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Celestia/1.6.0 Features

Triaxial ellipsoids for solar system bodies
SourceForge feature tracker item 1662019

Code change, plus catalog updates. Code change is complete, but some discussion of specifics required before checkin.

How should triaxial ellipsoids be specified? For stars, we specify the shape with SemiAxes [ x y z ] and this is multiplied by the radius. But this is slightly inconvenient for planets, where we'd like to be able to simply write:

Mimas {    SemiAxes [ 209.1 196.2 191.4 ] }

However, it would be unfortunate to have star and planet sizes specified in different ways. We could have things both ways with a slightly more complex definition of how the Radius and SemiAxes interact:

 * SemiAxes specified, no Radius given: body semiaxes are (sa.x, sa.y, sa.z)
 * Radius specified, no SemiAxes given: body semiaxes are (r, r, r)
 * Both SemiAxes and Radius specified: body semiaxes are (r*sa.x, r*sa.y, r*sa.z)

The order of the semiaxes for stars mismatches the coordinate system used elsewhere in ssc files--the y and z axes are switched, matching Celestia's internal coordinate system. Rather than copying this for planets, it may be a better idea to just change how stars work.

Planet and satellite shapes from the IAU/IAG Working Group (WG) on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements
 * Presumably stars would then behave as if they always had a Radius definition, from the blackbody calculation? Ajtribick (talk)
 * Yes, that's what I was thinking: even if the radius is omitted in the stc file, a star always has an implicit radius based on the blackbody calculation. Does this seem sensible to you? --Claurel (talk) 01:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Implemented in revision 4077 --Claurel (talk) 07:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Coordinate display
I think that these should all be considered together, not as separate features:
 * Observer position coordinates
 * Apparent RA/Dec
 * New coordinate grids
 * Ecliptic
 * Geodetic coordinates (instead of geocentric latitude/longitude)
 * Galactic coordinates

One idea that came out of the RA/Dec discussion on the dev list is the need to show observer coordinates. I think that this is true whether or not they're needed to make sense of the position of the selection. At present, Celestia shows the observer's reference frame (followed object and target object, follow/sync orbit/chase/phase lock) and the speed within the reference frame. Showing velocity but not position seems like a serious omission! The observer position could be shown as either rectangular coordinates or spherical (longitude, latitude, altitude) relative to the center of the observer frame.

Change HUD text
There's some data on shown in the 3D view that really doesnt belong there: temperature, day length, rotation rate. These are either derived from potentially unreliable data, not interesting enough to merit using up space in the 3D view, or both. While I think that it is still worth showing this information, I believe that it should be displayed on an information panel in the GUI, where the data can be accompanied by some explanatory text.

I believe that we when deciding what information goes in the 3D view, we should prefer values that are observer-dependent, such as distance and apparent size. There's an easy to grasp logic in showing observer-dependent value in the observer's view. There's a small practical consequence: observer dependent values tend to change every single frame, so it's convenient to show them in the view that gets refreshed every frame anyhow. There are some observer independent values fundamental enough that they belong in the HUD:
 * Object type (star, galaxy, planet, etc.)
 * Spectral type and absolute magnitude for stars
 * Hubble type for galaxies
 * Radius for planets/moons/asteroids; triaxial dimensions when appropriate

Observer dependent values for all objects: For planets:
 * Distance
 * Apparent size (when non-negligible, > 0.1 arcsec)
 * Apparent coordinates
 * Phase angle

Values that should be removed from the HUD:
 * Solar system bodies: temperature, day length
 * Stars: luminosity, surface temperature, presence of planets, rotation rate

"Day length" as shown for planets is rather misleading. It actually shows the sidereal rotation rate, whereas 'day length' without any qualifiers is typically understood to mean the length of the solar day.

Phase angle is now displayed for solar system bodies. --Claurel (talk) 16:47, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Add Vincent's compass
A possible enhancement would be to add a mark that shows the direction of the currently selected object.

Deferred until after 1.6.0 --Claurel (talk) 01:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Show/hide for objects
Implemented, revision 4081 --Claurel (talk) 07:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Clickable/unclickable setting for objects
SourceForge feature tracker item 371302

(as requested by Martin and others)

Implemented in revision 4073 --Claurel (talk) 19:35, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

New solar system body classes

 * minormoon
 * surfacefeature
 * component
 * diffuse

Classifying small moons as minor will let us get rid of the clutter of small moon orbits around the giant planets except in those rare cases when someone actually wants to look at them.

feature and component give more options for classifying objects. In addition, objects of this class will never be rendered as star-like discs at a distance.

Possibly want a dwarfplanet class too.

The diffuse class would be used for objects like dust plumes and gas clouds.

Default properties for the various classes are as shown in the table below.

Planet Moon  Spacecraft  Component  Invisible  Diffuse Visible        yes     Yes    Yes         Yes        No         Yes VisibleAsPoint yes     Yes    Yes         No         No         No Clickable       yes     Yes    Yes         Yes        No         No(?) Planetshine    yes     Yes    No          No         No         No

Surfacefeature and component implemented in revision 4077 --Claurel (talk) 07:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

"Minormoon and diffuse implemented in revision 4273" --Claurel (talk) 19:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Lighting from secondary sources
For example, Earthshine, ring shine - what about spherical harmonics for approximating global illumination?

''Implemented, but not yet committed to SVN. Still need to properly consider phase when calculating amount of reflected light.'' --Claurel (talk) 17:24, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Planetshine implemented completely in revision 4237 --216.231.48.102 (talk) 18:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

More high-resolution textures

 * Earth
 * Mars
 * Galilean satellites
 * More Saturnian satellites

Possible official packages for these downloaded separately from the main package to save bandwidth?

Data file updates

 * Add Andrew's CHARM2 catalog of measured stellar radii
 * Add Selden's pulsar catalog

 * I haven't updated it in a while and have misplaced the program used to generate it :( Martin (Cham) did a more recent translation from the ATNF Web site. ... Selden (talk) 12:41, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

CHARM2 catalog committed by Andrew, SVN revision 4462 --Claurel (talk) 01:02, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Model updates

 * Add Itokawa model
 * Add improved Eros model
 * Add improved ISS model

Add depth sorting for markers
Allow some markers to be marked as 'always in foreground'

Implemented in revision 4119 --Claurel (talk) 00:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Make Modify work for star catalogs
Feature tracker request from ajtribick

Implemented in SVN revision 4416; Add and Replace dispositions added for consistency with ssc files. --Claurel (talk) 01:04, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Reference frame work
(mostly internal stuff):
 * Clean up frame code; rewrite old frames ("Follow", "Sync Orbit", etc.) in terms of 1.5.0 frames.
 * Expose 1.5.0 frames in celx scripting.
 * Improve reference frame performance through caching
 * Implement reference frame hierarchy for solar system objects; use this frame hierarchy in the renderer and solar system browser.
 * Implement velocity methods for orbits

''In progress. Main cleanup completed, velocity methods and caching improvements being tested.'' --Claurel (talk) 00:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

''Implemented. More velocity methods still needed for orbits. Decided to continue using the namespace hierarchy in solar system browser, because the frame hierarchy changes over times.'' --Claurel (talk) 01:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

''All items implemented, though velocity methods for some orbit times not yet finished. Decided that for the solar system browser, the namespace hierarchy is more appropriate than frame hierachy, since it doesn't change over time.'' --Claurel (talk) 01:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Implemented velocity methods for EllipticalOrbit, SampledTrajectory, and SPICE Orbit (as of revision 4280) --Claurel (talk) 19:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Switch to int64 based BigFix
(for performance) New class already coded, but needs extensive testing for compatibility with older version of Celestia. The new class includes a high precision multiplication operator, which will make it easier to code some frames stuff.

