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What a nice supprise after all these years
Thank you development team for the efforts.

There is a special CELX method for this.
See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Celx_Scripting/CELX_Lua_Methods/Celx_object#setorbitvisibility

Marco

Good to see you have a solution.

Marco

Next to Fenerit's suggestion,

Depending on the Sol addon you have in use, there are Sol addons with solar flares and prominences implemented as "clouds".
Simply pressing the [i] key, or turning off cloud rendering in the script might also solve your issue.

Marco

Hello jiveabillion, It is possible in scripts to show velocity vectors for objects in Celestia, within a script. It is however the design of Celestia, what these velocity vectors represent. And your question, regarding the path around the galaxy is not (yet) one of the possibilities. Objects have th...

Yes, you can write a file with a script. See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Celx_Scripting/CELX_Lua_Methods/Celx_celestia#requestsystemaccess for an example.

Marco

Hello jiveabillion, This is not really a scripting issue. What you ask cannot be solved by scripting. Unfortunately for you, the way Celestia handles orbit drawing, differs from your wish, and there is no option to set it. There is however a way Celestia can draw these kind of parabolic arcs by pred...

Probably a "partial" eclipse ?
Check and move in the expected shadow area on the surface of Earth, to see if it should be a total eclipse with a shadow...

there is a bug in that add on the English ( en ) folder is missing Not quite true... Because Lua_Edu_Tools are default written in English, there is NO need for a locale "en" directory. There are also no subdirectories defined in the ..\extras\lua_edu_tools-b9\tools folder. The English def...

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: After having Celestia Development in hibernation for a long time now, we were lucky to still have some very worthfull developers on this forum, helping, producing and developing a variety of addons, which interested a brought part of the forum members. Now we let t...

A re-visit to this "old" thread. Meanwhile I improved this add-on with the following: * Sami Constellations added * Norse Constellations added * Interantional Astronomical Union (IAU) Constellations added * Hawaiian Starlines added * Plug-in for Lua_Edu_Tools and/or Lua_plugins, to switch ...

1.61 main program in China, was not any meaningful changes, they put a version number changed to 2.0, I ask the official whether this be allowed? (He could not publish the source code)

I don't get it at work at all :? So for me, there is no competition :wink: ephemerides.jpg Even the Earth has gone and the Sun at startup is also weird. Just leaving out "ephemerisBox", from the config.lua solves the problem, but leaves me NO ephemerides to test. Another suggestion for loc...

Small bug-fix repaired regarding the animation scripts and the length of Object names. Further I discovered in some supported languages, that the length of the text fields regarding the planets can sometimes also be a bit too long. So the adjustments regarding the length of object names in the Objec...

Because of a few modifications, I've uploaded a revised V2.1 of the ObjectsRiseSet addon. The main reason for this modification is the following: Because the Objects selected can now be any object, the object name can differ very much in length. That was not a problem for the Sun, Moon, Pluto and th...

Thanks John for the compliments
I'll continue to keep the addon quality according the very much appreciated guidelines
Hope I'll not fail

Marco

The Sun Rise/Set and Moon Rise/Set addons have meanwhile be more improved :!: :idea: :!: Instead of using Fundamental parameters, the addon now uses internal Celestia functionality. That also cleared the road to calculate the Rise/Set times on Earth of all Space objects available in Celestia. So the...

This is mend purely for save/backup the existing config.lua. Just safety reasons for a later possible fall-back. Copy it to any place you like or indeed rename it eg. config.bkp Reason: by the installation that follows, the existing config.lua will be overwritten. After the installation there will b...

As I further tested, this has NOTHING to do at all with "synchronizetime" between the different views, NOR something with my add-on. In fact, it is very easy reproducable: 1. Start Celestia 2. Press the [Ctrl + U] keys to verically split the screen 3. Turn markers on 4. Select a star by [l...

As far as I can see now, this effect ONLY happens for NON Solar System Objects.

Eg. selecting one of the Planets or the Sun in the above example, does not lead to the same issue.
But selecting a star (like Spica in the above example), immediately shows the mirrored 4-arrows marker.

Marco