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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

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

Does this add-on create that grid?

...John...

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).

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...

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.

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.

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.
Anyone else with the same problem?
Bye

Andrea

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.

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

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?

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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

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

Andrea

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.. Enjoy it.

Best regards, Anders

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.
Thank all of you once again.
Bye

Andrea