Solar Model 2.1 Readme
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    The Solar Model is real-time modeling of Solar System. It allows
user to navigate in space, to control time counting (speed-up time
flow) and estimate real movement of space bodies like planets, dwarf
planets and main moons. It also allows user to bind camera to space
objects (for example, you can look from Moon on Earth in real time
flow). Solar Model renders beautiful 3D space environment.
    Application has some very useful features. Some of them are:
Galaxy feature that able to render Milky Way galaxy and Ruler feature
that draws orbits of a planets and their projections on the Sun. As
Solar Model uses own related-sizes system, which only shows what planet
on which place from the Sun, how planets moves and rotates; user cannot
estimate real proportions of the bodies, because real proportions will
simply make all planets difficult to find in the dark space, the Sun
would occupy too much place while comparing it with any other planet.
   Solar Model 2.1 equipped with new feature -- Measurer, which allows
you to compare and measure size of the Sun and planets in real proportions
and their distance to each other.

Solar Model home page:
http://www.ffsoftworks.com/solarmodel.php

Latest version always available at:
http://www.ffsoftworks.com/solarmodel.php?show=downloads

For rendering Solar Model uses Irrlicht Engine:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/


Minimum System Requirements
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- 256 Mb RAM
- 10 Mb free disk space
- Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
- OpenGL 1.2 or Direct3D8 compatible video card
- Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2000/XP (Linux users read note below)

Note: Also you may use Solar Model under Linux system. For this you have
to compile sources with Irrlicht SDK (using latest SVN sources version
is strongly recommended). More details can be obtained at the web site.


License
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Solar Model is under GNU General Public License. Details is available at
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
and in License.txt file.


Contacts
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If you wish to contact us use following email address:
info@ffsoftworks.com


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Best Regards,
ff Softworks Team
