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Three new addons of mine are now showing at the Motherlode.

1- RX J0806.3+1527. Two real white dwarfs rotating around their barycenter which are emitting intense x-rays from their accretion disk.

2- 8 fictious nebulae, to be used as backgrounds with any fictious addons. They can be pretty spectacular, especially in full screen mode, with some fictious planet on the foreground.

3- "Black Naught", a fifth black hole (yet another one, sorry) with a huge accretion disk.

I've been watching your work. Really spectacular stuff! Don't apologize for the Black Holes. Keep em coming! Don't be so quick to call your Nebular matter fictitious. Most of our galaxy is loaded with the stuff. You can place it just about anywhere and it would be a good representation of what's actually out there. Keep up the good wok!

Your stuff is great!

Cham wrote:Three new addons of mine are now showing at the Motherlode.

1- RX J0806.3+1527. Two real white dwarfs rotating around their barycenter which are emitting intense x-rays from their accretion disk.

2- 8 fictious nebulae, to be used as backgrounds with any fictious addons. They can be pretty spectacular, especially in full screen mode, with some fictious planet on the foreground.
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Hi Cham !

Nice work !!
I love your second pack of fictious nebulae, but the first was nice too ! unfortunately I have some trouble with him because I have lost the texture of the planets, like 82 Eri for example....
Moreover, it's wrote in the text file that I need the pulsar addon from selden..but what is name ? I guess I can find him on Motherlode but where ?

3- "Black Naught", a fifth black hole (yet another one, sorry) with a huge accretion disk

Oh, please, don't apologize for always making black hole... I like them very much !
but I wondered.... I had red that most of black hole are in the center of a galaxie, our milky way for exemple. Do you think it will be hard to put one in our galaxie with many stars gobble up by the hole ?
It's just a question, isn't it ? Don't think that I consider that you haven't work enough ...

Regards,

Ariane

I presume he means the pulsar catalog at
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/catalogs.html#3.5.14

selden wrote:I presume he means the pulsar catalog at
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/catalogs.html#3.5.14

Great !

Thanks a lot Selden !

I have another question about addons :
Is it normal that when we put a lots of addon in the extras folder, it appears some curious black spherical spot problem inside some nebula sphere, especially when we put a lots of nebulae or pulsar or complex 3D view ...too bad, they are so beautiful !

One answer could be to have different versions of celestia installed ... I have read this in previous post :

http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic ... tia+folder

but I don't really know how to do... must I create different folder or could I use the same with different extras folder ?

regards,

Ariane

Ariane wrote:I have another question about addons :
Is it normal that when we put a lots of addon in the extras folder, it appears some curious black spherical spot problem inside some nebula sphere, especially when we put a lots of nebulae or pulsar or complex 3D view ...too bad, they are so beautiful !
Ariane

Yes, this is true with DSC objects. I once defined many fictious spherical nebulae, not so far away from each other. While inside one of them and watching in the direction of another one, I could easily spot some small black sphere "printed" on the current nebula texture (the one I'm in). That black sphere is the other spherical nebula. I solved this annoying problem by defining all my fictious nebulae as SSC instead as DSC.

However, there's a catch with SSC. I can't see the nebula if I'm far away from its parent star (outside the nebula), but this isn't a real problem as spherical nebulae looks very unatural from the exterior. When I'm inside the spherical nebula, clicking on a distant star will select the nebula instead. I have to go outside the nebula to be able to click on any star !

Cham wrote:Yes, this is true with DSC objects. I once defined many fictious spherical nebulae, not so far away from each other. While inside one of them and watching in the direction of another one, I could easily spot some small black sphere "printed" on the current nebula texture (the one I'm in). That black sphere is the other spherical nebula. I solved this annoying problem by defining all my fictious nebulae as SSC instead as DSC.
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Hello Cham !
How can I do to correct this bug with DSC file ? May be there isn't any solution ?!

Cham wrote:However, there's a catch with SSC. I can't see the nebula if I'm far away from its parent star (outside the nebula),

Yes, I've seen that before, but I thought that's because of my graphic card (ATI)

Cham wrote:but this isn't a real problem as spherical nebulae looks very unatural from the exterior. When I'm inside the spherical nebula, clicking on a distant star will select the nebula instead. I have to go outside the nebula to be able to click on any star

Well, in my case, even if I'm outside the nebula, I can't select any star...but never mind, in general I type the name and it's OK !
Bye
Ariane