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Martin Steen
From Braunschweig (Germany)
Who joined Sept. 25, 2007, 2 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 22, 2008, 4:50 p.m...

Hello!

I just have released version 1.2 of the astronomical application "Die Planeten"
for Irix and Windows.

The homepage of the project is:
http://www.martin-steen.de/dieplaneten/ ... en-en.html

The main changes are:

- zooming with right mouse (important for original SGI mouse)
- Uranus ring
- Uranus- and Neptun moons
- Moon names
- Anaglyph mode ( http://www.martin-steen.de/dieplaneten/anaglyph/anaglyph-en.html )
- Version information ("about box")
- Improved textures for some planets
- JPEG-Textures instead of TGA, resulting in smaller files
- Language and planet settings are saved

For those who discover problems with missing GLUT-libraries, there is a link
to the nekoware glut package on the project homepage.

Best regards, Martin

dexter1
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From Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
Who joined Feb. 20, 2003, 6:57 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 23, 2008, 12:33 a.m...

i just checked on your website, it looks awesome!

tomo
From Europe, Slovakia - Trencin
Who joined Jan. 18, 2008, 2:53 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 23, 2008, 5:21 a.m...

Looks fine I will check it when come home!

Nice work...

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zizban
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From Cheshire, MA
Who joined Dec. 21, 2003, 5:59 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 23, 2008, 6:09 a.m...

It's really good.

Small quibble: Venus rotates clockwise, unlike the rest of the planets. Your Venus has the wrong rotation.

Martin Steen
From Braunschweig (Germany)
Who joined Sept. 25, 2007, 2 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 2, 2009, 2:43 p.m...

Hi!

There is a new version of "Die Planeten".

http://www.martin-steen.de/dieplaneten/ ... sgi.tar.gz

New in Version 1.3:

- Displays the whole solar system with the sun
- Orbits of the moons and planets are shown
- "-lame" commandline switch for machines without hardware-OpenGL

(testet on SGI-Fuel/V10)

Best regards, Martin

foetz
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Who joined April 14, 2003, 4:34 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 2, 2009, 3:40 p.m...

great!
thanks!!

hamei
From over the rainbow
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 3, 2009, 5:25 a.m...

Martin Steen wrote: Hi!
There is a new version of "Die Planeten".

Martin, this program is phenomenal. Fullscreen with the Earth blown up big it's my new screensaver.

For the next version, could you make the information and control windows separable ? If it were just the planet on a black background it would be absolutely perfect. Maybe make the background even blacker, if that's possible.

I could sit and watch this thing for hours .. but where's the ice caps ? You could drive a freighter from Shanghai to New York over the north pole right now ...

thank you, a lot

Dr. Dave
From Ottawa, Canada >burp<
Who joined Feb. 13, 2004, 10:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 3, 2009, 8:34 a.m...

Worked great on an RM5200/300 O2!

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Once you step up to the big iron, you learn all about physics, electrical standards, and first aid - usually all in the same day

Martin Steen
From Braunschweig (Germany)
Who joined Sept. 25, 2007, 2 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 3, 2009, 2:18 p.m...

hamei wrote:

Martin Steen wrote: Hi!
There is a new version of "Die Planeten".

Martin, this program is phenomenal. Fullscreen with the Earth blown up big it's my new screensaver.

For the next version, could you make the information and control windows separable ? If it were just the planet on a black background it would be absolutely perfect. Maybe make the background even blacker, if that's possible.

I could sit and watch this thing for hours .. but where's the ice caps ? You could drive a freighter from Shanghai to New York over the north pole right now ...

thank you, a lot

Thank you hamei! :-)

You are right, the earth looks different from space. That's why I'm going to replace the earth-map with the "blue marble"-texture.

BTW: there are indeed plans to route ships from Europa to Asia via the so called "Northwest passage".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage

Best regards, Martin

EDIT: you can shift the interface by hitting the SPACE bar.
To see the "blue marble" texture as in the attachment, just replace
the file
planeten/erde.jpg
with this file:
http://www.martin-steen.de/dieplaneten/ ... e/erde.jpg

canavan
Who joined July 21, 2003, 6:19 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 4, 2009, 6:04 a.m...

zizban wrote: Venus rotates clockwise, unlike the rest of the planets. Your Venus has the wrong rotation.

Apparently fixed in 1.3, but it's still spinning 24 times too fast, its rotation period is 243 days not hours. Also, the north poles of all planets are precisely orthogonal to the ecliptic plane, while they should be tilted by e.g. 23 degrees for earth or 97 degrees for Uranus, and all the planets orbital planes should be slightly inclined to one another, not all in a single plane. But it does indeed look good.

eMGee
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Wrote the following at Oct. 4, 2009, 5:32 p.m...

Very nice, it looks great. I ought to check it out! (I'll try to as soon as I can).

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samus
Who joined Sept. 19, 2007, 2:50 p.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 4, 2009, 9:10 p.m...

i get "cannot successfully map soname libglut.so" under any of the filenames /usr/lib32/libglut.so:/usr/lib32/internal/lut.so:/lib32/libglut.so/opt/lib32/libglut.so.1:/opt/lib32/libglut.so.1:

i installed the glut package from the nekoware ports but still no luck..

Dr. Dave
From Ottawa, Canada >burp<
Who joined Feb. 13, 2004, 10:37 p.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 4, 2009, 9:21 p.m...

I had to do a symlink to get it to work, as /usr/nekoware/lib doesn't seem to be in the internal library path. I think I linked it to the regular SGI lib directory, that is linked an entry to the Nekoware libglut in the system library directory, as the path to this was in the error message as one of the directories it checks. This can also likely be fixed with an environment path variable, perhaps someone can come up with a cleaner, less hacky way of doing this.,

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ln -s /usr/nekoware/lib/libglut.so /usr/lib32/libglut.so

Think this is what I did, but may have that wrong. If it doesn't work it's close. Someone feel free to correct me if it isn't right.

