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Posted: **16.03.2007, 04:18**

I cant seem to get all the planets for a system to show up in Celestia. I'm using system maker to make it easy. The first planet in my system works fine its there and behaves the way it should. But I have so far added 6 out of 15 planets and NONE of them show up. I look at the script and I cant find out what is wrong with it. Any ideas?

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# ----------------- Star Data Block ------------------- #
# --------------- End Star Data Block ----------------- #


"Chara 1" "Chara"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "tethys.jpg"
   Radius 3349.3 

   CustomOrbit "Chara 1 3349.3 "
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period  0.323 
      SemiMajorAxis 0.534481443936871 
      Eccentricity 0.137 
      Inclination 2.10732 
      AscendingNode 192.03 
   }

   RotationPeriod  1112.91 
   Albedo  0.07 



#------------Data Block-----------
#    Mass  0.141  Earth Masses
#    Density  5.3523944592 
#    Class Type "Rock"
#-----------End Data Block--------


}


"Chara 2" "Chara"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\ariel.jpg"
   Radius 1326.7 

   CustomOrbit "Chara 2 1326.7 "
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period  0.291376451912417 
      SemiMajorAxis 0.499 
      Inclination 2.10732 
      AscendingNode 192.03 
   }

   RotationPeriod  2811.56 
   Albedo  0.07 



#------------Data Block-----------
#    Mass  0.009  Earth Masses
#    Density  5.4968700516 
#-----------End Data Block--------


}


"Chara 3" "Chara"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\deimos.jpg"
   Radius 4270 

   CustomOrbit "Chara 3 4270 "
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period  0.350124226207731 
      SemiMajorAxis 0.564 
      Eccentricity 0.063 
      Inclination 1.16776 
      AscendingNode 104.24 
   }

   RotationPeriod  3372.46 
   Albedo  0.07 



#------------Data Block-----------
#    Mass  0.294  Earth Masses
#    Density  5.3858574368 
#    Class Type "Rock"
#-----------End Data Block--------


}


"Chara 4" "Chara"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\enceladus.jpg"
   Radius 5947.5 

   CustomOrbit "Chara 4 5947.5 "
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period  0.620545096964179 
      SemiMajorAxis 0.826 
      Eccentricity 0.038 
      Inclination 0.16518 
      AscendingNode 278.91 
   }

   RotationPeriod  18.38 
   Albedo  0.07 



#------------Data Block-----------
#    Mass  0.807  Earth Masses
#    Density  5.4709321754 
#    Class Type "Rock"
#-----------End Data Block--------


}


"Chara 5" "Chara"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\europa.jpg"
   Radius 18115.7 

   CustomOrbit "Chara 5 18115.7 "
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period  1.29514569489901 
      SemiMajorAxis 1.349 
      Eccentricity 0.133 
      Inclination 0.00002 
      AscendingNode 273.86 
   }

   RotationPeriod  14.46 
   Albedo  0.46 



#------------Data Block-----------
#    Mass  6.583  Earth Masses
#    Density  1.5792454819 
#    Class Type "Rock"
#-----------End Data Block--------


}


"Chara 6" "Chara"
{
   Class "planet"
   Texture "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\earth.png"
   NightTexture "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\earthnight.jpg"
   Radius 7878.4 

   CustomOrbit "Chara 6 7878.4 "
   EllipticalOrbit {
      Period  1.77752319305846 
      SemiMajorAxis 1.666 
      Eccentricity 0.133 
      Inclination 3.24197 
      AscendingNode 255.25 
   }

   RotationPeriod  13.66 
   Albedo  0.37 



#------------Data Block-----------
#    Mass  1.92  Earth Masses
#    Density  5.5998745266 
#    Class Type "Terrestrial"
#-----------End Data Block--------


}

The textures are just stand-ins as I am working on all the textures right now

Posted: **16.03.2007, 08:57**

Greetings!

an obvious difference between the last five planets and the first is that their texture declarations have this absolute pathname part in them: "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\". Maybe that trips Celestia up.

Try using Wordpad or something like it to replace "C:\Program Files\Celestia\textures\medres\" with "" (i.e. nothing) in the .SSC, or edit that pathname before you commit a texture in System Maker.

Spiff.

Posted: **17.03.2007, 03:25**

DOH! So simple. I couldnt figure out what was different. Guess this is one of those cases where you just need another set of eyes! THANKS!

Posted: **17.03.2007, 09:13**

pilot_guy415 wrote:DOH! So simple.

Yep! I tried out your SSC after I made those corrections, and it worked fine.

pilot_guy415 wrote:Guess this is one of those cases where you just need another set of eyes!

Yeah, I can find other people's mistakes at 20 parsecs, but can't ever spot my own either... Pfff.

I'm looking forward to seeing your final system

.

Spiff.

P.s. That's spelt "D'OH!" :wink:

Posted: **18.03.2007, 01:21**

Well my spelling is horrid. Yea I have a feeling this system is going to take me a while. The rock planets (mercury style) are easy and take a couple minutes to texture. The gas giants are also fairly easy, although I haven't started on them just yet. The real hard part comes with the two habitable planets I have in the system. Actually its a habitable planet with a moon also habitable. So far I have spent about 6 hours work trashing and reworking the textures for the moon of the habitable planet. I used lunarcell to create continents and am using a blue marble texture to make it look more realistic. But I figure I can show a quick preview of what I have going on.

This is temporarily named Chara 1 the first planet in the Chara system. It is a hot tidally locked rock planet similar to mercury. It orbits at ~.2 AU from Chara.

Well, obviously this still needs a lot of work but this is temporarily named Chara 6.1. It is the moon of the 6th planet in the Chara system (notice the earth in the background? That is Chara 6 which will be textured once I'm done with Chara 6.1). It is a warm humid planet with a race of amphibian type creatures dominating the planet. Orbit is approximately 1.3 AU from the star itself. A day is quite a bit short then earth coming in at about 16 hrs.

I'm actually using this system as the home system to an alien race for a universe that I am creating. I enjoy conworlding so I figure conuniverseing would be even more fun. Once I'm done I should have most of the back story done so I'll post them both up at the same time.

P.S.- for those that don't (doubt many hear don't but figure I would cover all my bases) Chara is a G0V class star approx. 27 light years away from earth. It is one of two stars in the Canis Venatici constilation. From earth the star is fairly dim (mag. 4.25) but up close the star is slightly larger and brighter then our own sun.

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