Implemented; currently validating and characterizing performance of new class --Claurel (talk) 07:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Completed --Claurel (talk)

Relative cel URLs
Store reference frame coordinates in cel URLs instead of absolute coordinates; will result in more future-proof URLs.

Implemented; patch being tested to verify compatibility with existing cel URLs --Claurel (talk) 20:47, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

''Code committed in revision 4318. Creating version 3 URLs currently just supported in Qt4 front-end'' --Claurel (talk) 20:07, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Toti's animated textures
Deferred until after 1.6.0. --Claurel (talk) 01:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Improved SPICE support

 * Handle orientation kernels
 * Automatically determine valid time windows
 * Better handling of relative paths

Added automatic time window determination and support for multiple kernels in a single SpiceOrbit (revision 4128). --Claurel (talk) 01:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

''Implemented rotation model based on SPICE frames, allowing use of spacecraft orientation kernels. (revision 4247).'' --Claurel (talk) 03:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Selectable markers
It would be convenient if marked objects could be clicked on and selected regardless of their apparent magnitude. Feature tracker request from ajtribick

Deferred until after 1.6.0. --Claurel (talk) 01:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Alternate star catalog support in celx scripts
Celx scripts should be able to query the HD and SAO catalog numbers for stars. Feature tracker request from ajtribick

SourceForge feature tracker item 1875572

Implemented in revision 4116 --Claurel (talk) 00:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Add a globular cluster catalog
Here's an interesting catalog of the Milky Way clusters, with locations (include distances), photometric parameters, metallicities, and more: http://physwww.physics.mcmaster.ca/%7Eharris/mwgc.dat

Globular clusters were discussed earlier and there was some disagreement about whether they should be galaxies, open clusters, or a new type of deep sky object. My opinion at this point is that we should add a new type of deep sky object. If we do this, we need to choose an appropriate set of parameters.

Implemented by Fridger, SVN revisions 4447-4449 --Claurel (talk) 00:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Object timelines
Timeline is a new SSC property that addresses a frequent problem with complex add-ons. A motivating example is the Cassini-Huygens mission. The Huygens probe was initially attached to the Cassini spacecraft. On December 25, 2004, it detached from Cassini for three weeks of free flight before entering Titan's atmosphere and then landing on its surface. It's most convenient to describe the complete mission using three reference frames: the body-fixed frame of Cassini, a Saturn-centered inertial frame for the free flight section, and finally the body-fixed frame of Titan. In Celestia 1.5.0, an object only has a single reference frame, so an SSC file for Huygens must used three different objects for the probe. With a Timeline, it is possible to specify different reference frames, trajectories, and rotation models for the different phases of the mission.

Here's an example of how the Huygens mission might look in an SSC file:

"Huygens" "Sol" {    Class "spacecraft" Mesh "huygens.3ds" Radius 0.00135 Timeline [        # Attached to Cassini {             Beginning "1997 10 15 09:27" OrbitFrame { BodyFixed { Center "Sol/Cassini" } } FixedPosition [ ... ]             BodyFrame { BodyFixed { Center "Sol/Cassini" } } FixedRotation { ... }         }          # Free flight {              Beginning "2004 12 25 02:01" OrbitFrame { EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol/Saturn/Titan" } } SampledTrajectory { ... }              BodyFrame { EclipticJ2000 { } } SampledOrientation { ... }          }           # Landed on Titan {               Beginning "2005 1 14 09:00" OrbitFrame { BodyFixed { Center "Sol/Saturn/Titan" } } FixedPosition [ ... ]               BodyFrame { BodyFixed { Center "Sol/Saturn/Titan" } } FixedRotation { ... }          }      ] }

''Implemented and committed. Need to complete documentation.'' --Claurel (talk) 01:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

CustomRotation
Rotation of some solar system bodies is not adequately described by constant rotation about a fixed axis. We need custom rotation models for such bodies, with C++ functions to calculate orientation. They should be available through a CustomRotation SSC property, analagous to the way CustomOrbit works.

We should have CustomRotations for:

 * Earth (precession and nutation)
 * the Moon
 * Major Saturnian satellites (especially Mimas)
 * Galilean satellites
 * Triton
 * IAU models for the planets

The secular terms for pole positions should be clamped to avoid having the planets 'roll over' at times in the distant past or future.

Implemented IAU models for planets, Moon, Martian, Jovian, and major Saturnian satellites. --Claurel (talk) 01:36, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Implemented precession for Earth: P03 model, and long period extension of P03 --Claurel (talk) 01:24, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Implemented IAU rotation models for major Uranian satellites. --Claurel (talk) 22:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Remove stellar distance limit
Celestia 1.5.0 didn't handle stars more than 16,000 light years from the Sun. This limitation was addressed in revision 4198, with the maximum distance increased to 10 million light years.

Implemented in revision 4198 --Claurel (talk) 01:35, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Support InfoURLs for stars
In 1.5.0, solar system bodies and deep sky objects could have InfoURLs, but stars always used the default SIMBAD URL. It would be useful to have InfoURLs available for stars as well. Like other extended star attributes, InfoURLs would only be available for stars defined in stc files.

Implemented in revision 4185 --Claurel (talk) 01:35, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Orbit display for reference points
An often-reported issue in 1.5.0 was that Pluto's orbit was no longer visible. This is because the orbit of Pluto was redefined relative to the Pluto−Charon barycenter, and the heliocentric orbit of the barycenter wasn't shown. 1.6.0 will be changed to render the orbit of a reference point if one of the objects orbiting that reference point is either a planet, moon, asteroid, or spacecraft.

Implemented in revision 4237 --Claurel (talk) 03:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

SampledTrajectory files with velocities
Adding velocity vectors to SampledTrajectory records can make the trajectory much more accurate for a given memory footprint (i.e. less samples required for the same accuracy.) HORIZONS can generate ephemerides with velocities, so there is a ready source of xyz+velocity trajectory data. Files with position and velocity will have the extension xyzv; such files can replace the xyz file in a SampledOrbit or SampledTrajectory without any other modification to an ssc or stc file.

Implemented in revision 4236 --216.231.48.102 (talk) 18:17, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Update Cassini trajectory
The current trajectory for Cassini only covers the nominal mission, which ends in June 2008. Now that the trajectory for the extended mission is available we should include it in Celestia. Also, the new Timeline feature can be used to define Huygens as a single object instead of as separate objects for the attached-to-Cassini and free flight mission segments.

