Marstour XXL

[charlyms]

Hello again!
Get some problems with the Mars tour XXL from Adirondack. Everything I tried failed; mars disappears fully from the programm.
Now I have saturn not mars in the tour . My extra??s folder seems to be a fine mess!
Is anyone so kind and explain how to edit the solarsysfolder?
The original section is:
Atmosphere {
Height 30
Lower [ 0.8 0.6 0.6 ]
Upper [ 0.7 0.3 0.3 ]
Sky [ 0.83 0.75 0.65 ]
Sunset [ 0.7 0.7 0.8 ]
# Slightly bluish sunset, as seen in true color pictures
# from Pathfinder

Mie 0.0024
MieAsymmetry -0.15
Rayleigh [ 0.0010 0.0006 0.0003 ]
Absorption [ 0 0 0 ]
MieScaleHeight 20

I have to replace or to complte following lines without erasing other lines:
* CloudHeight 10
* CloudSpeed 70
* CloudMap "MarsClouds.png"
Kindly regards
Charlyms

[selden]

You neglected to say which version of Celestia you're running.
The Mie statements can only work with a Celestia v1.5.0 prerelease. See the sticky at the top of the Users forum for where to get a copy.

Typos in solarsys.ssc can do serious damage. You'll need to start by restoring the original version. If you've lost it, you can download one from SourceForge. Be sure to get one that's compatible with the version of Celestia that you're running.

This kind of damage is why one should not directly edit solarsys.ssc. When changing or adding text to an object definition you should use the SSC Modify directive in a separate SSC file in the /extras/ directory:

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Modify "Mars" "Sol" {
Atmosphere {
Mie 0.0024
MieAsymmetry -0.15
Rayleigh [ 0.0010 0.0006 0.0003 ]
Absorption [ 0 0 0 ]
MieScaleHeight 20

CloudHeight 10
CloudSpeed 70
CloudMap "MarsClouds.png"

}
}

Mie directives override the other types of Atmosphere color directives, so there's no point in having them both.

[Adirondack]

Get some problems with the Mars tour XXL from Adirondack.

charlyms must have been mistaken.

Only

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         CloudHeight 10
         CloudSpeed 70
         CloudMap "MarsClouds.png"

must be added in the atmosphere-section of Mars (and nothing else).

@ charlyms: I assume that you also added the "*", right?
Just delete all "*" and everything should work fine.

If you want to define an extra ssc (like Selden recommended) you should type this:

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Modify "Mars" "Sol" {
Atmosphere {

CloudHeight 10
CloudSpeed 70
CloudMap "MarsClouds.png"

}
}

Maybe I should update the touring add-ons so that there is no necessity to modify files any more.

Adirondack

[charlyms]

Hello all!
I have no luck by editing the solarsysfile at all!
If Adirondack be so kind and explain it again or better post the edited part of the solasysfile??
My "extra-file" works fine! Why?
Kindly regards
Charlyms

[Adirondack]

charlyms,

when you are using an extra-ssc-file to define the clouds, you don't have to edit the solarsys.ssc !

Adirondack

[charlyms]

Hello!
@Adirondack: Yes , I know, but I only ask myself (and you ) why your proposal don??t
working in the way I realized, sorry!
Kindly regards
Charlyms

[BobHegwood]

I have to replace or to complte following lines without erasing other lines:
* CloudHeight 10
* CloudSpeed 70
* CloudMap "MarsClouds.png"
Kindly regards
Charlyms

Ulrich and Charlyms,

You're not leaving in the asterisks are you? I remember that - in the
original tour - I had asterisks surrounding ALL of the installation
notes. I wasn't as smart then as I am now.

At any rate, just thought I'd ask. Charlyms, the Mars portion of
your solarsys.ssc file should look exactly like the following - with
the caveats that you may or may not use capitalization the way
that I do AND you may not have a normal map:

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#########################
# The planet Mars.   #
#########################
"Mars" "Sol"
{
   Texture         "Mars.jpg"
   NormalMap      "MarsNormal.jpg"
   Color         [ 1 0.75 0.7 ]
   HazeColor      [ 1 1 1 ]
   HazeDensity      0.45
   Radius         3396               # Equatorial.
   Oblateness      0.0069

   Atmosphere
   {
   Height         30
   Lower         [ 0.8 0.6 0.6 ]
   Upper         [ 0.7 0.3 0.3 ]
   Sky         [ 0.83 0.75 0.65 ]
   Sunset         [ 0.7 0.7 0.8 ]            
   Mie         0.0024
   MieAsymmetry      -0.15
   Rayleigh      [ 0.0010 0.0006 0.0003 ]
   Absorption      [ 0 0 0 ]
   MieScaleHeight      20
   CloudHeight      10
   CloudSpeed      70
   CloudMap      "MarsClouds.png"
   }

   CustomOrbit      "vsop87-mars"
   EllipticalOrbit
   {
   Period         1.8809
   SemiMajorAxis      1.5237
   Eccentricity      0.0934
   Inclination      1.8506
   AscendingNode      49.479
   LongOfPericenter   336.041
   MeanLongitude      355.453
   }

   UniformRotation
   {
   Period         24.622962
   Inclination      26.72
   AscendingNode      82.91
   MeridianAngle      136.005
   }

   Albedo         0.150
}


You can modify your existing code as Ulrich decribes above, but
if your solarsys.ssc file is in ANY way screwed up, then that won't
fix the problem.

Just trying to help...

Thanks, Brain-Dead

[charlyms]

Hello all!
Sorry, now I don??t understand anything!
Bob, your Editing works fine, thank??s. My English is to bad, so I cannot understand the rest, sorry!
Kindly regards
Charlyms

[Adirondack]

Sorry, now I don??t understand anything!

I will clarify everything in a personal email to charlyms in plain german.

Adirondack

[BobHegwood]

Sorry, now I don??t understand anything!

I will clarify everything in a personal email to charlyms in plain german.

Adirondack

Danke my friend... Hope that helped.

Take care, Brain-Dead