Pioneer and Voyager craft please!!!

[itec_man]

I think it would be very cool to be able to visit and track these interstellar craft (especially following them with accellerated time and see which systems they get close to - not sure if Celestia takes account of rotation of the Milky Way, gravity etc...) either way it would be nice!

Also, my 3 year old son and I would like to thank the creators and contributors of this wonderful program, which we have only just discovered... enabling non-mega rich ordinary folk to soar among the stars as virtual space tourists, in a small way you have fulfilled a lifelong ambition of mine and will fill my boy's head with wonder... the Open Source community Rocks! Keep up the superb work

[shrox]

Just hang on! I'll get to them!

[Vicware]

Just hang on! I'll get to them!

I would love to help you Shrox - i.e. I've been wanting to model Soho,
which has that very interesting orbit between Earth and the Sun. I
actually found an excellent max model (but I lost the url for it - looking).

The problem is rent-paying - wish I had more time.

Vic

[grylor]

Hi all
I have Voyager spacraft model in 3ds format, tomorrow i will upload it a givu you the link. I hope, i will be useful

grylor@email.cz

[shrox]

I have just been waiting for Celestia to make friends with my video card...
Yes, post a link and I'll look at it. Someone probably has the orbital info on it. Is this one you or someone you know made?

Shrox

[grylor]

Hi

you can download Voyager model (3ds) from this page:

http://www.darkstar.sk/3d.html


grylor

[Kendrix]

I had only it in POV format... !

I have send to Chris the orbital data...

I will try to add Voyager this Week end !

[shrox]

The model isn't really Voyager, kind of a composite of Voyager and Pioneer. I guess I will finish my probes, wonder when I will get to see them...

[Kendrix]

I agree you shrox !

The one I got in POV is PERFECT !!!

But I don't know how to convert it in .3ds ! :o(((

[Klaus Stock]

The one I got in POV is PERFECT !!!

But I don't know how to convert it in .3ds ! (((

It's almost impossible to convert POV-Files to other formats, as a POV source is a program, not just geometrical data. It requires a complete parser to parse a POV file, and there is only one parser which can do this right now - this is POVRAY itself.

However, some guy wrote a patch for some version of POVRAY which added an option to output the compiled object tree from POVRAY to a file (http://www.tb-software.com/products.html). Unfortunately, there is still no converter which takes a POB-file and comverts it to 3DS....