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Offline Fineus

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on: April 21, 2002, 02:38:25 am
Thats right ladies and gents, yours for the total sum of a 10Mb download - browse the galaxy in OpenGL from your desktop!

Click Me!

Seriously, this program rocks for anyone with a passing interest in the Galaxy, and it looks pretty as well :)
 

Offline Ulundel

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Reply #1 on: April 21, 2002, 02:46:31 am
w00t! This is cool!
*7 megs left* :D
 

Offline RoachKoach

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Reply #2 on: April 21, 2002, 02:50:12 am
downloading...
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Reply #3 on: April 21, 2002, 03:13:07 am
Hey, you guys wanna see something REALLY cool?  Focus on the Sun.  Then, turn on constelation views, so it draws lines between the stars in the constellations.  Next, click on another star somewhere in one of the constellations, then zoom in on it.  You'll realize how incredibly 3D those "flat" constellations are.  Totally unrecognizable from ANYWHERE but Earth.  I've always known it in my head, but now I've seen it....

This is an incredible piece of software - thanks for pointing it out!  (-:

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Offline Dr.Zer0

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Reply #4 on: April 21, 2002, 03:36:19 am
:jaw:  this is neat and I just opened it for just a few seconds :D
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Offline Setekh

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Reply #5 on: April 21, 2002, 03:36:26 am
Nice... I'm downloading as we speak. :nod: Cheers, T. :)
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Reply #6 on: April 21, 2002, 03:43:28 am
it remindes me of IW2 somehow ;) :nod:
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Offline Stunaep

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Reply #7 on: April 21, 2002, 03:54:23 am
Dowloading now....w00t
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Offline Dr.Zer0

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Reply #8 on: April 21, 2002, 04:07:02 am
everyone is downloading it seems, it would fo taken under a minute for me if it wasent for those freakin modem problems
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Reply #9 on: April 21, 2002, 04:26:50 am
I just got a wonderful idea, if we could just modify the Celestia engine and add an online multiplayer settings then transform it into 360o Node Wars 3D :drevil:
then possibly we could then make a single player version with AI, then that gose along with having game bots ;7 :drevil:
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Offline Kazashi

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Reply #10 on: April 21, 2002, 09:33:53 am
So long as it's an accurate and useful representation, and can possibly be modified to include more objects, then this looks like it could be good.


*adds to the growing list of 3D star maps*
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Offline wEvil

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Reply #11 on: April 21, 2002, 11:42:11 am
All I can say is - this is EXACTLY what i've been looking for.

An accurate 3D representation of the galaxy...is you just tagged a database onto it it will be better than redshift!

downloading now :)
 

Offline Mr. Vega

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Reply #12 on: April 21, 2002, 02:46:10 pm
:lol:, so Ikeya is an asteriod!
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Reply #13 on: April 21, 2002, 02:57:22 pm
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:lol:, so Ikeya is an asteriod!


and Capella dosent have any Shivans :(
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Offline wEvil

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Reply #14 on: April 21, 2002, 02:57:36 pm
Bugger.

It doesnt have eta carinae!!
 

Offline Dr.Zer0

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Reply #15 on: April 21, 2002, 03:16:45 pm
It dosent have Vasuda eather :(
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Reply #16 on: April 21, 2002, 04:01:45 pm
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Bugger.

It doesnt have eta carinae!!


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It dosent have Vasuda eather :(


Ahhh, but that's the beauty of an open source project.  Who needs the REAL galaxy, when we can create our own which'll be FAR more interesting.  

That's an amazing engine, by the way.  Wow.

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Offline Inquisitor

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Reply #17 on: April 21, 2002, 04:44:25 pm
Seems like the source is there...

neat, anyone mirrored this yet? the download rates is awful...
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Reply #18 on: April 21, 2002, 05:05:47 pm
well no more lurking around the internet just to research so I can make my Sol missions look more accurate :)

ekk, more background changes :sigh:
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Reply #19 on: April 21, 2002, 05:14:44 pm
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Originally posted by Inquisitor
Seems like the source is there...

neat, anyone mirrored this yet? the download rates is awful...


odd, I was downloading it at about 90 kb/s
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