Orion's Arm Locations add-on

eburacum45 · Post #1by **eburacum45** » 09.12.2006, 10:34

Recently I have been concentrating on mapping the collaborative universe of Orion's Arm using Celestia. By creating .dsc files for Open Clusters in various locations I have een able to make a fairly readble series of illustrations showing the basic locations in this universe, many of which were established by Anders Sandberg in 1999-2000.

Here for instance is the central portion of human colonised space, the Inner Sphere, stretching out to a hundred light years or so

eburacum45 · Post #2by **eburacum45** » 09.12.2006, 10:42

And here is an expanded view, showing ten times as much territory; The Middle Regions

All the labels and graphics in these maps are contained in this add-on;
http://www.orionsarm.com/galactography/ ... ionsv2.zip

this add-on contains two of Selden's addons (thanks!) which I have modified slightly for my own purposes; the 'open clusters marked with an 'x' and the galactic graticule in light years.
I've used these images on a new page for OA here
http://www.orionsarm.com/galactography/Locations.html

Dollan · Post #3by **Dollan** » 09.12.2006, 16:48

Does this add-on create that grid?

...John...

eburacum45 · Post #4by **eburacum45** » 09.12.2006, 16:55

Yes. This is part of Selden's graticule grid; it is a 'nebula', so you need to have 'view Nebulas' enabled in Options. Also enabled should be the names for Open Clusters (or in older versions I think the labels appear under Nebulas or Galaxies- I forget which).

Dollan · Post #5by **Dollan** » 09.12.2006, 23:40

eburacum45 wrote:Yes. This is part of Selden's graticule grid; it is a 'nebula', so you need to have 'view Nebulas' enabled in Options. Also enabled should be the names for Open Clusters (or in older versions I think the labels appear under Nebulas or Galaxies- I forget which).

Oh... of course. If I were actually paying attention, I would have noticed the nebula thing. Oof.

Thanks, Steve!

...John...

eburacum45 · Post #6by **eburacum45** » 12.04.2007, 09:02

A load more locations added to the Orion's Arm locations file now; the outer volumes (out to about six and a half thousand light years from Earth) as shown on this map.

The file can be downloaded here
http://www.orionsarm.com/galactography/ ... ionsv4.zip

There must be at least five hundred more worlds from the OA site which could be added to this map- and if used together with Selden's various messier and open cluster catalogues, the Orion arm becomes a crowded neighbourhood to explore.

eburacum45 · Post #7by **eburacum45** » 14.04.2007, 20:18

I might as well post it here; this movie showing a trip through an OA wormhole has been made in Celestia, although I've added a couple of colour changes using Windows Media; the wormhole itself is just a work in progress, so it's not available yet.
http://www.orionsarm.com/movies/Wormhole3.wmv
3.44 megs

The wormhole structure is based on this description by Adam Getchell;
http://www.orionsarm.com/tech/wormholes.pdf
this is a work of fiction, but he has tried to keep it within reasonable bounds.

ANDREA · Post #8by **ANDREA** » 14.04.2007, 20:41

eburacum45 wrote:I might as well post it here; this movie showing a trip through an OA wormhole has been made in Celestia, although I've added a couple of colour changes using Windows Media; the wormhole itself is just a work in progress, so it's not available yet.
http://www.orionsarm.com/movies/Wormhole3.wmv
3.44 megs.

Sorry, but I'm having problems with the movie, I see only two clear and dark green horizontal bands, no more. :cry:

Anyone else with the same problem?
Bye

Andrea

eburacum45 · Post #9by **eburacum45** » 14.04.2007, 23:38

I am not having any problems, nor are some of the other people who have downloaded it- but if anyone has any ideas about this I would be interested.

tech2000 · Post #10by **tech2000** » 15.04.2007, 00:32

eburacum45 wrote:I am not having any problems, nor are some of the other people who have downloaded it- but if anyone has any ideas about this I would be interested.

That is probably a codec related error. I saw the clip without problem.

Regards, Anders

Chuft-Captain · Post #11by **Chuft-Captain** » 15.04.2007, 15:08

Andrea,

I noticed one thing different in your config from most of us...

ANDREA wrote:VISTA 64 Enterprise

Given that VISTA's a "baby" OS, it's likely to be a missing codec. (I'm assuming you were running vista)...Have you tried it in XP as well?

Chuft-Captain · Post #12by **Chuft-Captain** » 15.04.2007, 15:10

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tech2000 · Post #13by **tech2000** » 15.04.2007, 17:40

Chuft-Captain wrote:Andrea,

I noticed one thing different in your config from most of us...
ANDREA wrote:VISTA 64 Enterprise
Given that VISTA's a "baby" OS, it's likely to be a missing codec. (I'm assuming you were running vista)...Have you tried it in XP as well?

I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 and with the K-Lite Mega Codec v1.71 pack.

Bye, Anders

ANDREA · Post #14by **ANDREA** » 15.04.2007, 17:44

Chuft-Captain wrote:Andrea,
I noticed one thing different in your config from most of us...
ANDREA wrote:VISTA 64 Enterprise
Given that VISTA's a "baby" OS, it's likely to be a missing codec. (I'm assuming you were running vista)...Have you tried it in XP as well?

Chuft-Captain, for Celestia I'm still using XP 32 SP2 only, and the problem is with this OS.
I agree with tech2000 that probably it's a missing codec, but after this problem arose I've opened flawlessly a lot of wav, mp3, avi, mpeg files, all without problems, so I don't understand where the problem can be.
I've just installed the last codecs release, no improvement.
I have downloaded the movie three times, just to be sure that it's not a bad download problem or a corrupted file, same results. :cry:

Oh well...
Thank everybody for the replies.
Bye

Andrea

tech2000 · Post #15by **tech2000** » 15.04.2007, 19:51

ANDREA wrote:Chuft-Captain, for Celestia I'm still using XP 32 SP2 only, and the problem is with this OS.
I agree with tech2000 that probably it's a missing codec, but after this problem arose I've opened flawlessly a lot of wav, mp3, avi, mpeg files, all without problems, so I don't understand where the problem can be.
I've just installed the last codecs release, no improvement.
I have downloaded the movie three times, just to be sure that it's not a bad download problem or a corrupted file, same results.
Oh well...
Thank everybody for the replies.
Bye

Andrea

Andrea, I converted the file to DivX and here is a download link just for you.. :wink:

Enjoy it.

Best regards, Anders

ANDREA · Post #16by **ANDREA** » 15.04.2007, 20:31

tech2000 wrote:
Chuft-Captain wrote:Andrea,

I noticed one thing different in your config from most of us...
ANDREA wrote:VISTA 64 Enterprise
Given that VISTA's a "baby" OS, it's likely to be a missing codec. (I'm assuming you were running vista)...Have you tried it in XP as well?
I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 and with the K-Lite Mega Codec v1.71 pack. Bye, Anders

Anders, you solved my problem.

I installed the K-Lite Mega Codec and now everything works OK.
I've seen the movie, very interesting, my appreciation to eburacam45 for his work, well done. :wink:

Thank all of you once again.
Bye

Andrea