New Cassini mission added in SVN revision 4420. --Claurel (talk) 01:08, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Improved coordinate grids
Add new grid types in addition to the existing equatorial grid: horizontal (alt-azimuth), ecliptic, and galactic. The grid lines drawn should change as the user zooms in, maintaining a roughly line density. Subdivision of grid arcs should be adaptive so that they always appear smooth. In order to make the labels useful, they must always be shown at points within the field of view, not in fixed locations as is the case in the current implementation.

Implemented in SVN revision 4352 --Claurel (talk) 02:29, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Double stars

 * 1) Celestia 1.5.0 still does not calculate temperature if planet orbits a double star (like Tatooine in Star Wars).
 * 2) If both stars have planets, only planets of one star are listed in Solar System Browser. And always the same one, not the nearest one!

''The solar system browser problem is already fixed in the Qt version of Celestia. The temperature calculation will be addressed after 1.6.0. In my opinion, the temperature is not important enough that it should be displayed as part of the overlay text. It should instead be shown in a separate information window (possibly with some explanation of exactly what the equilibrium temperature is--people are understandably confused when they notice that Venus is cooler than Earth.'' --Claurel (talk) 16:52, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Update stars.dat
Switch to a more rigorous and better documented method of building stars.dat from the HIPPARCOS data set. Use the new reduction as a starting point.

''New stars.dat produced by Andrew from the latest version of the HIPPARCOS catalog. SVN revision 4462'' --Claurel (talk) 01:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Multiple names for solar system bodies
Make it possible to assign multiple names to solar system bodies using the same colon separated name lists as for stars and deep sky objects.

Ongoing projects

 * Qt4 interface
 * Atmosphere rendering
 * HDR
 * High-resolution tile rendering
 * Package system for add-ons

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Thanks
I really appreciate your contributions to the Outdoor Industries honors. It's an area where I have a lot of interest, but little experience. BTW, I hope you like how I changed the poisonous-to-goats section.

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Copyright
Hi there,

I had to rollback your answers to requirement 2 of the Goat Husbandry honor, as I'm pretty sure it was in violation of copyright. See http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/goathouse.htm

If you wish to rephrase that material in your own words, we can use it, or you can seek permission from the copyright holder to publish it under the GFDL. --Jomegat (talk) 03:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

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Prealgebra for Two-Year Colleges renaming
Sorry about the misnamed files. I cannot yet delet files. Will you please delete/move them for me?

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Your signature should be put into the signature field of my preferences. That should work better, as ~ will work nicely then. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 04:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC) Yes, I know that, but I'm an interesting fellow and what I have in my signature field in my prefs is. That way when I type ~, my signature is different every time I sign. See: --penubag  (talk; w) --[[user:penubag|penubag ]] (talk; w) --[[user:penubag|penubag ]]''' ([[w:user talk:penubag|talk]]; [[w:user:penubag|w]]) 01:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
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Introduction to Mathematics
Impossible to learn all the math necessary for college in a year? On the contrary, it's been done.

I wish I remembered more details, but the story goes something like this. The new administrator for the New York State school system, about 1900, introduced a new mathematics curriculum. In the first three grades, there was no mathematics at all, excpet learning the numbers from one to one hundred. Then in fourth grade teachers began to teach mathematics by introducing a small number of rules (essentially the commutative, associative, and distributive laws, though I don't believe he called them by those names). After that, his curriculum went on to what today look like fairly advanced problems in business mathematics.

The experiment was a total success. Immigrant children, who most educators at the time thought were incapable of learning, mastered basic mathematics in record time.

Needless to say, as soon as this administrator retired, the new administrator dismantled the successful system and installed the unsuccessful system that is almost universal today.

There are plenty of other examples in the history of education. Harvard freshman in the eighteenth century generally didn't know any arithmetic at all (beyond counting), and were taught it all in a Freshman course.

People overestimate the quantity of content in elementary mathematics because of the way it is taught, at least in the United States, by boring repetition without understanding, a mile wide and an inch deep.

I teach college math, and my calculus students often need to be taught basic arithmetic before we go on to calculus. It usually takes about ten minutes out of four or five lectures. If they had been taught the right way in grade school (and, of course, given practice every year) this wouldn't be necessary. But it is surprising how little you need to know to do calculus -- the multiplication and addition tables, adding and subtracting fractions, a little bit of factoring, minus times minus is plus, and a few other elementary facts.

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About my User Name
Hi Mike,

Thanks for your comments about my username. (Hyundai). Can you please rename me from the present name to the username Armchair, first letter capitalized; the rest not.

If it is possible to retain credit for my edits, then so much the better.

By the way, have you ever found a way to put a hit counter onto a page. Specifically, I would like to know whether or not pages worked on are popular. I do not mean to count users at their editing, but to count surfers as they pass through.

Thanks,

--Hyundai (talk) 13:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't rename you, but I will ask a bureaucrat to do so. You will retain all your edits.
 * I don't think there is any way to get such statistics currently, although many attempts have been made in the past to figure out how to do it. Part of the problem is that we are constrained on both the technical side, and the policy side. I'll ask around though. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 14:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Nomination
I'm a little disappointed in your withdrawl, I won't deny that. I disagree with Withinfocus (and I mentioned this point in the nomination itself) that we have "enough" bcrats right now. I don't believe that we have a quota, or that there is ever a point where we have "too many". I also don't think that good candidates should be turned away because we have good people doing the job already. Maybe being a bcrat is nothing more then the tools, the ability to rename users or to promote admins, but maybe there's something more too it. None of the bureaucrats that we currently have are "full-time" members here. Withinfocus and I have both been busy in real life. Derbeth and Johnny, while both still technically "Active" here have their focus in other projects. We're all available in a pinch, but I would like to try and avoid the "pinch" if possible. I want to nominate and promote candidates for admin and bcrat based purely on the merits of the candidate, not on the numbers and availability of existing admins/bcrats. Maybe I'm in the minority here in that viewpoint.

Anyway, I won't harp on the subject anymore then that. Feel free to email me if you want more information about my position on this. I also won't push the subject any further then to say that I don't think you should have withdrawn the nomination. It's not for me to decide, of course, so I won't say anything else about it.

I'll be back in town on thursday, so I should see you online thursday, friday, or sometime next week. Talk to you then. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 18:45, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Outdoor education
Thanks Mike, I've started expanding Outdoor education. Appreciate any pointers, it's my first time around here. Sincerely, Jtneill (talk) 15:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Mike, Could you help me out with creating a table of contents for this book, with the stages of development indicated? I probably just need a template to get me going. I had a quick read of Template messages/Maintenance and it looked promising. I removed the tag, but feel like something else should take its place. I like the idea of a table of contents which indicates the stages of completion. Appreciate any help. Jtneill (talk) 15:32, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I tweaked a few things. It looks like you've got a good start there. I also added to categorize the book. That's fine for now, but you might want to add one or two more later. All in all, it looks promising. I'll be watching, but if you need help with anything else, come on back!  – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 16:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

NP, as ever
I was actually just about to set it to indefinite... IP has a very long history of vandalism on multiple projects, and there are no associated users (I checked). -- SB_Johnny | PA! 17:26, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I was just about to take a look myself. I don't like doing indef IP blocks, but perhaps long-term would be ok -- five years? – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 17:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Admin offer
Mike, I thank you for the vote of support... but if it is offered, I would have to turn it down. I've posted my reasons on SB_Johnny's talk page.

