dmzeplin Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmzeplin Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 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?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmzeplin Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmzeplin Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 (edited) Where can I edit in xplanet? Look like it is in default (/home/myname/.xplanet/config/default) Edited February 23, 2005 by dmzeplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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