Add-ons and Mac

[surket]

Came across Celestia only a couple of weeks ago and could not believe what a wonderful tool it was. I ran the built-in demo and then tried a few examples such as the solar system tour in amazement. However I have so far failed to install a single add-on.
When I installed the latest version of Celestia, two empty directories ("extras" and "scripts") were created in:

/Library/Application Support/CelestiaResources

I have followed the instructions of every add-on and placed its files and directories
where I was told to no avail -- they are simply ignored.

The program itself runs fine and faithfully displays all the built-in textures. I would be very grateful of someone could provide me with a step-by-step example.

Is there a forum that deals with Mac issues only?

Many thanks in advance

Ben

[bh]

Hi Ben... you will have to put your add ons in the applications resources folder.

On my mac it's Applications/Celestia 1.6.0/Celestia.app - show package contents/Contents/Resources/CelestiaResources/extras-standard

Most of the add-ons will unzip to a folder which you put in here.

[john Van Vliet]

there is a wiki page ( install only from svn)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/D ... S_platform
but the wiki needs a mac section
Linux and Windows both use the celestia/extras/ folder

Mac's do not

it would not be possible to have both in the same zip file

All of my add on's extract to /extras/JohnVV/ ( except for some old ones that have not been updated)
and most extract to /extras/"It'sName "