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I'm very happy it finally happened! I guess some people, seeing Celestia only as distribution package, will be very surprised to see there is new version after ten years and next versions in progress

PlutonianEmpire wrote:My graphics drivers can not be updated. Intel stopped making drivers for my card in 2016 or so.

I have similar problem with nVidia 340xx legacy driver. I have to set on LEGACY_OPENGL_LIBS cmake variable.

Analysing code of GDX LongMap on github , I found strange initialization of a member variable: int tableSize = tableSize(initialCapacity, loadFactor); I haven't found any definition of method tableSize, so tried to search Internet for some kind of specific Java's int initialization, but found nothin...

Well, now I must disagree. Comparision with per year stats I have made sh ows no reasons for panic nor keeping people at home. If there are such a reasons, they are surely not tied to Covid-19 itself. Outdoor activity is one of the best thinks that helps keeping health I know. Thete is something muc...

it's a "fan project", in which he will add new spectral classes, both fictional, real and hypothetical Oh, I see. Btw I think stellar classess should be data driven. If Cel+ would implement it, it definitely should be backported to official code. The same with any useful change, fun or no...

Gurren Lagann wrote:This is an project that changes Celestia's code itself, and doesn't add any addons into it!

Great initiative, but is official repo maintained too bad to contribute there? Why dividing our effort?

I found the cause, I suspect it's related to threading. I used getObjectCompletion for search, which should cause a race if it is called not on the same thread as CelestiaCore's tick? I didnt know Celestia uses threading at all. I thought it uses loop reading messages from a queue provided by OS. N...

Here are the Python scripts for generating a stars.dat from the Gaia DR2 data Hi ajtribick ! I tried to read Your script to understand how Celestia index number is generated (for stars outside HIP and TYC) but failed (I'm not familair with Python). Could you describe it shortly? It looks like (from...

How do you generate stars.dat? More precisely, how do you generate main Celestia index numbers? Do you get them from some kind of existing catalogues or generate them from automat? If second case, could you make them packed one-by-one rather than scattered over vast range? I think would be much more...

onetwothree wrote:And octree has to be optimized.

Even more than currently? I will be impressed, if anyone make it so...

This unusual configuration poses a conundrum to stellar evolutionary theory, according to Terrell et al. (2003), since it is impossible for the two stars to have formed at the same time Actually, this is nothing unusuall, but standard astronomy have a long way to admit it. Most stars revolve in pai...

I have separate topic for it, but anyway it's worth to mention, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ThunderboltsProject

So, taking into account multiple confirmations that the very majority of virus' victimes already have had serious health problems, let me be allowed to mention that this situation reminds the importance of healthy lifestyle, which is a real prevention.

Lafuente_Astronomy wrote:I merely took it out from CO's files and released it as a separate addon.

I think entire CO should be distributed this way

If You disable gtk frontend, I'm sure it will not depend. Otherwise I dont know.

msdobrescu wrote:Is there some new/beta version to replace that?

Just look around...

As I said, I can't set my rank to admin. Specifically, I can't edit the administrator or developer groups. I think "rank" and "group" are technically independent. Rank is only visible as a text below nick, kind of "honorary title". Edit: Just for test I set Your rank t...

one thing I still can't do - but I think you can - is adding the missing developers to that user group. Hm, I changed their ranks, but cannot change group. Technically I can, but listing contains only current group. Also since you're a moderator, should I make your name green? Hm, I feel more like ...

SevenSpheres wrote:Thing is, I don't seem to have full admin permissions, because I can't make my name red. I'm above a moderator but maybe not quite an admin.

This is great anyway, so congratulations! And I like green

Lafuente_Astronomy wrote:That can be agreed upon. Just take your time, and do what you know beest, and eventually, it will come out great!

Yes, it's a best way! I have (too) often strange feeling I have to hurry up if I want to see my ideas in action before my death!