If RB is limited to 20/min, then I likely did hit that limit; once I got into the flow of it, I did about ten in twenty seconds before the throttle hit. It is quick: contributions page, hit Rollback, hit the IP address, find the next Rollback... with a gaming mouse (which I didn't have), I could probably do about one a second. Chazz (talk) 18:51, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I wanted to have rollback be unlimited. I'll see what the devs say. As for an RFA, no pressure, but you're around enough that you know what's what. See you 'round. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 18:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Transwikis to Wikt:
I think I'm done now. --Connel MacKenzie (talk) 20:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks; [[Image:Symbol delete vote.svg|15px]] deleted – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 20:24, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Syntax error
Mike, do you know who to talk to about an apparent code change breaking Recent Changes Linked? The error I'm getting is:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "wfSpecialRecentchangeslinked". MySQL returned error "1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '<<<<<<< .mine rc_new_len ======= rc_new_len, rc_log_ty (10.0.0.101)".

Chazz (talk) 00:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I have notified the developers. Thanks for the bug report! – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 01:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like it's working again. Thank you. Chazz (talk) 03:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Few requests
Hi

So there are few things that aren't used anymore. All of them are actually added Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. Only images. Also can Image:75%.png be reverted to the latest version by Karl Wick? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Soeb (talk • contribs) 13:22, March 20, 2008.

 * Yup, I saw those, but had to run. I need a deletion reason please. You can provide one, or by adding it to the images you want deleted like . And I think you can revert images yourself, but perhaps not a good idea without checking, especially with images so widely used as Image:75%.png, so I'll take a look shortly. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 20:37, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Would you please link to the new version of each image? Thanks. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 21:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

OK. So here are they. First link is old, second is new: Why? Because older ones were blocked, and I wanted to update screen from new version or smaller. Also because older ones was in jpg. I can't revert 75%.png because it's blocked too. In svg it's yellow in png violet but it should be yellow too. Soeb (talk) 10:04, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Image:Blender3D_materials_and_textures_panel_button.jpg - Image:Blender3D_materials_and_textures_panel_button.png
 * Image:Blender3D_materials_panel_button.jpg - Image:Blender3D_materials_panel_button.png
 * Image:Format_tab.PNG - Image:Format_tab.png
 * Image:File_locator_icon.PNG - Image:File_locator_icon.png
 * Image:Lastbuttonrow.jpg - Image:Lastbuttonrow.png
 * Image:OSA_comparison.jpg - Image:OSA_comparison.png
 * Image:Mat-screen.jpg - Image:Mat-screen.png
 * Image:Mat-tex-slots.png - Image:Mat-tex-slots.pNg
 * Image:Render_Settings.PNG - Image:Render_Settings.png
 * Image:Render_settings_backbuf_row.PNG - Image:Render_settings_backbuf_row.png
 * Image:Render_tab.PNG - Image:Render_tab.png
 * Thanks. I reverted 75.png yesterday, so that should be fine. For these images, I just wanted to specify which image to use if people are looking at a page saying it was deleted. Consider it done. Webaware did it already. Thanks! – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 15:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Screenshots
G'day, thanks that is better language. English is my primary language, but not my forté :) Webaware talk 00:22, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Glad you like it. Precision/legalese is a strong suit as my parents are lawyers :P – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 00:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikiworld
Hi mike, yes go ahead and delete (I have the text). Someone else had suggested I do this (put it on wikibooks) and I thought the license dodgy, but figured I'd try converting and see how it went (not good from pdf to OO Writer to MW syntax). That's good to know that an intact book belongs on WikiSource. Appreciate it. And thanks for you help all round. Jtneill (talk) 01:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

US History/Contents/Chief Justices
I'm beginning to change my mind about this. It didn't have any real content, but what is the harm in having a timeline of the SC justices? Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk | email | contribs ) 04:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, it wasn't complete, but feel free to restore if you like. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 04:24, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed W Bush a bit, see if you think this is suitable enough to remove the cleanup tag. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk | email | contribs ) 20:30, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that looks a lot better. I'd like to leave up a notice for future contributors though as a reminder that Wikibooks is not Wikinews. I'll figure something out. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 20:33, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool, I've removed its nomination for removal from featured status now. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk | email | contribs ) 20:44, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Imgage on "Signs for Selecting..
Mike, I just wrote you a long message which appears to have gotten lost, so I will try to make this short and hope it gets through. The images I uploaded are are original and permission has be given by the photographer to post. I gave credit to each phot as far as I know. You may contact the photograher if you wish at SmithD40@michigan.gov. I did read the material and did what I thought was right. Will be out of town until March 26. Rod Rod (talk) 18:51, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Emailed both – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 00:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:Javascript
Sounds like an interesting idea. I assume you want to have a "vfd" tab at the top of the page, so that you can click it directly without having to go to some kind of separate form page? The problem is that when you open a separate tab to create an edit form, you can't really use javascript from the first tab to edit what goes in the boxes on the second tab.

Instead of creating a second tab, what if we created an edit window at the bottom of the page or something. If we keep it on the first tab, we can use javascript to modify the crap out of it. Plus, I already have a lot of library functions that we can hijack to do this exact thing quickly. Here is what I envision:

 * 1) Click "Vfd" tab at the top of the page.
 * 2) This opens an edit window somewhere on the current page (either at the top, at the bottom, or as an overlay)
 * 3) The javascript inserts stuff into the fields automatically, and you can preview/modify it and click "save".
 * 4) Once you click "save", (or maybe a separate "close" button), the edit window disappears from view.

I could get started on this later today or into this evening, if it's the kind of thing you are interested in. The benefit to keeping everything on one page is that the scripting becomes very easy (especially if we use some of the libraries I already have written), and we can do a lot of expansion/customization easily. Let me know. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Almost. It's a hack of Twinkle, so you get a "speedy" tab at the top, and then there's a bunch of options, one of which is VFD (which currently just adds the template). The other thing is that since it's a hack of Twinkle, you have morebits.js to work with. I can barely make heads or tails of it, but I'm sure there is a function in there somewhere that can be hijacked to perform this function. OTOH, if you can make it work some other way that's fine. There's a function to notify the user, which I tried to use. I basically tried to trick it into notifying WB:VFD as if it were another user, but I messed something up. I think that'd be fine, but I don't understand enough of what's going on to make it work... but I bet you would :) – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 15:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I forget if I told you already. The script is MediaWiki:Gadget-twinklespeedy.js and uses MediaWiki:Gadget-morebits.js. I have a development version at User:Mike.lifeguard/TSdev.js where you can experiment. The manual is at User:Mike.lifeguard/Twinkle Speedy documentation. The MediaWiki version is good enough that I'd be comfortable adding it to Gadgets after a day or two of testing from more than just me... interested? – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 15:25, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Okay, let me take a look through all this nonsense, and I'll let you know what I come up with. If you are interested in heavy modifications to Twinkle, maybe you should contact the Twinkle developers on Wikipedia and see if they can do the work for you. If we start modifiying Twinkle for our own needs, and then Twinkle gets major upgrades later, we won't be able to merge our changes and the new upgrades together. That may not be a big issue for you. If we don't modify Twinkle, and instead just hijack some of the necessary functions from morebits.js, that shouldn't cause a problem. However, i need to read through morebits.js and figure out what functions are available to hijack. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:41, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Why not simply have the script notify the author(s), and open up the VFD page with a new section, the title filled in with a link to the book/page being nominated for deletion and waiting for you to fill in the rest? --dark lama  16:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

 * That'd by just fine, but I can't do that, apparently :( Can you? – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 12:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikijunior:Famous Inventors
Thank you Mike for heads up on the wikibook I started. I didn't realize how wikibooks and wikijunior were related. I thought I had created a wikijunior book. I'm trying to set up a wikibook for a class project with my third graders. After reading through the help pages for a couple hours I have a better picture of how to organize our Wikijunior books. I'm trying to do a lot of the organization for our book ahead of time. If this goes well, we'll probably next year add more to it and an start another one on habitats.

