- That covers the very basics. For a more in-depth look at Celestia and the controls available to you, download the "Celestia User's Guide" (written by Frank Gregorio), available in several languages, from: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html. This web page also includes links to the Celestia README file translated into Japanese.
+ That covers the very basics. For a more in-depth look at Celestia and the controls available to you, download the "Celestia User's Guide" (written by Frank Gregorio), available in several languages, from: https://celestia.space/guides.html.
- For up-to-the-minute answers to some common problems encountered when running Celestia, please view either the FAQ under Table of Contents (to the left) or take a look at the "Celestia User's FAQ" located on the Celestia User's Forum: www.shatters.net/forum.
+ For up-to-the-minute answers to some common problems encountered when running Celestia, please view either the FAQ under Table of Contents (to the left) or take a look at the "Celestia User's FAQ" located on the Celestia User's Forum: celestia.space/forum.
- This list of controls was current as of Celestia version 1.6.0. If you notice that a command is missing or incorrect, please write a message in the Celestia Bugs forum, located at: http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=3.
+ This list of controls was current as of Celestia version 1.6.0. If you notice that a command is missing or incorrect, please write a message in the Celestia Bugs forum, located at: https://celestia.space/forum/viewforum.php?f=3.
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Disable Celestia's vertex shaders: edit celestia.cfg (with a plain text editor) to remove the # at the start of this line
# IgnoreGLExtensions [ "GL_ARB_vertex_program" ]
Disable 3D hardware graphics acceleration. You find that under Windows in the display properties.
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If none of these work for you, please ask for help in the Celestia Help Forum.
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If none of these work for you, please ask for help in the Celestia Help Forum.
- Report the exact circumstances and details of your system, graphics hardware and software in the Celestia Bugs forum.
+ Report the exact circumstances and details of your system, graphics hardware and software in the Celestia Bugs forum.
Celestia runs on many different hardware and software configurations. It is not appropriate to ask people to guess what you have. For example:
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Some of the graphics information can be found in Celestia's Help menu under "OpenGL Info..." Under Windows more details can be found in the Control Panel's Display Properties menu.
- You can also report bugs on the SourceForge bug tracker; but before you do so, please check in the Celestia Bugs forum if it has already been reported or solved.
+ You can also report bugs on the GitHub bug tracker; but before you do so, please check in the Celestia Bugs forum if it has already been reported or solved.
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An example .CEL script is Celestia's own start.cel, which is on your computer in Celestia's main directory.
Selden's Celestia Resources website includes a list of some of the more recently added .CEL scripting commands, but they're rather cryptically organized.
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Information can also be found in the Scripting section of the Celestia Wikibook.
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Selden's Celestia Resources website includes a list of some of the more recently added .CEL scripting commands, but they're rather cryptically organized.
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Information can also be found in the Scripting section of the Celestia Wikibook.
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The Lua programming language is available for use in .CELX scripts. See http://www.lua.org/.
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Note: Scripts may be in any folder. But it helps with your organization of your Celestia folders if you keep them in a folder named /scripts/.
Also, don't forget that Celestia models the shape of the Earth using a spheroid. The actual shape of our planet is much more complicated.
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- A good start is the documentation on the Celestia Website and the pages on the Celestia Motherlode documentation. For example an introductory User's Guide by Frank Gregorio is available in English. Translations into German, French and a few other languages also are available. Consider providing a translation into another language yourself.
+ A good start is the documentation on the Celestia Website and the pages on the Celestia Motherlode documentation. For example an introductory User's Guide by Frank Gregorio is available in English. Translations into German, French and a few other languages also are available. Consider providing a translation into another language yourself.
- An other good place to look for or ask for additional information is the Celestia Forum. You'll find lots of friendly people there. Selden Ball's website has pointers to additional documentation on catalog files (SSC, STC, DSC), planet surface textures, etc. Also you can find information in the Celestia WikiBook.
+ An other good place to look for or ask for additional information is the Celestia Forum. You'll find lots of friendly people there. Selden Ball's website has pointers to additional documentation on catalog files (SSC, STC, DSC), planet surface textures, etc. Also you can find information in the Celestia WikiBook.
On the Celestia Motherlode there are also many other Celestia resources and addons for download.
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- Get the most recent Celestia installation file from SourceForge. They have many mirrors for best performance. Official prerelease versions are announced in the Celestia Web Forum in its Users Forum.
+ Get the most recent Celestia installation file from GitHub. Official prerelease versions are announced in the Celestia Web Forum in its Development Forum.
- The developers maintain a list of all new functionality and bug fixes in the Celestia ChangeLog, which is located at SourceForge. Look at the top-most entry in the list, to the right of where it says "Revision #.##", click the "(view)" link to display the most recent ChangeLog.
+ The developers maintain a list of all new functionality and bug fixes in the Celestia ChangeLog, which is located at GitHub. Look at the top-most entry in the list, to the right of where it says "Revision #.##", click the "(view)" link to display the most recent ChangeLog.
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Cel:// URLs run the copy of Celestia that is in the folder named Celestia. If you want to change back to using your old Celestia that way, just rename the directories again: rename Celestia to be Celestia160 and rename Celestia151 to be Celestia.
Special thanks go to all Celestia users who submit bug reports, suggestions, and fixes. Celestia wouldn't be the program it is today, without their help.