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Hi,
Maybe you could rephrase this query for a response ; in the meantime....why not try making a copy of an existing ssc, open it with notepad, do a bit of editing, maybe one parameter at a time and temporarily putting it in place of (the safely stored) original, you can learn a lot by trial and error.

Take a look on the motherlode under documentation,

there are documents that explain most commands of the ssc and stc files.

Hunter Parasite wrote:Can someone help me? ok, im to slow-minded to understand the ssc part of Seldan balls not so brief introduction to add-ons, can someone tell me how to make a ssc and a stc file?

... Selden Ball...

Describing yourself as being "too slow" really doesn't help me to improve what I've written. What don't you understand? Please start from the beginning. No question is too stupid.

However, do take the time to read the documentation that's on the MotherLode. You should suggest improvements for those files, too.

selden wrote:Describing yourself as being "too slow" really doesn't help me to improve what I've written. What don't you understand? Please start from the beginning. No question is too stupid.

However, do take the time to read the documentation that's on the MotherLode. You should suggest improvements for those files, too.

I have read over here repeatedly that many (young, male(!)) Americans are reading /so little/ these days that the ability of grasping the contents of extended written text is getting lost...

Could there be some truth in this or is is just "bad press"?


Bye Fridger

Certainly a lot of attention is being given to the large number of people who don't seem to be able to read well or at all. I don't know if there actually are more illiterates than there used to be or if people are just paying more attention to the problem.

However, I don't think that discussing the problems in the U.S. educational system is appropriate for the Celestia forum.

*sigh*

Really, sscs and stcs are very straightforward. Roughly speaking, an ssc just tells Celestia what planets and asteroids etc to put in the system and where to put them, and an stc tells it what stars to put in and where to put those.

That said, they obviously use a lot of technical terms (right ascension, declination, semimajor axis, eccentricity, mean anomaly etc) and you need some knowledge of practical astronomy to understand them.

However, if you're not prepared to put in the time to understand those terms (and IIRC they are explained on Selden's site) then you're not going to get anywhere. Selden's explanations are not hard to understand if you're willing to put in the effort, and there are plenty of other sites (eg wikipedia, mathworld/physicsworld) that can explain them too.

Also i am to slow-minded to understand because the epileptic disease , but you can open *.ssc and *.stc files with notepad and....

ziggy wrote:you can learn a lot by trial and error.

example --> a job with notepad:

selden wrote:Certainly a lot of attention is being given to the large number of people who don't seem to be able to read well or at all. I don't know if there actually are more illiterates than there used to be or if people are just paying more attention to the problem.

However, I don't think that discussing the problems in the U.S. educational system is appropriate for the Celestia forum.

*sigh*

I agree, but it might still be instructive to ask our Parasite friend how many "full size" books (with > 100 pages, say) he has read in his life...

Now again you might argue: what's the relation of this question to Celestia? Hmm, I might answer...his answer will furnish important information about whether Frank's heroic effort to write a great pedagogical manual for Celestia was worthwhile

Bye Fridger