Would you please move the Famous Inventors wikibook to Wikijunior:Famous Inventors?

Thanks, --Jsigler (talk) 22:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 22:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Mike
Thanks for the welcome. No questions at the moment :) Jtico (talk) 23:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

AQA Business Studies
Info - contributor to the above (you placed a qr-em) was prevented from contributing for a while because of a hard block I'd placed on an IP. I had mail & sorted it - my bad. Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 12:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 14:36, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like this one is coming along well :) – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 14:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion
Hi, you had left a notice on my talk page regarding Votes for deletion/Common phrases in various languages but it really would have been nice to have been notified somewhere I would have had a better chance to have seen it. I know that's not required, but I only come to Wikibooks periodically. I do however have some things I'd like to work on and I strongly feel that Common phrases in various languages is something that is perfectly suited to be published in a book. In fact I can't even see why people wouldn't. I guess it's moot as long as it was able to be imported to Wiktionary and used somewhere. Actually it should be imported directly from Wikipedia, that is where the content actually originated. Anyway keep up the good work that you do here, I'm just a little frustrated since I don't like to see that much content lost. - Taxman (talk) 04:38, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, the content was not lost. Wherever we had a language text, I merged that section as an appendix to the text, as should have been done from the beginning (since our inclusion policy states that we are not Wiktionary, and such things are acceptable as a secondary and auxiliary resource). Everything was copied to Wiktionary as well, which is a project specifically for resources like this. So there was no content lost, and the stuff we kept is where it should be. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 14:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy?
Hi, can you also delete Category:Medieval Total War Guide? Thanks. -- Prod (talk) 13:55, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ahh, yes; [[Image:Symbol delete vote.svg|15px]] deleted. – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 14:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Ttv. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ttv~enwikibooks that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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Wikibooks:Bots/Unstable

Bots are automated clients used to make repetitive edits to the wiki faster than a human would be able to perform.

The bot flag is a tool that enables default hiding of edit actions, intended to avoid flooding of the logs.

The flood flag is a tool to replace temporary utilization of the bot flags.

Neither bots nor the flood flag may ever be used to make controversial actions. This policy pertains to all bots, including those which do not have the bot flag.

Bots
Bots should be given their own separate account, and should not share an account with a human operator. This is so that, in an emergency, the bot can be blocked without having to block the bot operator. Bots should be easily identifiable as a bot, by doing at least one of the following:

 * Having the word "Bot", or something similar, in the username.
 * Adding something such as "Automated" or "Bot edit" to every edit summary. (Bots must always make proper use of the edit summary)
 * Adding information on the bot account's user page which clearly indicated that the account is a bot account, who the owner is, and how to stop the bot from editing (such as a "block" link to be used directly by admins).

The capabilities of a bot, or a reasonably complete list of them, should be easily available on the bot's userpage.

Bot operators are expected to be responsive to queries regarding their bots, especially where error reports are concerned. All edits made by the bot are the responsibility of the bot operator, and they will be expected to undo any damage caused by a malfunctioning or misdirected bot.

Common problems

 * See also: Edit assertions for bots

Bots must never contribute anonymously, and care should be taken to ensure that the bot does not accidentally log out during operation. If this occurs, the bot must cease editing. Bots contributing anonymously will be blocked on sight.

It is very important for fully-automated bots to, wherever possible, enable a method to stop the bot. Be it by leaving a message on the bot's talk page, or editing a subpage in the bot's userspace, since their owner may not be on hand to deal with problems. If that fails, a block will be required to limit disruption to the wiki. Once the problem is fixed, the bot will be unblocked to resume operations.

Semi-automated bots
Semi-automated bots are operated by a human interactively. As AutoWikiBroswer, a common tool which is often operated in a semi-automated fashion. These bots should be flagged only if they demonstrated any ability to flush non-automated edits out of the logs.

Semi-automated scripts, like user scripts, which do not flood the list of recent changes do not need to be flagged. User scripts which flood RC should be used with care to limit disruption; the flood flag may be temporarily granted to cover these specific situations.

Fully-automated bots
Fully-automated bots operate without supervision. Automated bots usually operate continuously, and should be approved before they go into operation. Make a request at WB:RFP to ensure that the planned task is acceptable to the community. Bots will be flagged based on their ability to flush non-bot edits from the recent changes feed. Automated bots which edit intermittently and do not flood the list of recent changes do not need to be flagged.

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Wikibooks administrators may temporarily give themselves a "flood flag" when doing repetitive, non-controversial edits or actions to avoid flooding RC. Administrators, as users with an additional set of maintenance tools, may often need to make repetitive edits. Bureaucrats may additionally add and remove the flag from other users.

When to use the flood flag
Administrators should use the flood flag to avoid flushing other edits and actions from the RC feed when doing similar, repetitive changes. Such actions must never be controversial, as using the flood flag decreases the amount of oversight they may receive. Abuse of the flood flag is treated as abuse of any other administrator tool would be.

Examples of acceptable use would be deleting many spambot pages, or deleting a large number of pages after consensus has been achieved at Votes for deletion or blocking many open proxies. Unacceptable uses include attempting to circumvent legitimate oversight of any controversial action, regardless of whether it is an administrator task or not. Bureaucrats may wish to use the flag when renaming indefinitely blocked accounts with inappropriate usernames.

In some cases, a bureaucrat may remove the flood flag to force an administrator's edits to appear in RC. This should be done in cases where the administrator has forgotten to remove it, or when the changes should be seen by default in RC.

The flood flag is set and removed using Special:UserRights.

Abuse
Administrator should not make contentious edits or actions with the flood flag on. Since they already have access to a greater toolset to delete pages, block users, view deleted material, place protections on pages, etc. The necessity to log actions is greater.

Granting of the flood flag is logged, and shown in recent changes. Admins who abuse their admin rights (including the flood flag) should be sanctioned.

Flood flag or bot flag?
The Flood Flag is intended to replace requesting temporary bot flags from bureaucrats. Administrators who would otherwise request a temp bot flag may simply flag themselves using the flood group.

In those cases where a permanent bot flag should be given, procedure remains the same - the administrator should create a secondary account and request a bot flag as normal. Only temporary bot flags are replaced with this flood flag.

