New bugfix release 1.6.2-beta1

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

The resulting error of forcing 1.6.2 to work under Mac OS X 10.6.8 by editing its plist file.

[Markerz]

The resulting error of forcing 1.6.2 to work under Mac OS X 10.6.8 by editing its plist file.
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Minimum support is 10.7, it is almost impossible to ship one binary with current development tool to support both below 10.7 and above 10.7 since there is major C++ library support change in 10.7.

[LukeCEL]

How can I get my Celestia 1.6.2 bundle to always open in fullscreen? (I'm on MacOS, by the way.)

[Markerz]

How can I get my Celestia 1.6.2 bundle to always open in fullscreen? (I'm on MacOS, by the way.)

I don't think it is possible on macOS with current version

[selden]

CMOD Specularity Bug in 1.6.2

If a specularmap image file is specified in a CMOD model, that image is ignored by v1.6.2 (and by v1.6.1). It works in v1.7.0. It'd be nice if the fix could be backported to v1.6.2.

The attached Addon provides an ASCII CMOD model (models/planet.cmod) and surface texture images in textures/medres (planet.jpg and planet-spec.jpg) which demonstrate this bug.

The accompanying cmod-spec-bug.html provides a CEL:// URL which takes you to a viewpoint which demonstrates this bug: The entire surface of the front facet of the "planet" is incorrectly drawn as bright white when viewed in v1.6.2, but when viewed in v1.7.0, the "land" areas are correctly not reflective.

The attached framegrabs cmod-spec-bug_1.6.2.png and cmod-spec-bug_1.7.0.png show these results.

specularity bug in 1.6.2

bug is fixed in 1.7.0

cmod_spec_bug.zip

Zip of Addon to demonstrate the bug

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[onetwothree]

The aim of 1.6.2 is to provide 1.6.1 on modern (read as 64bit) systems not to add new features.

[selden]

I think you may have overlooked part of what I wrote. To expand on it: this is a *bug* in v1.6.1 which should be fixed in v1.6.2 if at all possible. specularmap textures specified in CMOD files were documented to work in v1.6.1 but do not.

[onetwothree]

There were requests to backport extended locations from 1.7 to 1.6.2. Please test attached files (win32/64).

[Anthony_B_Russo10]

Seven, please upload these to files to the archive repository.

[onetwothree]

why do you need them there?

[SevenSpheres]

Seven, please upload these to files to the archive repository.

No, these are test builds. I don't upload the 1.7.0 testing builds there.

onetwothree: are there files with the extended locations to test with?

[onetwothree]

no, i don't have them, maybe only saturn rings in 1.7 if i remember correctly

[SevenSpheres]

Just tested, doesn't work.

Stock 1.6.2-beta2 with locations enabled:

Test build from this thread + ring_locs.ssc from CelestiaContent, with locations enabled:

IMO backporting the new location types to 1.6.2 isn't necessary; all that needs to be done now is to update the changelog, update the "INSTALLING IN UNIX AND LINUX" section of the readme file, update data (I need to get around to doing that), and possibly fix this bug.

[onetwothree]

i fixed locations but not able to build it using VS as i don't have it now.

[onetwothree]

Fixed backported locations, windows build:

• 64bit

  celestia-1.6.2-beta3pre2-locations-x86_64.zip

  (3.59 MiB) Downloaded 59 times

• 32bit

  celestia-1.6.2-beta3pre2-locations-x86.zip

  (3.15 MiB) Downloaded 51 times

[gironde]

We're starting to get lost in the celestia 1.6.2 beta1, beta2, beta3 versions
You should open one thread per beta version.

[selden]

Low priority: There's a spurious character prefixing the copyright symbol in the About text. See the screengrab below, where I've underlined it in red.

spurious copyright prefix

[LukeCEL]

Can we get a macOS build for 1.6.2-beta3? Thanks in advance!

[gironde]

Is there a difference between lua5.1.dll in celestia 1.6.1 (172ko for mine) and lua51.dll (683ko) in celestia 1.6.2.
Curiously, the results with Lua Universal Tools are not the same. (with the same files)

celestia 1.6.1 or EP V3

celestia 1.6.2

The box elevators are gone.
Why such a size difference between the 2 dll files ?

[onetwothree]

In 1.6.2 I use luajit instead of plain lua 5.1. It's faster.

Your issue with scroll bars is very interesting, I don't think it's caused by lua51.dll, something else is to blame.

Added after 15 minutes 30 seconds:
You can replace lua51.dll in 1.6.2 using the version from 1.6.1 and check if you have scrollbars.

Added after 12 minutes 18 seconds:
Checked both LUA implementations - no difference.