Mind to help again with Xplanet?

[dmzeplin]

I have followed pretty well with download Xplanet and set up in background without clouds... My questions:

 

1) obtain a cloud map

2) tell Xplanet to use it

 

What I did step by step, is to click "" to fetch one of script "http://xplanet.nerp.net/clouds_2048.php" by click on it.

 

Then, I returned to Xplanet site, to follow to type for telling Xplanet "/usr/X11R6/share/xplanet/config" in root.

 

I typed in root, "cloud_map=/home/dmzeplin/clouds_2048.jpg". I ALSO, copied folder from /usr/X11R6/share/xplanet/ to /home/dmzeplin/xplanet.

 

Will that be it for now and wait for 3 hours to get clouds involved?

[dmzeplin]

I am adding one more thing, since the earth looked the same and stay at same position with "south africa"??

 

no clouds yet... Pray I didn't go any worse??

[devries]

1: copy the xplanet folder (/usr/X11R6/share/xplanet/config) to /home/<your name>/ and rename it .xplanet (that way you can tweak things as a normal user and not as root. Much better that way).

 

2: Go to /home/<your name>/.xplanet/config and open the default file. Go to the line: cloud_map=<and put here a path to the clouds.jpg. Mine is /home/<my name>/tmp>

 

3: open the cloud_download.pl script with a text editor and change the line: my $Filename = "/home/<your name>/tmp (or where you want it) /clouds.jpg";

 

4: open a console and type: perl dowload_clouds.pl to see if it works.

 

5: open kcron (have a look at the previous topic for a screenshot with an example) and add a job.

 

In the default file you can also add line for marker_file=<path to marker files>. Look in the marker map in .xplanet for examples or generate some with Totalmarker.

 

For South Africa: add this to the options in the KDE xplanet edit. --latitude 52 --longitude 4 (well this is Amsterdam but change it for where you want it). Or --random will give you random viewpoints. Read the http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/README for more options (I like --projection azimuthal very much :) )

 

Have fun.

[dmzeplin]

I found it after it disappeared when rename it to .xplanet from "Open Location". I assume it is supposed to become "invisible" after rename it?

 

I went to console and typed: perl download_clouds.pl, but it said:

 

Can't open perl script "download_clouds.pl": No such file or directory.

 

Look like I didn't success download script?

Edited February 23, 2005 by dmzeplin

[dmzeplin]

Where can I edit in xplanet? Look like it is in default (/home/myname/.xplanet/config/default)

Edited February 23, 2005 by dmzeplin