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Exporting to planetarium software like Celestia etc

gymnophoriaggymnophoria
edited October 2015 in AstroSynthesis General
Is there a way to export Astrosynthesis-generated system to a third party app like Celestia or Universal Sandbox? Since the new .Astro format is a database format, has anyone tried converting?

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  • Ed_NBOSEd_NBOS
    Astro's "AstroDB" files are SQLite databases. They can be accessed using most programming languages and some database tools. The table structure should be pretty straight forward. You can also use the XML export plugin that ships with Astro (Plugins - XML Export from the menu)
  • MGCJerryMMGCJerry
    Never knew the data was in sqlite format. I have plenty of things to read sqlite which makes exporting a cinch. However, how would one get access to the internal generated surface maps? Are they in the sqlite file as well or is there another procedure to retrieve the maps?...
  • Ed_NBOSEd_NBOS
    The surface maps are stored as blobs in the surface_maps table (in the AstroDB file). It only stores surface maps if you've used "Edit Surface Maps". Otherwise, if you are just clicking around on planets, it generates temporary surface maps that are not saved.

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