Att: Gandholf
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- Corvo2
Cc: Nairn Escotum et alii fideles.
Hello.
New Stellarium version available for dl.
New improved menu, as far as I see.
Cheers.
- JSK0
Hi
Could you send me the link for dl? And let me know of the detailed specs on the improved menu.
Thank you
- JSK0
Hi again
Sorry, I actually found the link http://www.stellarium.org is this correct site? I am not seeing anything new and improved.
Cheers
- Nairn0
Ooh. thanks for the heads'up!
I wonder if my 3D spacenavigator could work in this?
- Corvo20
@JSK. Sorry, I should have posted the link. Well, the version I was running had a different menu. As far as I know it was released yesterday. Also, you're on Windows? That could explain it.
@ Nairn. np old chum. I have absolutely no idea what 3d spacenavigator is, though.
- Corvo20
Hey, Nairno - I tried to learn a bit more about 3D sn.
What's it about, anyway? Where does it differentiate from a common mouse apart from precision (that's what's they're selling on the 3Dconnexion site)?
Does it have special functions in 3D progs? (that would be interesting)
Does it connect with some freaky goggles?
- Horp0
I wish I had even a vague notion of what youa re all talking about.
- Nairn0
Aha, I got Celestia and Stellarium mixed up, it was the former that I'd be interested in using SpaceNavigator in, which sadly it doesn't. It does, however, work in stellarium - but only the rotational aspect, which is a bit mundane.
It's not so much a mouse as a multi-dimensional partner to the mouse when working in 3D. Where the mouse controls the editing of the objects the spacenavigator controls the interaction with the view. So, in Sketchup (for example) I can wield the SN as if it were the object itself, rotating it to rotate the obect, pushing or pulling it to ..er.. push it away or draw it close. I can push the top down to reduce the height of the camera, or pull it up to do the opposite. If I rock the device forward, so that it rolls rather than shifts forward, I can roll the device on screen.
It's quite a weird experience. But very useful and - indeed as the site says - very accurate when used. In Google Earth, I can use it to go to any point, at any angle at any speed essentially by just thinking about it. A couple of minor hand-position movements later and I'm where I want to be - having taken the exact camera angle I want in. Flying through the 3D buildings of New York is almost awe-inspiring.
So, the left hand moves either the object in virtual space, or your view in virtual space, freeing your mouse to dick around with the objects or button pressing as needed.
I've been fair proselytising about the damned thing since I got it last weekend!
- fuck me. I'm getting one.Corvo2
- I use a lot of GE SketchUp for drawings plans, actually. Sounds great. Ever tried it on Blender?Corvo2
- http://www.blender.o…Corvo2
- gramme0
THIS SOUNDS LIFE CHANGING I MUST KNOW
- Corvo20
^ You lazy bums :)
- Stellarium: real-time astronomy software for amateurs (stellarium.org)
- 3D spacenavigator: Nairn's delirium. It doesn't really exist.
- For newcomers: DL the stuff; setup your location (lat/long coords) and carry your laptop to a dark spot at night.Corvo2
- ghandolf0
Corvo - thanks for the head's up! I was just there last month looking for updates and didn't find one.
Thanks,
Cheers mang...
- Corvo20
Didn't get your nickname rightwards - I'm terribly sorry :\
Cheers Ghandolf.
I'm hitting the sack now, because it's been snowing up-hill and I'm going to take some photos tomorrow.
Also, Amazon finally delivered my Thomas Nashe's "Terrors of the Night", so I bid you not to be surprised if I test some of his sayings any time soon.
Godspeed.