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Just to bring the forum up to date... The code suggested by Fenerit was exactly what I needed. Even setting the default visibility to 'false' was required so that it reset properly when you ran it a second time. As soon as the flares are out of range I switch them off. The transition is very smooth....

Marco, I'm using the one that models flares as clouds. Even though pressing 'I' makes clouds invisible, there is still some component that becomes visible near the flare bases when the size of the sun shrinks to slightly larger than a pinpoint. It's at this point that it becomes ugly. Can I still us...

Massimo, Marco... Thank you very much. Massimo -- I was working on a similar concept, except the 'visible' setting doesn't work on stars. If I can, however, refer to the prominence components as 3d objects which I can turn on and off then that should work. In order to have the prominences erupt at t...

Hi, First -- Celestia is a fantastic piece of work. Thank you, thank you. I'm creating a Solar System animation using Celestia. The animation starts at the surface of the sun and then zooms out revealing the orbits of the inner planets. I have a celx script for this and I mostly have it working exce...

Hello all. New to the forums and Celestia. My Question: I'm trying to create an animation of a rotating galaxy like M31 or the Milky Way from the side. Well not perfectly edge-on, but maybe having the galaxy tilted towards the viewer by about 15-20 degrees. Here's what I'd like to do exactly: 1. Sta...