Gallia revisited: a preview

[rthorvald]

Gallia was the first real AddOn i made, one and a half year ago. It was
sort of fun, but looking at it now, it is in a rather sorry state; i knew
almost nothing about 3D design or Celestia work then - i barely managed
to stitch it together by brute force...

Now, i am re-doing it from scratch, and this time, it wil be what i wanted
to do then. Much more detail, and a much more interesting journey...

Jestr has written the trajectory, as he did last time. This time, we have
taken some liberties with Jules Verne??s data, which we discovered then
didn??t add up. By moving everything forward two years, we have a much
better result... With close flybys of Venus, Jupiter, the galilean moons,
and several other objects... A lot of eye candy

Here??s a few screenshots, work in-progress:

At aphelion - winter on Gallia (the Island of Gibraltar):


Servadac??s balloon - the second encounter with the Earth:


-rthorvald

[ElChristou]

Waow !!!!

[Jeam Tag]

By moving everything forward two years, we have a muchbetter result... With close flybys of Venus, Jupiter, the galilean moons,and several other objects... A lot of eye candy
Here??s a few screenshots, work in-progress:
-rthorvald

You're fools, guys! : these are great improvments, and I'm sure oddy Jules loves these stuffs, really this is his Year (He passed away in 1905, there are some (little, alas) manifestations here in France) so we can play with his story, even if they are not totally astronomically credibles Jeam

[Tech Sgt. Chen]

Wow! That was your 1ST add on?! You were born for this!
You must be a perfectionist (which is not a bad thing) because this looks great to me!

[rthorvald]

That was your 1ST add on?

Yes, well, i had the BlueVenus texture on the books, but that was
just a surface map, not an addon.

Anyhow, a bit more on the trajectory: what i meant by having a better
result is, in the first version we followed Vernes description slavishly
- since he wrote up the orbit in extreme detail in the book. But the data
didn??t work - the XYZ zigzagged all over the place. This time, we took
some liberties, and have a trajectory that really looks natural.

And it doesn??t start/stop on arbitrary spots anymore, now the comet
comes from clear outside the Solar System, and it leaves it entirely too.
One nice thing about that, is we get to visit more places. For example, it
zips by pretty close to Neptune and Triton:

Screenshots below: the same scene first from space, then from the
surface:

(the comet is frozen this far out):

(The volcano: the only piece of land native to Gallia that figures in the story)


-rthorvald

[rthorvald]

Hm... The englishmen didn??t believe they were on a comet, and chose to
wait for help instead of leaving... And then their island fell of the comet. Shit
happens, as they say


-rthorvald

[d.m.falk]

Mmmm, terraformed (and technologically maintained) asteroids...... Too bad I'm not up to creating stuff like this- I have no way to compensate anyone who could actually assist me in some of my fanciful ideas...

This is pretty close to stuff I have conceived, but not compelled to write about ( ) for the last 25 years or so.

d.m.f.

[ElChristou]

Re Waow !!!!.... exellent... can we enter the house? (it would be cool to wath out through the windows)

[rthorvald]

Re Waow !!!!.... exellent... can we enter the house? (it
would be cool to wath out through the windows)

Now, that was a cool idea... Should have thought of it earlier; i made the
windows almost (not quite) opaque... I just checked: not much to be seen.
But the normals are OK from both sides, so one *can* enter.

It would be fun to furnish a room in there, and open the window... No time
now, though; i want to complete this before my holiday ends, there won??t
be much time for celestia in the fall... Maybe an update later - unless
someone else are interested in bringing empire furniture to space

- rthorvald

[rthorvald]

it would be cool to wath out through the windows

Gad, i couldn??t stop thinking about that idea; it is something i should have
thought about myself... So, there wasn??t anything else to do but to spend
this saturday doing it... I took the quick and dirty route, and downloaded the
furniture from a freeware site, but... Here??s a view, lightning turned way
down. Outside the right window, one can see Earth??s moon gliding past...

... This is *nothing* compared to the detailed work on your shuttle, but it??s
fun anyway



-rthorvald

[buggs_moran]

My good gawd you are talented...

[ElChristou]

Hey! Great... perhaps an armchair would be cool near the window to sit and enjoy the vue

Bye

[Rassilon]

Speechless as usual....

The island asteroid is quite amazing....