Celestia Add-on Catalog Now Live

Osmosis · Post #41by **Osmosis** » 30.05.2004, 16:08

Don, I just tried the New England VT 2 Boston link again, and when it gets done downloading I get this: ! C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\Downloads\eastcost-p2-boston-lvl6up-(last-lvl-hires-2048).zip: Unexpected end of archive

That is about the 4th time or so I've tried it (and the Italy 2 and 3 also), I noticed that the ones that were successful from that bunch were all under 2.6MB, the ones that failed are slightly larger. Just having downloaded a 180MB file on my slow dialup, I don't know why that would make a difference, unless it has to do with the site. But I'll keep trying...

don · Post #42by **don** » 30.05.2004, 18:39

Howdy rthorvald,

rthorvald wrote:Wish i had more free time!

Don't we all ! :lol:

rthorvald wrote:1. What are the empty field "local" (in the deep space catalog) for?

All I know is that it's for future use, but not sure exactly what. I'll leave this one for Joe.

rthorvald wrote:2. Do you use a publishing engine, or just plain HTML?

Right now, we're both using plain HTML text editors and the site has a very basic CSS file. I'm looking into creating a mySQL database that will contain the information and images and then use php/perl/whatever to dynamically generate the pages from the database. Which would also allow for form-based web maintenance of the data. But, this is a ways into the future.

Cheers,

don · Post #43by **don** » 30.05.2004, 19:30

Osmosis wrote:Don, I just tried the New England VT 2 Boston link again, and when it gets done downloading I get this: ... That is about the 4th time or so I've tried it (and the Italy 2 and 3 also), ...

I'm real sorry to hear this. I'm the one replying, since it's my web host and ftp server that kinderino's files are stored on, since he doesn't have any web space. I just tried all three again and they work and unzip for me. However, I'm in the process of re-uploading the files anyway. About 10 minutes after this message is posted, they should be refreshed. Sorry for the problems.

Cheers,

Starman · Post #44by **Starman** » 30.05.2004, 20:45

Hey Don, thanks for the link! Yeah, I think he went on his honeymoon, and that was the last anybody had heard from Bruckner :lol:

. Anyway, I'm going to be downloading a lot more, so I'll report any mistakes I come up with here.

I tried MindtoAsk's downloads an hour before you it seems; hopefully it was just a temporary problem.

--Starman

don · Post #45by **don** » 30.05.2004, 21:06

You're welcome Starman. Have fun!

Osmosis · Post #46by **Osmosis** » 30.05.2004, 21:53

It must be a time thing with my dialup and your web host Don, as I had a friend of mine who runs a site that I have my little subdomain on download them for me on highspeed, and I downloaded them off of her site just fine

. One of these days I guess I'll break down and go broadband...

don · Post #47by **don** » 30.05.2004, 23:21

Osmosis wrote:It must be a time thing with my dialup and your web host Don,

I can't imagine what, as I've been with them (pair.com) since the late 90's and didn't get DSL until just last year. Meaning I used dialup all the time until then. Very strange. I'm glad you finally got the files.

Osmosis wrote:One of these days I guess I'll break down and go broadband...

When you do, you'll wonder how you lived without it for so long.

alphap1us · Post #48by **alphap1us** » 31.05.2004, 04:10

So if anyone is having the local links problem,where the site doens't like you just grabbing the file and then running, especially with the deepspace page, this is probably the quickest solution. Copy the link location and then click on the creators name to go to their site. When you get there just paste the name into the addres bar and hit return. That should fool the orginator detector things the man uses to oppress Celestia. :twisted:

If you are not on the deepspace page you should try pasting the link and then deleting the last parts of the entry to go some other part of the site. Then just paste the full link in and you're downloading away.

Joe

don · Post #49by **don** » 31.05.2004, 07:23

Since the add-ons I have on my ftp site are from folks who don't have sites ...

In the case where the link you are trying to go to is "ftp://www.donandcarla.com/<some dir and file name>", just copy the link, paste it into the address bar of your browser, eliminate the filename and any directory name(s), resulting in: "ftp://www.donandcarla.com/". You will then see a list of directories and available files, like any other ftp site.

Cheers,

Osmosis · Post #50by **Osmosis** » 31.05.2004, 17:26

I had used my ftp program to get there, that is how I got the Hawaii VT's, but still couldn't get the ones in question without them being corrupted. In fact, when using my ftp program and downloading one of the files, I got a "aborted by user" message near the end of the download, and I had done nothing to cause that (just dumbly looking at the screen)! That's where I thought it might be a time issue or something, I really don't know

. But I have them now, so I be happy

.

TERRIER · Post #51by **TERRIER** » 13.06.2004, 10:03

Sorry, just bumping this back to the top.

Just wondering if it should be a "Sticky" ?

Dora · Post #52by **Dora** » 18.06.2004, 20:00

Hi Joe,

thanks a lot for this well structured collection of addons and textures!

Unfortunately I lost my complete Celestia directory a few days ago. For sure your site will help me to rebuild it soon.

Ciao
Dora

alphap1us · Post #53by **alphap1us** » 28.06.2004, 05:17

This thread is now superceded by my more recent announcement. Please don't post anything else here, as it will just be confusing. I will take down the uchicago site and replace it with a link to The Motherlode.

Redfish · Post #54by **Redfish** » 10.07.2004, 14:42

Well I didn't read the entire thread, but have to say the site LOOKS awesome. Don't know if you had any help. But the backgrounds are really nice and the color scheme is also very cool. Haven't tried to download anything. This mainly because I'm into VT for earth at the moment.

Only one little comment. The menus on the right of the home page are not perfect. You can see the line of the bottom image. I think you should cut off the image a big higher so it fits nicely with the table background.

don · Post #55by **don** » 10.07.2004, 15:30

Redfish wrote:Well I didn't read the entire thread, but have to say the site LOOKS awesome. Don't know if you had any help. But the backgrounds are really nice and the color scheme is also very cool.

Thank you Redfish. The site design and graphics were done by rthorvald with input from myself, Joe and Norm. Norm was also the person who converted the pages from the old to new format. See the Credits page for more info.

Redfish wrote:Haven't tried to download anything. This mainly because I'm into VT for earth at the moment.

There are 2 complete Earth Surface Virtual Textures, several Spec, Normal, Night, and Cloud VT maps, and over 40 VT close-ups available on the Earth page. What's stopping you?

Redfish wrote:Only one little comment. The menus on the right of the home page are not perfect. You can see the line of the bottom image. I think you should cut off the image a big higher so it fits nicely with the table background.

Not sure what browser you are using, but here is what the index page looks like with WinXp and Internet Explorer 6, at 1280 x 1024 ...

Cheers,