Getting a bot flag
The bot flag is simply a technical measure, no big deal. Bots which are capable of flushing non-bot edits out of the recent changes feed should be flagged, even if they do so only intermittently.

 * Bot operators who anticipate that their bot will flush non-bot edits from the recent changes feed must request a bot flag, and throttle the bot to avoid doing harm until the bot is flagged. Bots must not flood Special:RecentChanges while waiting for approval for a bot flag; edit at a low rate until the flag is applied.

 * A request from the bot operator will be made on WB:RFP.
 * In cases where the work of a patroller, rollbacker, admin or 'crat is hindered by a bot awaiting approval, they may request that the bot be flagged immediately.
 * Only bureaucrats are able to grant or revoke the bot flag to a user account, and may do so at their discretion. Bureaucrats should seek community input when the bot's edits will have a major impact on the project, but bots performing minor tasks which are obviously of net benefit may be flagged immediately.
 * If no significant opposition is voiced, and the bots performs a useful, non-controversial task with minimal errors, the bot will be flagged forthwith.

Unwanted bots
Bots which perform unwanted tasks on Wikibooks will not be flagged (or, if the bot flag was already granted, will be de-flagged). Operators who do not heed the wishes of the community in this respect will have their bot(s) blocked.

Current bots
These accounts are listed as bots. Some do not have the bot flag; flagged bots are listed here. Some bots operate on many wikis, however their edits are not flagged as bot edits on this Wikibooks.

Bots available by request
These bots are active and available to perform edits upon request. Bots functions are described on their userpages.
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Talk:Relationships/How Men Select Women

This page might as well be deleted, it's completely biased.

I'm wondering if anyone has an explanation for this. I know a girl who has a bigger chin, close set eyes, and not the smallest nose, but somehow she's moderately feminine looking (somehow!) and guys always say she's so hot and so cute and sexy and pretty. A lot of guys hit on her and even more obviously look her up and down and smile and gawk. There were these guys calling her a goddess and all kinds of guys are always smiling and flirting with her. All ethnic backrounds and ages- young, old, etc. ALSO, somehow she looks a lot younger than her age too. She's 30 and she looks 16-22. Are there exceptions?... You see, her chin is big, but not in an angular way. It's longer and wider, but round. Her cheeks are round and full too. Her eyes are close, but not extremely close and they are a nice shape and size with long eyelashes. They stand out nicely on her face. Her nose is a little long and bigger. Her hair and skin are kind of nice (glowing), and the rest of her features are nice and her body is cute and curvy. But so many guys (and girls too) say she's so pretty all the time. Usually, the formula for beauty and youth is a short, narrow chin, larger, farther (but not too far) eyes, and a smaller nose. I'm confused. Somehow she's kind of baby faced anyway. I know it's so hard to believe! I'm confused too. So I asked a guy friend of mine, who, just like so many, said she's such a beauty, and I ask about the chin and stuff. He said her chin is so feminine and her eyes aren't close and her nose is fine, BUT TRUST ME!!! Her chin is so much bigger than most "hot girls" and her eyes are closer than average and her nose is bigger. I don't know what celebrity to compare her to. Some people said she looks like Penelope Cruz but not really. Other people said no. I don't think so. Okay, imagine this. Take your young Britney like when she was 18 and a great picture of her. But make her eyes closer, chin, jaw, and cheeks (inner and outter, upper and lower)bigger, and nose bigger. Anyway, please help clear this for me. I'm confused as to how she gets more guys than any girl I know. Sincerely Baffled

Something about the measurements of her face might be a little similiar to Meryl Streeps, but she's a lot prettier than her and younger and she looks nothing like her.

Men prefer youth, but most don't prefer exaggereated neoteny.
Men prefer youth, but most don't prefer exaggereated neoteny. There's a lot of stuff on the internet claiming this false information. Most guys prefer a hot girl who looks like a girl or a woman over a very baby-faced girl. The pedifiles prefer teh very baby faced ones. Neoteny is cute but so not hot, certainly not to your typical man who likes women and girls. This is obviouse general knowledge that people with common sense have always known.

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Stories written for children have to give a simple "Just Say No to drugs" message, firm and unambiguous. With adolescent fiction, you are free to deal with the topic of drugs in a non-judgmental, more nuanced manner. You can write a story all about cocaine, or a character's marijuana use can be a casual aside in the plot. Maybe you can write about a character's heroin addiction as one of the many complications in his life. You can write about drugs bringing someone up, and then bringing him down, or write about a character's struggle to break free of addiction, or write about someone being raised with a very strict drugs-are-bad message and then learning drugs are not all she was taught, or write about someone being raised by hippies then being surprised when harder drugs make her life miserable, or write about a teen wondering if drugs are all there are to life.

If you are writing a story about a teen addict who seeks treatment, there are plenty of options there, as well. You can write about your character going to a therapeutic boarding school, or a therapeutic wilderness camp, or an AA-type group. Your character could also enter outpatient treatment. If the drug being abused is alcohol, consider disulfiram (a medication that causes one to become violently ill from even a sip of alcohol) as part of the treatment.

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Undo/Redo Redo Undo
These are the traditional undo, redo the last action editing tools.

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� WINGS3D USER MANUAL Section 5.1 The Menus 5.1.2 The Edit Menu Figure 35: The Edit Menu. Edit Menu – General

The Edit Menu allows for operations which can directly affect your model such as Undo,

Redo, Repeat, and Repeat Drag. It is also where the user can set up their operational preferences so that Wings looks and behaves they way they prefer it to work.

EDIT | UNDO/REDO (Ctrl-Z) Reverses last action. The last Undo is redone, the last Redo is undone.

EDIT | REDO (Ctrl-Shift-Z) Redo undone steps, up to 32 steps.

EDIT | UNDO (Alt-Ctrl-Z) Undo up to the last 32 steps.

EDIT | REPEAT (D) Repeats the last command. Note that the menu will read (Cant repeat "some command") D if the selection mode has been changed and the command doesn't exist in the current selection mode. Also, if the selection has been cleared, no command can be repeated. There are limits on what can be repeated. Interactive commands, commands

where you drag, such as Extrude, will only be repeated up to when the dragging phase starts. You will have to do the dragging again, even if you want to drag exactly the same distance.

EDIT | REPEAT DRAG (Shift-D) Repeat Drag repeats both the command and the interactive actions taken with the command. In other words, the mouse drag portion of an extrude, for example, is also repeated. So if your did an Extrude on a face for 3 units selecting the Repeat Drag option (Shift-D) would not only start the Extrude command, but would also do the extrude the same distance.

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� Section 5.1 The Menus WINGS3D USER MANUAL Figure 36: The Material Editor.

EDIT | MATERIAL

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Hole

Brings up the Material Editor. This both shows the current material settings for the included colors and allows you to set their properties. You can set the color for the default object and hole colors and any materials you have created via the Face | Set Material command. Editable properties include: Diffuse, Ambient, Specular, Emission, Shininess, and Opacity. Diffuse, ambient, specular, and emissive colors are set via pop-up color mixers while shininess and opacity are set via sliders. The resultant overall material is shown on the ball to the left. Here is a screen shot of the Material Editor.

