Increase star render distance

[SevenSpheres]

Based on this thread and this one, I've increased the maximum star render distance to 1 billion light-years. Now Celestia should be able to render M87*, and other such distant objects.

[375gnu]

Have you tested it with larger stardb.dat? For example with one from Celestia Origin?

[SevenSpheres]

I haven't tested it at all, since I don't have a C++ compiler and there weren't any artifacts generated.
I don't see why simply increasing the render limit would cause problems.

[375gnu]

The more distant objects use have the deeper levels of octree present, i.e. more time required to traverse it.

[SevenSpheres]

Okay. Janus recompiled Celestia with the same one line change and had no problems (see the first link). You can check for yourself if you want. If there are really problems I can reduce the limit to 100 million light-years; this is still enough for M87*.

[375gnu]

He didn't tested it with larger stars.db. I will test it the other day.

[LafuenteAstronomy]

Maybe in the long run, you can probably test for around 100 GLY star render limit. Janus also made a commit regarding that but I forgot which number

[SevenSpheres]

Maybe in the long run, you can probably test for around 100 GLY star render limit.

It would be easy enough to increase the limit to 100 Gly - just add two more zeroes. However, I don't see the point, since this is larger than the observable universe.

[375gnu]

okay, i don't see performance drops with CO star db comparing to the default db