Post #5by **jamarsa** » 23.12.2003, 00:06

Rassilon (not Guest ) wrote:Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you and everyone here!!

Rassilon · Post #6by **Rassilon** » 26.12.2003, 02:42

Well I hope everyone got this addon ok and everything works out...Unfortunately this will be the last in this series as there is no way to hide the gateways...so I will be putting down the paintbrush and taking up the hammer in an attempt to bring alive some of the features I want to see in Celestia...They will either be external releases or packaged with Celestia...Either way expect planetary surfaces and stars outside the 16 k barrier...This also means I am going to be taking the crash course in openGL programming...so it might be quite some time before I release anything...

I might just team up with marc as it seems hes got my best interests at heart...There really needs to be a spark of adventure in Celestia...

Who knows anyway I now have donned the robes of the openGL monk...When I return I hope to be that much the wiser...

Happy New Year!

ElPelado · Post #7by **ElPelado** » 26.12.2003, 13:05

I have some questions:
-What is "Gateway"??
-How did you do that thing that you see the nebula only from the inside? Is it a sphere with an inside texture?

Rassilon · Post #8by **Rassilon** » 26.12.2003, 13:35

Flip normals in studio max...basically what normally appears outside, appears inside...unfortunately Celestia doesnt really know how to handle more than one of these models...this one seemed to work out a bit hidden but others like it had visibility problems...

Post #9by **selden** » 26.12.2003, 14:09

Ras',

I'm not sure which problems you had, but one that I keep getting bitten by is that Celestia doesn't depth sort either the Nebula models or their facets. They're drawn in the order that Celestia encounters their definitions. Careful organization of the DSC files and of the surfaces within a model can compensate for this problem somewhat, but real depth sorting would make a big difference.

*sigh*

ElPelado · Post #10by **ElPelado** » 26.12.2003, 15:43

Thanks Rass, but you didn't answer my first question... can you?

Rassilon · Post #11by **Rassilon** » 26.12.2003, 17:52

selden wrote:Ras',

I'm not sure which problems you had, but one that I keep getting bitten by is that Celestia doesn't depth sort either the Nebula models or their facets. They're drawn in the order that Celestia encounters their definitions. Careful organization of the DSC files and of the surfaces within a model can compensate for this problem somewhat, but real depth sorting would make a big difference.

*sigh*

Thats why Im going to start programming Celestia...

ElPelado...

The gateways are supposed to be windows into another universe or distant location in our universe...Read the readme for the addon...It explains what its about...

ElPelado · Post #12by **ElPelado** » 26.12.2003, 20:41

I read when I downloaded the file, but I didnt understand it :oops:

thats why I'm asking you...
Now I understand, thank you!

Psykotik · Post #13by **Psykotik** » 25.02.2004, 00:06

I'm enjoying since 3 months the most beautiful addon ever made, and never thank you for your work.

It is done :lol:

piellepi · Post #14by **piellepi** » 27.02.2004, 08:54

Hi!
I agree with Psykotic: it's the best addon I've ever seen!

Fantastic colours everywhere!!

But unfortunately :cry:

there are a couple of small problems: if you switch on the logging console in Celestia (with the key "~"), you can see that there are problems with the stars HIP 777566 and HIP 777668.
I investigated the problem for about half an hour and I found the culprits: there are two errors in two "stc" files.
In detail:
1) in the file "noel6.stc" if you search the string "777527" you will find
"HIP 777527777527"
with a missing "return-line feed" in between.

You must edit the file and insert a "return" after "HIP 777527": if you look at the previous or next definitions you can easily understand where is the error...

2) The second file to be edited is "noel7.stc" where you find, in the first line, the string "hh#": please delete the two characters "hh" ! :wink:

With these errors Celestia doesn't know any star from HIP 777527 on! :oops:

Rass', thank you!!

Pierluigi