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lcfcfan
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 01:27
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This is a program i have been making for the past few weeks and is my first finished project and will be releasing it when i get somewhere to host it, anyone wanna host it for me?

will be finished in a few hours so if anyone is interested let me know.

here is a screen shot



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Powersoft
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 03:45
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looks good.



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lcfcfan
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 04:09
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We just had that bit of extra quality at the end tho.

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Powersoft
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 04:34
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lcfcfan
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 05:32
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won't be when we win the championship

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Philip
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 06:15
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Nice picture of Mars. Looks to me like a sphere textured with the Mars image from NASA's website (which has been copied onto about a gazillion other websites). I think I'm right in guessing that as I also have that exact texture.

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lcfcfan
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 06:18
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thats venus dude

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lcfcfan
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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 07:54
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it's completed need host tho

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The Videogameaholic
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Posted: 14th Aug 2004 17:45
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I've found that http://www.dbspot.com is a good host.

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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 15th Aug 2004 03:44
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venus is a gas giant - yet it is glosy in your pic ummm...

try to make it less glosy - it will add realisim


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lcfcfan
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Posted: 15th Aug 2004 06:06
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it's not glossy just the light from the sun, and venus is not a gas giant it's smaller rocky planet like earth (i did do my research) that's close to the sun.
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lcfcfan
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Posted: 15th Aug 2004 06:07
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and i tried uploading to dbspot which took me an hour cos i'm on 56k then i got an error message.
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Peter H
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Posted: 15th Aug 2004 09:10 Edited at: 15th Aug 2004 09:10
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use wakehosting...if it's under 10MBs

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Surreal Studio IanG
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ahhh - im getting confused again, im not a big fan of the solar system

they should rename them like that big gassy one and that small rocky thing

that would be better


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Zero Blitzt
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Mercury-Rock
Venus-Rock
Earth-Rock/Water
Mars-Rock with frozen water
Jupiter-Gas with 1 ring
Saturn-Gas with tons of rings
Uranus-Gas with an average amount of rings
Neptune-Gas with 4 faint rings
Pluto-Rock

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Posted: 16th Aug 2004 04:55
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If you try uploading to DBSpot using the standard ftp program and the upload takes longer than 30 secs, then it won't work. Try uploading with another ftp program like SmartFTP. It's free and very good. http://www.smartftp.com

Looking good!


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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 16th Aug 2004 06:31
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remember that pluto is not a planet - it is too small to be a planet

i think pluto is technically classed as an asteriod but i'm not sure


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French gui
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Posted: 16th Aug 2004 07:26
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The Venus texture that you use can only be seen like that by a satellite placed very close from the surface. At the distance shown on your screenshoot, it look like earth with it's blue apparence and clouds.This appart what can do your programm? Is it a astronomical travel across the solar system?

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JeBuS
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There is no set rule as to what defines the classification as planet. Some people think a planet is a body that has sufficient mass to form a spherical shape (which Pluto does) while others believe a planet has to be a certain size. The issue has not yet been resolved one way or the other, but if the first definition is taken, there will likely be 5 to 10 more bodies in our solar system which should be classified as planets, including a very large asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

I forget what it's called right now, but there's some international association of astronomers that is supposed to meet some time in the next year or so, and hopefully they can bang out a definition for us.
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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 16th Aug 2004 22:29
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scientifically pluto is the biggest asteriod in our solar system - if it is classed as a planet then many asteriods in the asteriod belt will have to be classed as planets


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Code Machine
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Posted: 17th Aug 2004 00:20
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I'm studying Astronomy in Uni at the moment so maybe I can clarify some of this

The Kuiper belt is a region in the outer solar-system where there are many large asteroids orbitting the sun, similar to the asteroid belt (which exists between Mars and Jupiter), but outside the orbit of Pluto.

As far as I know, Pluto is still 'officially' a planet, but most astronomers consider it to be a very large Kuiper belt object, rather than a planet. Its status as a planet is mainly a historical one, but if discovered today, it would almost certainly be classed as a Kuiper belt object I feel. It isn't totally spherical, it's 'moon' is almost as big as itself, and it has a highly eccentric (i.e. non-circular) orbit unlike the other planets, plus there are some other key differences I can't quite remember now. I'm not 100% up-to-date with this, since it isn't my field, but that's what the current belief is.


@JeBuS - you weren't refering to the IAU by any chance?
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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 17th Aug 2004 00:46
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what uni do you study at?


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Code Machine
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Cardiff Uni in the UK
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JeBuS
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Posted: 17th Aug 2004 04:31
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yeah, IAU sounds right... They are meeting some time soon aren't they? (or did that pass already?)
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I think next year is right, but they have so many meetings for so many different fields, it's hard to keep track of it all.
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Ric
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Hey, lcfcfan - we have two things in common! I'm an lcfc fan too (Lincoln City, that is), and I too am coding a virtual planetarium. I would like to see what you've done as soon as you get it hosted. Try aloofhosting.com - they're very good. I do agree that Venus looks a bit glossy in the pic. Perhaps IanG was thinking 'gas giant' because Venus does have an atmosphere which would diffuse a lot of the light from the Sun. If it is a sphere I would suggest adding a slightly larger, ghosted sphere as an outer layer, and play around with object emmisive, specular, diffuse etc.
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lcfcfan
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Posted: 4th Sep 2004 06:42
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hey been away for a few weeks still not got it hosted yet hopefully soon though.
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Xander
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Yeah, that does look more like Mars, except it has no ice caps. Venus is more of a yellowish color, it's clouds are highly sulfuric. And clouds aren't shiny. I made a small space application once, and found that a ghosted sphere just larger than the planet with a good cloud texture looked really awesome. Just don't make it shiny.

It looks really cool, though.

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lcfcfan
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Posted: 7th Sep 2004 07:00
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looks like i'm gonna have to wait till i get broadband in about a month before i upload it cos it keeps failing on my 56k. thanx for all the comments and ill hopefully have a download available next month guess i can just add to it till then.
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ALPHA ZERO PRODUCTIONS
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vampyre why did u never ask me to make u models ???

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Prime_8
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could you chop it up in to a few zip files .. less likely to crap out during up load .. and other modem users my like the stepped download .

just a thought.

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