Note that new materials are not created here. Use the FACE CONTEXT SENSITIVE MENU | SET MATERIAL | NEW to create a new material. Any new materials can then be edited via this EDIT | MATERIAL menu.

EDIT |CAMERA MODE

Wings provides users with the ability to set their own camera options so that you can work the way you like, rather than having to work in some predetermined manner. There are five camera options to choose from; Mirai®, Nendo®, Maya®, 3ds max®, and Blender. Additionally, there are options for setting up the scroll wheel for quick zooming with a user selected zoom factor. You can also set the field of view and the depth of the near and far clipping planes.

This allows you to set Wings up to work the way you are used to working if you have used any of the other 3D modeling packages listed. Each camera mode is briefly outlined below. Note that lmb means left mouse button, mmb means middle mouse button, and rmb means right mouse button. To make the settings take effect, click the OK button. To return to Wings without making any changes click on the Cancel button. A brief summary of the camera mode operations follows.

Figure 37: Camera modes. The Camera Mode sub menu has options to set the camera up to your liking. It also has settings to use the scroll wheel for zooming, the field of view, and the depth of the near and far clipping planes. 50 DRAFT 1.6

� WINGS3D USER MANUAL Section 5.1 The Menus Mirai® mode:

mmb click and release = rotate mode mmb scroll wheel = zoom arrow keys = translate view rmb = return the original view, prior to tumbling. Q = toggle rotate/translate while in rotate mode.

Nendo® mode:

mmb click = rotate mode while in rotate mode, (mmb or rmb) drag to zoom lmb to exit rotate mode arrow keys = translate view In Nendo® mode you may use Ctrlrmb click to enter rotate mode if you don't have a middle mouse button.

Maya® mode:

alt + lmb = rotate view alt + mmb = translate view alt + lmb + mmb = zoom view

3ds Max® mode:

mmb = rotate view ctrl + mmb = translate view alt + ctrl + mmb = zoom view

Blender mode:

mmb = rotate view Shift + mmb = translate view Ctrl + mmb = zoom view If you don't have a middle mouse button, use Alt + lmb instead.

Note that both the Max and Maya modes require a three-button mouse.

Perhaps a quick word on clipping planes is in order here. The near and far clipping planes are simply the area in your workspace between which objects or parts of objects remain visible. So with a near clipping plane setting of 0.25 any portion of the object that is closer to the camera than 0.25 Wings units will vanish. With a setting of 1000 for the far clipping plane any portion of an object greater than 1000 units from the camera will likewise become invisible. The most practical implication here is if you want to zoom in very close for detail work you may find the area of interest suddenly disappears. To solve this either zoom out slightly or reduce the near clipping plane setting to something smaller, like 0.01 units.

EDIT | PREFERENCES

Wings allows the user to set numerous user interface preferences. This is accomplished via a preference dialog sheet which is accessed by selecting Preferences from the Edit Menu. When the dialog sheet comes up, set each preference as desired, then click OK to apply them and dismiss the sheet. If you change your mind or don't want to set any preferences click the Cancel button to dismiss the dialog sheet without applying them. Above is a picture of the dialog sheet

as it is set in my working version of Wings. Note that by clicking on any of the color boxes a sub menu will pop up that allows you to set the colors interactively via RGB slider bars or by typing in individual vales for red, green, and blue. These settings are likewise set or abandoned via clicking on the OK or Cancel buttons respectively. Vertex Display – sets the size of the vertices on the screen in pixels. It is sometimes handy to increase vertex sizes to even as much as 12 – 16 pixels, for doing screen grabs, to help clarify a point on a discussion forum or in a tutorial. Edge Display – sets the size (thickness) of the edges on the screen in pixels. Colors – sets the Background, Text (workspace text), Selection, Edges, Hard Edges, and Wire Edges colors. By clicking on one of the boxes the color dialog box will come up allowing you to enter RGB values from 0-255. Enter each number then hit Return to accept the changes. You can drag and drop color patches from one box to another. Grid – the two options are Color, which works exactly as the Color options described above, and the Force Axis-Aligned Grid check box, which acts as a toggle. If turned on whenever you jump to a primary axis view (by hitting the X, Y, Z, Shift-X, Shift-Y, Shift-Z keys) the Grid will automatically turn on.

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� Section 5.1 The Menus WINGS3D USER MANUAL When you move out of such a view the grid will automatically turn back off. Highlighting – Vertex, Edge, Face, and Object highlighting are also On/Off toggles. If turned on then the item of that type will auto highlight when the mouse passes over them. This makes selecting the correct vertex, edge, etc. much easier as it gives a visual confirmation of just what is being pointed at. If the item the mouse is over is unselected it will highlight in the unselected color whereas if it is selected the item will highlight in the Selected color. These colors are set just like the Color options as described above. The Smart Highlighting check box allows Wings to automatically switch from the various selection modes (vertex, edge, and face) similar to how it works in Nendo®. This can speed up modeling quite a bit. Vector Display – Vector Display Length and Width set just that, the length and width of the line used to represent the active Vector in the advanced menus operations. Vector Display Color sets the color of the Vector

Figure 38: The Preferences Menu.

used in the advanced menus operations. Colors are assigned just as described in the Color preferences section above. Auto Rotate – Auto Rotate Angel is entered as a real number in degrees of rotation. The Auto Rotate Delay is entered as an whole number, representing milliseconds between steps of rotation. The Auto Rotate function itself is accessed (and will be discussed) in the View menu structure. Axes – Show Axis Letters check box is an On/Off toggle. If turned on small X, Y, and Z letters will float at the + ends of the three axes, to help keep you oriented. The +X,Y,Z and -X, Y, Z Color boxes allows you to set the color for each axis which also helps keep you oriented while modeling. These are set by the color preferences boxes for each, just like in the Color options described above.

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� WINGS3D USER MANUAL Section 5.1 The Menus Miscellaneous – There are several miscellaneous preferences as described below.

Auto-save interval (min) saves to a temporary file with the extension .wings_as. It will NOT overwrite the current file. If there is a crash, the next time you try to open the file (with .wings extension), you will get a prompt asking you if you want to load the auto-saved file instead. (It compares the date/time of the files.) Auto-save won't start before you have done a save-as once. If you turn off auto-save (0) and then turn it on again, the auto-start mechanism won't start until the next time you start wings. It's not used for imported files. Enabling Auto-save also enables the auto backup function of Wings. A backup file will be saved each time you save your work, i.e. your previous file will be stored as FILENAME.wings_bup. If you want to load a backup file use Open and look for *.wings_bup files.

Advanced Menus enables Wings advanced menus operations. If advanced menus are turned on then you can use some of the advanced manipulation tools designed by Chris Osgood which have been incorporated into Wings. Many of these functions operate on the premise of selecting and using a secondary vector as a reference about which the advanced functions work. These vectors are visible (if advanced menus are on) and their appearance characteristics of width and color are user definable via the Vector Display Width and the Vector Display Color options here.

Show Debugging Info works as a toggle. If activated, the amount of memory currently being used by Wings, the number of items in the display list and the number of binaries in use are displayed dynamically in the lower left of the workspace.

Another point, Wings keeps your custom preferences even when you upgrade to a new version.

