Celestia Space Simulator

I created this short video to test how well celestia 1.5 runs on my computer when using very high resolution textures. I also took this opportunity to test the new Kdenlive 0.7 non-linear video editor! The video was created on GNU/linux using only free and open source software.
Background music by Niels Bassler. You can get the music from http://neptun.phys.au.dk/~bassler/electrolux/

http://shatters.net/celestia
http://kdenlive.org/

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Science & Technology

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• celestia
• linux
• space
• simulator
• kdenlive
• gnu
• gpl
• opensource
• celsps
• software
• howto
• meditation

[jabandrade]

Could someone tell me the name of this song? Or author?

[oz9aec]

@jabandrade You can now find a link to the music in the video description. It's free to download. Enjoy!

[bradhig]

how did you get the ISS textures to work? I downloaded the ISS completed from celestia motherlode and there are no textures on it.

[oz9aec]

As far as I remember I didn't do anything beyond following the instructions in the add-on pack. Maybe you tried a different pack? Or there might be some incompatibilities with the graphics card. I think some textures require opengl functionality that is not available in all cards.

[venera13studios]

orbiter is one of the better space sim's

[oz9aec]

@venera13studios I agree, Orbiter is a great simulator. Unfortunately it is only available for windows and I prefer to use linux and mac.

[theunraveler]

i find celestia's lack of violence disturbing...

[demonzsoul]

great, love the music

[ElHyperion]

Such a great program, why not showing more than just ISS

[ElHyperion]

@ejc45 it's a simulator or explorer but not a game. For more simulation search for Universe Sandbox, it's also on Steam. That is true space physics simulator showing you what would happen if Earth was as massive as Jupiter and so.

[ejc45]

@oz9aec How do you terraform a planet on Celestia?

[Neitss59139]

@oz9aec Excuse me but I think that this is also available on Linux !

[1337lolguyman]

The music reminded me of We Don't Go to Ravenholm, at least the beginning did.

[Rybread34]

I like the part were you orbit earth.

[johnmarkgeneral0123]

@oz9aec If Celestia 1.5 can be seen a planets?

[KrazyKommieKiller]

Who needs fancy space cruisers when you can play with the REAL earth space armada.

[PokemonMistysFan]

@oz9aec can u fly any spacecraft in celestia

[Eagle1Division2]

Orbiter has the best graphics I've ever seen about atmospheric haze. I just wish it'd support textures like the level 18 Earth for Celestia or these amazing cloud resolutions. Better yet, 3-d particle emitted clouds would look amazing.

To date, I have never, ever, seen anything that can come close to capturing the true beauty of Earth from space. Google pictures from Earth Orbit.