About Celestia Image Quality

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About Celestia Image Quality

Post #1by LBV 2012-26 » 16.04.2019, 13:47

Celestia EP developed by Alexell adds very beautiful vision star flare and new orbit style. :clap: This is a huge improvement in Celestia's image quality. And the screenshots of Celestia EP are also used on the homepage of Celestia's website. Why not keep it in the new version? (Attach some very beautify screenshots of some plugins made by Celestia friends)
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Post #2by Lafuente_Astronomy » 16.04.2019, 14:33

Well, I think they did put it in there but somehow, my computer renders it as this:
Freaking Flares.jpg


Unless I have a different or weak graphics card, it could be the problem that you mentioned: That it's not properly there in 1.7.0
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Post #3by onetwothree » 16.04.2019, 20:00

Original EP patch is lost I suppose. We plan to implement a better way but we need a texture.

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Post #4by LBV 2012-26 » 18.04.2019, 15:29

Original EP patch is lost I suppose. We plan to implement a better way but we need a texture.
I also keep the patch for Celestia EP.
I don't find any texture of star flare from Celestia EP.exe and Celestia's folder. It seems like program generates.

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Well, I think they did put it in there but somehow, my computer renders it as this:
Freaking Flares.jpg


Unless I have a different or weak graphics card, it could be the problem that you mentioned: That it's not properly there in 1.7.0
My HD 3000 graphics card runs Celestia EP, the star flare will turn into a white square, I think this problem may be similar to your problem.

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Post #5by Lafuente_Astronomy » 21.04.2019, 13:25

Oh I had that same problem too, if you switch "Star Type" to dots, and not add opengl32.dl into your file
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Post #6by Joey P. » 22.04.2019, 03:13

Nice.
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Post #7by onetwothree » 22.04.2019, 10:13

LBV 2012-26 wrote:I also keep the patch for Celestia EP.

Could you share it with me?

LBV 2012-26 wrote:I don't find any texture of star flare from Celestia EP.exe and Celestia's folder. It seems like program generates.

Chris proposed a better and faster way to do the same but using a texture.

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Post #8by LBV 2012-26 » 22.04.2019, 13:46

Could you share it with me?
Ok. You can download it from:
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1zCMW_FgGtYULbtWDnt7vMA Extraction code:WJ22
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Post #9by onetwothree » 22.04.2019, 18:20

Unfortunately I wasn't able to download from any of that links as they require Baidu registration. Could you attach only the patch here?

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Post #10by LBV 2012-26 » 22.04.2019, 21:48

Unfortunately I wasn't able to download from any of that links as they require Baidu registration. Could you attach only the patch here?
Very sorry. :sad: I'm useing iPhone, its operating system is iOS. As a result, I was unable to upload the file. I may wait until I use the computer before I can try to upload the attachment directly.
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Post #11by onetwothree » 23.04.2019, 09:24

Still unsuccessfully.

That's what I have after I enter the code:

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Post #12by LBV 2012-26 » 23.04.2019, 12:58

Still unsuccessfully.

That's what I have after I enter the code:
Click "下载(1.2MB)"
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Post #13by onetwothree » 23.04.2019, 14:08

:) I did this multiple times and was requested to create baidu account:
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Post #14by LBV 2012-26 » 24.04.2019, 13:53

I did this multiple times and was requested to create baidu account:
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Weird.
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Post #15by LBV 2012-26 » 01.05.2019, 23:22

I did this multiple times and was requested to create baidu account:
It can not be added:
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Post #16by fyr02 » 04.12.2020, 01:25

I'm wondering if the star rendering can be added - it's been a long time, but those stars still look amazing.

On another note I did manage to find the patch torrent for Celestia EP.
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[NNM-Club.me]_Celestia Extended Pack 1.7.0 repack by_Alexell v3.0.torrent
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Post #17by Markerz » 04.12.2020, 05:44

this is what I could find on a Chinese website.
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Post #18by fyr02 » 04.12.2020, 17:08

I would like to see the return of the diffraction grating.
Much more visually appealing - could be toggled on/off, similar to how it toggled with the "Points" mode in Alexell's 1.7.
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Post #19by SevenSpheres » 04.12.2020, 17:18

Markerz wrote:this is what I could find on a Chinese website.

DLLs needed to run this on a 1.6.2 install:
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