According to Chris Colefax's Galaxy.inc documentation, to turn off nebulae
(and just have a nifty background starfield) we should set galaxy_bgnebula
to false.  However, it doesn't appear that Moray will allow me to set this
value below 1.  Ideas of how to turn off nebulae?

Incidentally, this doesn't seem to work if I set galaxy_bgnebula = false by
hand in the pov output from Moray either.  But I suppose *that* question
shouldn't be asked here.  Not that I'd ever try and sneak in an extra
question that doesn't quite belong...

- How

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Hi How,
Just set the Options Only checkbox - however you will then have to
set-up all of the
other options that you need!

BFN

Keith

How Camp wrote:
> 
> According to Chris Colefax's Galaxy.inc documentation, to turn off nebulae
> (and just have a nifty background starfield) we should set galaxy_bgnebula
> to false.  However, it doesn't appear that Moray will allow me to set this
> value below 1.  Ideas of how to turn off nebulae?
> 
> Incidentally, this doesn't seem to work if I set galaxy_bgnebula = false by
> hand in the pov output from Moray either.  But I suppose *that* question
> shouldn't be asked here.  Not that I'd ever try and sneak in an extra
> question that doesn't quite belong...
> 
> - How

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Hmm.  Regardless as to whether Options Only is checked or not, Moray will
not allow me to lower bg_nebula below 1.  My (flawed?) impression is that
this is how to turn of the nebulae.  I cannot seem to turn them off from
within Moray (or by hand, either).  Sorry if I'm being dense here...

- How (the confused)

Keith Hull <kei### [at] totalisecouk> wrote in message
news:39579A86.2500F322@totalise.co.uk...
> Hi How,
> Just set the Options Only checkbox - however you will then have to
> set-up all of the
> other options that you need!
>
> BFN
>
> Keith
>

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How Camp <hca### [at] ksuedu> wrote:
> Hmm.  Regardless as to whether Options Only is checked or not, Moray will
> not allow me to lower bg_nebula below 1.  My (flawed?) impression is that
> this is how to turn of the nebulae.  I cannot seem to turn them off from
> within Moray (or by hand, either).  Sorry if I'm being dense here...

By hand, you will need to set the option after including Galaxy.inc and
before including Galaxy.bg (assuming you want to use Galaxy.inc to set some
random options - if not, you can skip it altogether and declare your desired
options before including Galaxy.bg), e.g.:

   #declare galaxy_seed = 12932;
   #declare options_only = true;
   #include "galaxy"

   #declare galaxy_bgnebula = false;
   #declare galaxy_nebula_sphere = false;
   #include "galaxy.bg"

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Hi How,

What version of the Galaxy PlugIn do you have?
The latest version should allow you to reduce the bg_nebula to 0.
Keith

How Camp wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  Regardless as to whether Options Only is checked or not, Moray will
> not allow me to lower bg_nebula below 1.  My (flawed?) impression is that
> this is how to turn of the nebulae.  I cannot seem to turn them off from
> within Moray (or by hand, either).  Sorry if I'm being dense here...
> 
> - How (the confused)
> 
> Keith Hull <kei### [at] totalisecouk> wrote in message
> news:39579A86.2500F322@totalise.co.uk...
> > Hi How,
> > Just set the Options Only checkbox - however you will then have to
> > set-up all of the
> > other options that you need!
> >
> > BFN
> >
> > Keith
> >

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Ah, it appears I have a version dated 1/6/00.  I'm downloading the updated
one right now.  Thanks, Keith.

And thank you, Chris as well - your advice fixed the hand-coding problem.

- How

Keith Hull <kei### [at] totalisecouk> wrote in message
news:3958D999.9A8DC9F8@totalise.co.uk...
> Hi How,
>
> What version of the Galaxy PlugIn do you have?
> The latest version should allow you to reduce the bg_nebula to 0.
> Keith

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