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oriol003
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Models into Celestia

Post #1by oriol003 » 24.06.2007, 02:16

Hi am new here! umm I was wondering how could I import some models into Celestia I got some .3ds with textures and all they are a few spacecrafts... . I want to make them orbit earth also. So if anyone could give me a hand and tell me where to start or show me a guide ill appreciate it :) Thanks in advance!

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Post #2by selden » 24.06.2007, 11:41

oriol003,

Welcome!

Persuading Celestia to display your models can be somewhat confusing.

You might try reading the Web page
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... intro.html

It tries to describe how Addons for Celestia should be organized. The second example shows how to display a model of a Nebula, although that isn't quite what you have in mind :-)

There are quite a few Addons on the Celestia MotherLode which display spacecraft in Celestia. You might consider looking at how some of them are organized.
http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/satellites.php
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Post #3by oriol003 » 24.06.2007, 22:40

Tanks ill look into it.


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