Celestial Sphere

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crlyttle
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Celestial Sphere

by crlyttle » Post

Is it possible to change the celestial sphere in Minetest? I would like to set it as seen on a particular date and latitude.
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Re: Celestial Sphere

by DrFrankenstone » Post

The skybox mod is one way to set the sky using 6 image files, and Stellarium is free software that can generate the night sky for any location and date and has a skybox script which will exports the 6 images you need.

Caveats: The sky image will be stationary - it won't turn from night to day, or rotate. And I've never tried making a skybox with Stellarium, so can't say how involved it is.

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Re: Celestial Sphere

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Thanks, I'll investigate. Looks like I can make skybox sets for the school and each problem.

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Re: Celestial Sphere

by crlyttle » Post

Got skybox.ssc to work with linux and generated the sides of the box. Looks good. Had to change only a few lines of code to remove some MSWindows only features. Now going to try to get it into Minetest.

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