Illustrating Manticore

An Addon for Celestia
v1.0

by Ensign Re-read and Selden Ball
© December, 2011. All rights reserved.

Contents

Introduction

This Addon for Celestia provides a rendering of the Manticore star system, inspired by books by David Weber.

Information about Celestia is available at http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

If you restore this Zip file into Celestia's Extras directory, it should recreate all of the directories and files necessary for the Addon to work with Celestia v1.6.1 or later.

Usage

Each of the following methods of viewing this Addon provides a different set of experiences.

Limitations: opportunities for you to enhance this Addon

Please contact one of the authors of this Addon if you would like to provide enhancements to be incorporated into the next version of this Addon. Each of us can be reached on the Weber forum at http://forums.davidweber.net/ as "Ensign Re-read" and "selden", respectively.

Also, please don't hesitate to create your own Addons which can be used in conjunction with this one, or by themselves.

Known Defects

Sometimes models are drawn bright red instead of shaded. This happens when Celestia tries to apply more lighting effects than are allowed by the OpenGL shader routines. It's a side effect of being illuminated by two suns and having to draw planet-shine and eclipse shadows caused by both suns at the same time. Some workarounds are to turn off some of the shading effects (eclipse shadows, for example), or to tell Celestia not to use OpenGL v2.0 shading: type a Ctrl-V several times while Celestia is running.

Credits

This Addon was inspired by a series of books about Honor Harrington and the Star Kingdom of Manticore, written by David Weber. For more information, visit http://www.davidweber.net/

Some of the information used to create this Addon was obtained from publications by Ad Astra Games. For more information, visit http://www.adastragames.com/

Additional information was found on the Web sites http://honorverse.wikia.com/ and http://honorverseglossary.wikispaces.com/

The models included in this Addon were created using Anim8or, a free 3D design program written by Steve Glanville. For more information, visit http://www.anim8or.com/

The planet surface textures included in this Addon were created using Planet, a free program written by Torben Æ. Mogensen. For more information, visit http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Planet/

Copyright and license

This Addon for Celestia was created by Selden Ball and Ensign Re-read. It is Copyright © December, 2011. All rights reserved.

This Addon may be freely redistributed for educational purposes. All included models and documents were created entirely by the authors. They may not be used for any commercial benefit without explicit written permission from the authors.

Ensign Re-read and Selden Ball
December, 2011