hdxref.dat Missing ?

[Darkmiss]

In the Celestia.cfg there is a line that reads

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   StarCatalogCrossReferences [ "data/hdxref.dat" ]

But hdxref.dat is missing from the data folder.
Is this file needed ?


Also Whilst I'm here
North America is input twice in the solsys-locs.ssc

[Bob Hegwood]

Paul,

Don't have that in my Windows version of Celestia...

Simply the following:

{
select { object "Sol/Jupiter/Io" }
follow {}
goto { time 5 }
# gotolonglat { time 0 distance 1e11 longitude 0 latitude 0 }
# gotolonglat { time 0 distance 2.5 longitude -122 latitude 47 } # Seattle!
# wait { duration 0.1 }
# orbit { axis [ 0 1 0 ] rate 10 duration 7 }
# goto { time 5 distance 10 }
# wait { duration 5.0 }
}

Are you using a different version? I also don't have any "solsys-loc.ssc" file in my version.

Sorry, Bob

[selden]

Bob,

Paul made a typo: the file is solsys-locs.ssc in the data directory. "NORTH AMERICA" is in there twice at exactly the same location, so the labels are drawn precisely on top of one another. As a result, the doubling isn't visible when you enable location labels while running Celestia.

I don't have the cross-reference entry, either. Might it be a left-over from a previous installation of Marc's SQL database?

[granthutchison]

Also Whilst I'm here
North America is input twice in the solsys-loc.ssc

Oops. My boo-boo. Fixed.

Grant

[Bob Hegwood]

Bob,

Paul made a typo: the file is solsys-locs.ssc in the data directory. "NORTH AMERICA" is in there twice at exactly the same location,

Selden,

I don't have *any* "solsys*.*" location file in MY data directory, and I don't have this file in ANY of my Celestia directories.

What gives?

Thanks, Bob

[selden]

Bob,

I really dunno why yours would be missing. The Windows installation kit that I downloaded from SourceForge did create a copy of that file on my system.

At any rate, you can download it manually from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/celestia/celestia/data/solsys_locs.ssc

(That page displays a list of all the different versions of the file. Select an appropriate "download" link on that page.)

[Darkmiss]

Sorry I made a boo boo, too. I didn't mean the start.cel
I meant the Celestia.cfg, its the third line down.

There is a line in there, that reads

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StarCatalogCrossReferences [ "data/hdxref.dat" ]

and hdxref.dat is missing from the data folder.


I corrected my first post too

[selden]

Since it isn't on sourceforge, I suspect it may be a feature intended for the next version of Celestia.

Selden (dunno if I'm logged in or not)

[Bob Hegwood]

Paul,

Yep, missing on mine too...

Doesn't seem to be causing a problem though. We'll find an error when we try to use a feature we haven't tried yet.

Take care, Bob

[granthutchison]

I don't have *any* "solsys*.*" location file in MY data directory, and I don't have this file in ANY of my Celestia directories.

Bob, it's actually named solsys_locs.ssc (underline, not hyphen), and it is distributed in the data directory of the definitive release of 1.3.1 - it's a small sampler of location names for prominent features around the solar system.
It certainly appears in my installation of 1.3.1, which I made directly from the link Chris provided in the forum.

Grant

[chris]

Paul,

Yep, missing on mine too...

Doesn't seem to be causing a problem though. We'll find an error when we try to use a feature we haven't tried yet.

hdxref.dat was a file used with an experimental feature of Celestia that ended up being a dead end. The reference to it in celestia.cfg won't hurt anything--it's just clutter that should have been removed for the release.

--Chris

[Darkmiss]

Okay thank you Chris
I wasn't sure if this was something we needed or not.
I'm glad it turned out to be nothing.

I have safely removed the line myself.

[Bob Hegwood]

Bob, it's actually named solsys_locs.ssc (underline, not hyphen), and it is distributed in the data directory of the definitive release of 1.3.1 - it's a small sampler of location names for prominent features around the solar system.
It certainly appears in my installation of 1.3.1, which I made directly from the link Chris provided in the forum.

Grant,

I downloaded the package from the SAME link, and I did NOT get this file on my system. How do we explain that? I'm CERTAIN that I did not overwrite it, delete it, or screw it up any other way. No big deal, I'll just get it later.

I AM curious to know how that could happen though...

Thanks again, Bob

[Bob Hegwood]

hdxref.dat was a file used with an experimental feature of Celestia that ended up being a dead end. The reference to it in celestia.cfg won't hurt anything--it's just clutter that should have been removed for the release.

Thanks for the explanation, Chris...

And thanks AGAIN for this spectacular program. YOU DA MAN!

Thanks to you, my wife no longer suspects that I have a girlfriend. She simply KNOWS that I'm addicted to Celestia!

Take care, Bob