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6 openuniverse - 3D space simulation
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9 openuniverse [-bench][-fullscreen[mode_string]]
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12 This manual page documents briefly the openuniverse command.
13 OpenUniverse (also called OU) is a fun, fast and free OpenGL space sim‐
15 ulator. It currently focusses on the Solar System and lets you visit
16 all of its planets, most major moons and a vast collection of smaller
17 bodies in colorful, glorious and realtime 3D. If you've ever had a
18 chance to visit Mercury or asteroid Geographos, here you'll find them
19 looking exactly the same way, following exactly the same path as when
20 you've left them.
21 This program really benefits of a 3D accelerator graphic card. It's
23 the only way to ensure a decent framerate (speed).
24 When OpenUniverse starts up we suggest to simply lay back for a few
26 seconds. Because you have just reached Earth! OU's main screen with
27 it's helpful information shows up now and the blue planet will slowly
28 rotate in front of you, while you have a moment to enjoy it's beauty
29 and fragility.
30 To view the Help press the 'H' key, you can swith on and off the demo
32 mode with the 'd' key. For other commands and functions see OU's man‐
33 ual.
34 This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
36 because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it
37 has documentation in the HTML format; see below.
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40 A summary of options is included below. For a complete description,
41 see OU's manual.
42 -h, --help
44 Show summary of options.
45 -bench Do a benchmark of your system.
47 -fullscren mode_screen
49 Launch openuniverse fullscren. The value mode_screen defines the
50 screen resolution, colordepth and refresh rate. For example the
51 command line openuniverse -fullscreen 640x480:32@70 will run
52 OpenUniverse in an resolution of 640x480 pixels, a colordeph of
53 32 bit (truecolor) and at a refresh rate of 70Hz. Please note
54 that the characters 'x' and ':' are important and can't be
55 removed (you don't have to suppy refresh rate if you don't want
56 as it'll use default refresh rate for the supplied resolution).
57 Note as well that a lot of 3D cards are only capable of resolu‐
58 tions up to 800x600 and colordepths up to 16bit.
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61 The programs are documented in the manual pages (not quite complete
62 yet) available in /usr/share/openuniverse/docs. Also go away and check
63 the screenshots (not available in this package) that can be seen in
64 www.openuniverse.org
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67 /usr/share/openuniverse/textures
68 Textures used for planets.
69 /usr/share/openuniverse/fonts
71 Fonts used by the program.
72 /usr/share/openuniverse/3dmodels
74 Three dimensional models of the objects (satellites and space
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76 /usr/share/openuniverse/data
78 Stellar data sets, it includes a few objects from the Messier
79 catalog and a basic set of bright stars derived from the yale
80 bright star catalog (it includes only those entries Bayer and/or
81 Flamsteed number and provides common names which were overlayed
82 by closes postition match from a hand-edited list) /etc Location
83 of the configuration of openuniverse (ou.conf)
84 /usr/share/openuniverse/docs
86 Additional documentation.
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91 This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@com‐
92 puter.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
93 Modified for Fedora by Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@redhat.com>
94 December 18, 2007 OPENUNIVERSE(1)