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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

17 Oct 2022 11:49

Stupid question about orientation! 
Let's say I want to center my camera on ROME, so I write in the consolle 
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Select Earth
Goto {Lon 12.4829321 Lat 41.8933203}   (Rome's coordinates)
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It works but the orientation is random (depends on where I was and what was my orientation before)
It is possible to have a script that end with North Pole up (like you see in geographic maps)?
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

19 Oct 2022 02:20

sarchiapone, to change camera orientation you need to specify 3 parameters, Yaw, Pitch and Roll. you can keep Pitch and Roll at 0, what you need to change is Yaw. In your case the command for turning the camera in North direction:
Goto {Lon 12.4829321 Lat 41.8933203 Yaw 0 Pitch 0 Roll 0}
South is Yaw 180 (degrees), East is Yaw 90 and so on.

I made a mod available on Steam Workshop with a camera positioning tool among other features, it comes with a list of cities around the world and the ability to add custom locations: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2431938249
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

29 Nov 2022 07:22

Are spacecrafts, satellites, space probes also simulated in SpaceEngine?
In would be nice to go back in time and see the launch of Apollo, Voyager, Hubble, etc and follow their journey.

Thank you
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

03 Dec 2022 19:22

sarchiapone, to change camera orientation you need to specify 3 parameters, Yaw, Pitch and Roll. you can keep Pitch and Roll at 0, what you need to change is Yaw. In your case the command for turning the camera in North direction:
Goto {Lon 12.4829321 Lat 41.8933203 Yaw 0 Pitch 0 Roll 0}
South is Yaw 180 (degrees), East is Yaw 90 and so on.

I made a mod available on Steam Workshop with a camera positioning tool among other features, it comes with a list of cities around the world and the ability to add custom locations: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2431938249
Wait, what?!  This is GREAT!  Can I use this to help me position my 8 cameras on each of my ships?
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

04 Dec 2022 06:21

No, if I understand correctly what you mean by "8 cameras", this doesn't affect camera views on ships
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

14 Dec 2022 11:41

About the system requirements for 0.9.9.0...While the site "can I run it" says I meet minimum requirements, your site says Windows 10. While I have a 64bit system, I run Windows 7, and will NEVER use Windows 10. So is Can I run it correct, or will I have issues if I buy it? Also, can I just buy it from you, I don't like using any third party platforms?
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

15 Dec 2022 05:15

No, if I understand correctly what you mean by "8 cameras", this doesn't affect camera views on ships
But if I want to view a certain landscape from a specific city can I use your mod to fly my spaceship right to that city?
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

15 Dec 2022 06:16

No, it doesn't work for spaceships
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

04 Jan 2023 10:23

Hey, I love your software! Just curious, what is the size of the average star in your universe?
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

11 Jan 2023 13:43

Something weird happened.....when I started SE today there was an update and it caused the FOV fonts to become much smaller and it unhid all my graphical menus.  But more importantly, it somehow randomized my playlist (and I don't know how to make the songs play in alphanumerical order like they played before, which is what I want), the playlist now plays randomly.  How do I get them to play in alphanumerical order like it was before? It says the new build is 1040.
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

30 Jan 2023 05:21

how can solar system chart be viewed in 3D? Image
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

28 Feb 2023 09:13

These are some basic scientific improvement suggestions for SE.

1. Fix the lighting. This is the most important. You can go to Eris or Sedna, click the automatic photo mode, face the sun and the landscape is blindingly light. This is of course incorrect. It would be good if SE actually featured realistic light levels. I had actually expected this after paying the fee.

2. A nice addition would be to limit the viewable stars by distance. I.e. have a slider that only shows stars within X lightyears, i.e. 4-5-6-7, etc.

The other stars could be disabled or a different color to aid location.
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

28 Feb 2023 09:16

These are some basic scientific improvement suggestions for SE.

1. Fix the lighting. This is the most important. You can go to Eris or Sedna, click the automatic photo mode, face the sun and the landscape is blindingly light. This is of course incorrect. It would be good if SE actually featured realistic light levels. I had actually expected this after paying the fee.

2. A nice addition would be to limit the viewable stars by distance. I.e. have a slider that only shows stars within X lightyears, i.e. 4-5-6-7, etc.

The other stars could be disabled or a different color to aid location.
PS: The distance could also work in reverse. From farthest to closest if desired
 
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

11 Mar 2023 10:26

You can go to Eris or Sedna, click the automatic photo mode, face the sun and the landscape is blindingly light. This is of course incorrect. (insert "I can't believe I paid for this" here)
Look at this horridly "incorrect" image of Pluto, taken by the New Horizons probe in 2015!
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Why does it come as such a big shocker to you that the automatic photo mode increases your ISO (or 'exposure' as SpaceEngine calls it for non-photographers, which is wrong but forgivable) so that you can see what's in front of you? It's AUTOMATIC photo mode, for pete's sake! Drop the self-righteousness. There's no issue to fix in the first place.
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Re: General questions about SpaceEngine

12 Mar 2023 15:34

My Olympus M43 cameras do the same thing when in "Live View Boost" mode, they increase the gain to make star clusters visible in the live view LCD even in areas of high light pollution. Very useful for proper framing and for using manual focus.  The only drawback is the frame rate goes down (but who cares about that for astrophotography).

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