Celestia on Ubuntu 8.10 Demo Video
As a follow-up to my post about Celestia, here’s a video produced of the demo mode. It was created on my Toshiba Satellite laptop (AMD Turion X2, 3 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 3100 256 MB). If you create your own videos from Celestia sequences, please be aware that the real-time frame rate will drop considerably while video recording is in progress; this is normal, due to the need to grab a lot of information from the animation.
As a side note, to capture video in the Ubuntu version of Celestia, simply (1) get to the point where you want to start recording, and press the spacebar to pause your display, (2) click File -> Capture Movie, (3) enter a filename to save the movie as and choose your desired quality options, (4) press the spacebar to resume your animation, and (5) immediately press F11 to start recording. To stop the recording, press F12. Enjoy!
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26 Mar 09 at 18:49
Nice video but why didn’t you travel to another star? Then another galaxy? That’s probably the greatest feature of Celestia – just click on the object and press G for go.
Celestia Fan
27 Mar 09 at 16:30
Thanks for the feedback
. This was just a video of Celestia’s “demo mode.” I’ll probably create another one showing my favorite highlights around the universe.
Phil
28 Mar 09 at 01:06