Creating a star?

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Creating a star?

Post #1by BOBILLBAJO » 19.04.2008, 18:51

I'm a little new to all this but, is it possible to create a star in celestia?
Based on the debated theory of Nibiru/PlanetX I'm wanting to create a brown dwarf that orbits our sun in an elliptical manner. I have found one addon that made a pretty good attempt at this, but flawed none the less. Orbit aside, can i replace the planet with a small star? If not i guess i'll just have to play around with different textures.
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Re: Creating a star?

Post #2by selden » 19.04.2008, 19:08

Stars are defined in STC catalog files.

They can be defined to orbit around other Stars just as planets are defined in SSC files.

Examples are in Celestia's /data/nearstars.stc

STC parameters are described in
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/STC_File
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