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Once you step up to the big iron, you learn all about physics, electrical standards, and first aid - usually all in the same day

nuts
Who joined Nov. 3, 2008, 11:27 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 5, 2009, 6:41 a.m...

it doesn't work for me

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./dieplaneten-sgi


GLUT: Fatal Error in dieplaneten-sgi: visual with necessary capabilities not found.

Martin Steen
From Braunschweig (Germany)
Who joined Sept. 25, 2007, 2 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 5, 2009, 7:21 a.m...

nuts wrote: it doesn't work for me

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./dieplaneten-sgi GLUT: Fatal Error in dieplaneten-sgi: visual with necessary capabilities not found.

What machine do you have?

nuts
Who joined Nov. 3, 2008, 11:27 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 5, 2009, 7:55 a.m...

Octane with IRIX 6.5.30f.

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hinv


1 250 MHZ IP30 Processor


CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.4


FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0


Main memory size: 384 Mbytes


Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.3


Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes


Data cache size: 32 Kbytes


Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte


Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0


Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2


IOC3 parallel port: plp1


Graphics board: ESI


Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2


Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1




glxinfo


display: :0


server glx vendor string: SGI


server glx version string: 1.3 Irix 6.5


server glx extensions (GLX_):


EXT_import_context, EXT_visual_info, EXT_visual_rating,


SGI_make_current_read, SGI_swap_control, SGI_video_sync, SGIX_fbconfig,


SGIX_pbuffer, SGIX_swap_group.


client glx version 1.3


client glx extensions (GLX_):


EXT_import_context, EXT_visual_info, EXT_visual_rating,


SGI_make_current_read, SGI_swap_control, SGI_video_sync, SGIX_fbconfig,


SGIX_pbuffer, SGIX_swap_group.


OpenGL vendor string: SGI


OpenGL renderer string: IMPACT/1/1/0


OpenGL version string: 1.1 Irix 6.5


OpenGL extensions (GL_):


EXT_abgr, EXT_blend_color, EXT_blend_logic_op, EXT_blend_minmax,


EXT_blend_subtract, EXT_convolution, EXT_copy_texture, EXT_histogram,


EXT_packed_pixels, EXT_polygon_offset, EXT_subtexture, EXT_texture,


EXT_texture3D, EXT_texture_object, EXT_vertex_array, SGI_color_matrix,


SGI_color_table, SGI_texture_color_table, SGIS_texture_filter4,


SGIX_list_priority, SGIX_texture_scale_bias.


glu version: 1.3 Irix 6.5


glu extensions (GLU_):


EXT_abgr, EXT_nurbs_tessellator, EXT_object_space_tess, EXT_packed_pixels,


EXT_texture, SGI_filter4_parameters.




visual  x  bf lv rg d st  r  g  b a  ax dp st accum buffs  ms


id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro sz sz sz sz bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b


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0x20  8 pc  .  8  . c  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .


0x22  8 pc  y  8  1 c  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .


0x23  8 pc  .  8  1 c  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .


0x24 12 pc  . 12  . b  .  . 12  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .


0x25 12 pc  . 12  . b  y  . 12  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .


0x26 12 tc  . 16  . r  y  .  4  4  4  4  .  .  . 16 16 16 16  . .


0x27 15 tc  . 16  . r  y  .  5  5  5  1  .  .  . 16 16 16 16  . .


0x28 24 tc  . 32  . r  .  .  8  8  8  8  .  .  . 16 16 16 16  . .

I use a custom resolution (1680x1050) with 24bits colors.

nuts
Who joined Nov. 3, 2008, 11:27 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 6, 2009, 5:12 a.m...

I found why it doesn't work: my 1680x1050 file has smoething wrong. it works when I switch to 1280x1024_60 standard resolution

Martin Steen
From Braunschweig (Germany)
Who joined Sept. 25, 2007, 2 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 6, 2009, 5:17 a.m...

nuts wrote: Octane with IRIX 6.5.30f.

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0x28 24 tc . 32 . r . . 8 8 8 8 . . . 16 16 16 16 . .

I use a custom resolution (1680x1050) with 24bits colors.

Hmm. Maybe there is no doublebuffering in 24-bit-colormode.

Do other OpenGL programs run (e.G. the "cube demo")?
http://www.sgi.faktor0.de/cube.html

-Martin

nuts
Who joined Nov. 3, 2008, 11:27 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 6, 2009, 5:47 a.m...

It didn't work with my last 1680x1050_60 file, and nor celestia and blender worked. I try 1280x1024_60. it works, but I don't know why, I have blue sun with die-planeten.

I re-create a 1680x1050_60. celestia, blender and die-planeten run, but I have a lot of artfacts and stanges colors.
I'll try the cube
celestia

cube

die-planeten

Martin Steen
From Braunschweig (Germany)
Who joined Sept. 25, 2007, 2 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 6, 2009, 6:48 a.m...

nuts wrote: It didn't work with my last 1680x1050_60 file, and nor celestia and blender worked. I try 1280x1024_60. it works, but I don't know why, I have blue sun with die-planeten.

I re-create a 1680x1050_60. celestia, blender and die-planeten run, but I have a lot of artfacts and stanges colors.
I'll try the cube

Weird. I must confess that I don't have a clue.
When you press the "e"-key while running the cube-demo,
does that change anything?
("e" switches environment texture mapping)

Maybe one of the expert here has an idea.

-Martin