Introducing myself and question

[meegja]

Hello, my name is Menno from The Netherlands. Just been using Celestia for a few days now and I think it's GREAT!! Indeed very addictive!!
But now I encountered my first real problem: I found a program called Globular Cluster Generator on http://www.celestiaproject.net/~rassilon/ ....
I understand the meaning of what the program does, but somehow I can't get the STC and/or SSC files that the program generates, to work in Celestia. I place them in the Celestia/extras folder and make the HIP name higher then the last HIP number in starnames.dat in the Celestia/data folder. But when I run Celestia, the HIP I created is just not to be found? What am I doing wrong?
I tried to add the HIP number in starnames.dat, but that also doesn't work.
Thanx in advance for any info!!!

[Adelvunegv_waya]

Check and see if the stc and ssc files were saved as text files, if that is the case, then you need to convert em.

Granted i cheated, i downloaded an stc file and used it as a template.
windows is very picky sometimes.

Hope this helps

[meegja]

Mmmm, I found the problem: the program is saving the files with all comma's in the lines, while Celestia is only working with points in the lines. I think this is because the number notation here in Europe/Netherlands is with comma's ..... like we write $ 400,34 (400 dollar and 34 Dollarcents) but in the US it's written like $ 400.34 .... I think that if I set Windows to use the point as regular divider and not the comma, the prob is solved .... I hope this is clear what I am writing? English is not my native tongue

[Guest]

Problem solved ... it is indeed a point and comma problem .... but the STC and/or SSC opened in MS Word, there a "Search All" to the , comma .... the a "Replace All" with a point . .... and all works just fine now in Celestial

[ElPelado]

i had the same proble some time ago, and i solved it the same way: using the Replace all command in the Word.