Celestia Scripts: my point of view

[Guest]

The focus has switched to making scripting with Lua as powerful as possible

(Chris)

When will Celestia support Lua scripts? 1 week, 1 month, 1 year?
Sorry to ask, but i'm looking forward to it!

I think it's a good idea to change the script system. It could be really fun to create scripts and enjoy others, but yet there's almost no script available.. probably because the current script language is not easy to handle.

Idea: Record the user input in real-time and translate it automatically in a script commands text file. When you execute it, you see exactly the same (as if it was a movie). Do you see what i mean? That would be great!!! But i don't know if it's easy to code or not


In my point of view, Script is the key to Celestia Success (sure, it's already successful, but... there are still people who buy "Starry Night" or "Red Shift" software)!

Keep the pressure


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[selden]

Celestia's current .CEL scripting is a *very* simple "go here, look there" facility.

I'm sorry to say that if you think the current scripting is "not easy to handle", then you may need to think twice about scripting at all.

Unlike the current .CEL scripting, Lua is a real programming language. It's extremely powerful. Unless you're already familiar with Maple's programming language (or so I'm told ), using Lua properly will require thorough study of its reference manual.

See http://www.lua.org/