making 1.6.1 Render limet bigger?

[trappistplanets]

Is there any way i can get 1.6.1 to render things as far out as M87 or farther ?
if so, what do i edit/modify in the files to force celestia to render stars and planets that far out on 1.6.1?

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

You can't, that is 1.7.0 only.

[trappistplanets]

is there a 1.7.0 setup install for windows 7 32 bit?

[SevenSpheres]

Is there any way i can get 1.6.1 to render things as far out as M87 or farther ?
if so, what do i edit/modify in the files to force celestia to render stars and planets that far out on 1.6.1?

You would have to modify the source code and recompile Celestia.

is there a 1.7.0 setup install for windows 7 32 bit?

Yes, see here.

[trappistplanets]

You would have to modify the source code and recompile Celestia.

and how do i do that without breaking celestia or any of my modified files like addons, textures and other stuff

[SevenSpheres]

and how do i do that without breaking celestia or any of my modified files like addons, textures and other stuff

I don't recommend doing it at all. It's much easier to set up Celestia 1.7, as described in the thread I linked.

[trappistplanets]

I don't recommend doing it at all. It's much easier to set up Celestia 1.7, as described in the thread I linked.

how do i back up my files so i can add them to 1.7 because during the time my 1.6.1 broke and i had to reinstall it and i backed up my files those got messed up, like it replaced my textures with the junky default ones, and deleted lots of my addons in the backup files (i put my backups in a different location from where i installed celestia
(i put my backups on my desktop at the time it happened)
this happened months months ago, i recovered from that a while ago

[SevenSpheres]

how do i back up my files so i can add them to 1.7 because during the time my 1.6.1 broke and i had to reinstall it and i backed up my files those got messed up, like it replaced my textures with the junky default ones, and deleted lots of my addons in the backup files

Just put 1.7 in a different folder than the one you use for 1.6.

[trappistplanets]

Just put 1.7 in a different folder than the one you use for 1.6.

but why did reinstalling 1.6.1 to fix my issue mess up my backups witch i put on my desktop
(i had my celestia installed in my documents, not the desktop witch where my backup files were)

[SevenSpheres]

but why did reinstalling 1.6.1 to fix my issue mess up my backups [which] i put on my desktop
(i had my celestia installed in my documents, not the desktop [which was] where my backup files were)

I don't know. That certainly shouldn't happen.

[trappistplanets]

I don't know. That certainly shouldn't happen.

so how do i make it so it doen't happen when i install 1.7.0
and is it safe to have 2 functioning celestia installs?

[SevenSpheres]

so how do i make it so it [doesn't] happen when i install 1.7.0
and is it safe to have 2 functioning celestia installs?

Yes, I have more than two Celestia installs and have never had any issues like what you described.

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

Multiple Celestia installs can coexist provided they are installed to different folders.

[trappistplanets]

Multiple Celestia installs can coexist provided they are installed to different folders.

so they shouldn't mess with each other textures, addons, and other data files as long there not in the same spot?

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

Yes.

[trappistplanets]

Yes

so what do you think caused the 1.6.1 reinstall to fix a issue to mess up my backup files which was not in the same location as where i was installing the new 1.6.1 into?