Problem D3D9 Client planetarium mode issue

[paravantis]

I just discovered and successfully installed the D3D9 client for Orbiter 2010 (100830).

One issue came up: when I toggle the Planetarium Mode (F9) to display the constellations, I have the constellation lines shown but not the constellation labels (i.e. the names of the constellations). Planet names on the other hand display successfully.

If I may add that these show correctly in the vanilla Orbiter 2010 (not the client).

Any suggestions?

 

[asbjos]

When running a simulation, press Ctrl+F9. In the box which appears, you can change what you will see with planetarium mode enabled. Please note that planetarium mode must be enabled to toggle the different lines and labels.

 

[Ripley]

I guess you just found a bug!
Same behaviour, no constellation labels in D3D9.

 

[paravantis]

I activated planetarium mode, pressed CONTROL-F9 and confirmed that although constellation lines may be turned on or off, constellation names are always off no matter what I select.

Looks like a small bug, hope it is corrected in the future.

Thank you both for the time you took to respond!

 

[kuddel]

I activated planetarium mode, pressed CONTROL-F9 and confirmed that although constellation lines may be turned on or off, constellation names are always off no matter what I select.

You're right! Currently no external Graphic Client does[1]

I took a quick look at the available (Orbiter-)API and can not find a API Method to receive the constellation names.
It seems that the doctor has not provided that API (yet)[2].
It might be possible to reverse engineer the data-format of "constell2.bin" which seems to hold the names, but I would prefer an "official" API.

As I said, I just took a 'quick' look, so the API might be there but I didn't see it

Has anyone any better information? Or should we (I) ask the doctor to provide the needed API?

Regards,
Kuddel
[1] neither the D3D7Client (reference implementation), nor D3D9Client nor D3D11Client.
[2] ...something like "GetCelestialMarkers" does, but for constellation names, or enhance "LoadConstellationLines" to provide names, too.

 

[Ripley]

Well, if there really isn't, let's ask the Doc!

 

[kuddel]

...until then, one might take a look at D3D9Client Beta 7
This is for Orbiter 2014 Beta rev.8 (a.k.a. Orbiter 140602)

/Kuddel