Figure 39: Compatibility. Use the Edit|Compatibility Menu to fix display and operational problems if you have difficulties running Wings on your system. EDIT | COMPATIBILITY

The Compatibility menu allows the user to toggle on/off several options in Wings. These are; Optimize display lists, Use display lists for text, Show dummy axis letter, and Early back buffer clear. In general, you shouldn't change these options from their default values unless you have some sort of problem using Wings.

One-button mouse: The default is on. To use the default Wings/Blender camera mode on a Mac with a one-button mouse you must first enable this option. To emulate the middle mouse button hold down the [Alt/Option] key. To emulate the right mouse button hold down the [Command] key. This option has no effect on Windows or Linux® based systems.

Optimize display lists: This is a toggle that tells Wings to optimize how it handles the internal list of drawing elements for screen refreshment. It is generally recommended that this option be set to On. However, some combinations of drivers/graphics card seems to handle it incorrectly, causing Wings to crash with a General Protection Fault or similar. So if you have display problems or crashes, try turning this off to see if that solves the problem. The default setting is on, which is the fastest setting.

Use display lists for text: The default is on. If text doesn't show up in menus and other places, try turning off this option. (Known to be an issue on some Matrox cards.)

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� Section 5.1 The Menus WINGS3D USER MANUAL Show dummy axis letter: The default is off. If Wings crashes when trying to open menus when the axes and/or axis letters are turned off, try turning on this option. (Known to be an issue on some Matrox cards.)

Early back buffer clear: The default is off on Mac OS X and default on on all other platforms. There is probably no reason to change this option.

There are two screen buffers, a front buffer and a back buffer. The front buffer is what you currently see on screen. The back buffer is used for drawing what you will see next. When everything is drawn, the buffers are swapped.

On all platforms but Mac OS X, Wings clears the back buffer immediately after swapping (because that is somewhat faster). That is what Björn calls "early clear". On Mac OS X, it seems that the back buffer can be used by the OS, which resulted in a blank Wings window. When the option is turned off, Wings does a "late clear", i.e. it will clear the back buffer immediately before starting to draw in it.

EDIT | PURGE UNDO HISTORY

This will purge the undo history, as stated. If you purge the history, you will not be able to

UNDO changes to your model. The function is intended to reclaim memory. It is especially useful in one situation; when smoothing large models. If you find that you are running out of memory, purge the undo history after each smoothing.

Quick Tip: Repeat and the Function Keys

You can do some quick and easy modifications to a model through the combination of the Repeat (D) and Repeat Drag (Shift+D) operations and the F3/F4 (Next Loop/Previous Loop) keys. The Repeat and Repeat Drag operations can be performed over and over again on successive loops as you F3 and F4 your way up and down a portion of your model. A simple example would be, if you wanted to make a segmented body, such as a worm. You could start with a many segmented cylinder, then choose the first loop that you wanted to adjust and do a Scale | Uniform. Then you would hit F3 twice to move up two loops and reapply the Scale | Uniform by simply hitting Shift+D. Or to make the worm tapered, hit D and use the mouse to adjust the amount of scaling. Keep repeating the process until you have the entire cylinder done.

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Welcome to Wikibooks! I saw you introduce yourself in the reading room, and you said you were interested in history. I too love history, and I have several ideas for books I might like to work on in the future. Any particular time periods or regions you are interested in? Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk | email | contribs ) 20:45, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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Maybe we should add something to the following topic "Safe failure modes: embedded systems can always fail, but the result of the failure should be predictable and safe. For example, an error is a car's motor control unit should result in halting the motor, not in making it accelerate uncontrollably."

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Something like this. Maybe you can make it a little bit briefer. Anyway, my point is to make the reader clear that a safe mode not always consists of shutting down the systems completely, but rather follow a safe shut-down procedure, like in a nuclear power plant. --VanVlem (talk) 19:37, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


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I live in Spain and speak Spanish (though I'm a native English speaker). I always here the term "complexión" on the news to describe physical build i.e.: "complexión fuerte" is used to describe a fat person without being rude. I have never heard it being used in a psychological sense.

The term "actualmente" means currently, "actual" means current. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.40.168.19 (talk • contribs).
 * I've fixed actual, and I too have only heard complexión as a reference to someone's physical build. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk | email | contribs ) 22:58, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

How about adding simpático as in that it doesn't mean sympathetic?

False Genders
See also Firespeaker.org for a list of false genders in various romance languages, including Spanish. Jade Knight (talk) 13:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

False cognates are not false friends
According to the article in Wikipedia false cognate, the term false cognates is used incorrectly here. For example, Librería and Library are false friends, but true cognates, for cognates are words that have a common etymological origin, and both Librería and Library are from Latin liber, etc. --Rostofanych (discuss • contribs) 14:29, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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This tense should be called "past perfect" or the "pluperfect". You can't have an imperfect perfect tense! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.40.168.19 (talk • contribs).
 * Yes, you're right. It was named this way to be consistent with the organization of these appendices. Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk | email | contribs ) 23:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Bundimun

Overview
A Bundimun is a wizard's pest with many spindly legs. It resembles fungus.

Extended Description
Bundimuns are found worldwide. Bundimuns are known as a house pest, destroying the house from the inside out. Unless an exterminator is called in, a house infested with Bundimuns could collapse on itself.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Moke

Extended Description
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hagrid gives Harry a Mokeskin bag for his birthday. This is used for valuables; things placed in it can only be retrieved by the owner. Harry wears it around his neck for the rest of the book, keeping his most valued possessions in it.


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Doom Modding

This is a tutorial on making mods for Doom or Doom 2. This tutorial also works for editing Heretic or Hexen (I think.)

PART 1: SPRITE TUTORIAL

Tools needed for modding:

1: XWE - eXtendable Wad Editor

2: Doom Builder

3. WhackEd

4. zDoom (best for loading mods)

First Tutorial: Adding Sprites...

Okay, you've played it, now you want to make it! Doing that won't be easy, you will have to work! First, open up a new version of XWE if you have it. Go to the section at the bottom called SPRITES. Sprites are anything that moves, shoots, is able to be picked up - basically anything that isn't the walls, ceilings, skies, floors, coding, or surfaces. The first sprite that normally comes up is CHGGA0, the "chaingun barrel rotation sequence 1" sprite. If you want to change it or any sprite you want to (let's just do CHGGA0), go up to the top and select ENTRY, REPLACE (not Replace RAW DATA) open a folder, choose an image, with a light blue or purple background. If it has one of the two color backgrounds, then it can be successfully converted to a sprite.

Now, three things can happen here. The first thing that could happen is that the weapon is perfectly settled on the HUD simulator. The second thing that could happen is that the sprite could be NOT on the HUD simulator. This means that you didn't take that sprite from another WAD. It hasn't been configured yet. The third thing is that the weapon is chopped up, super large, and awful-looking. The sprite is too large. Go ahead and resize it down a bit.

If you want your sprite to show up on the "HUD-style fix," which you normally will if your sprites aren't too large, then put a "-" (without the quotes) before the coordinate's number. By the way, if your sprite is too big, it will not shrink it down.

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User talk:Earpiercing~enwikibooks

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