Slowing down 'Goto target'?

[Evil Dr Ganymede]

Is there a way to persuade Celestia to take longer than 4 or 5 seconds to go to a target if you type in its name and then press the 'G' key? I find one gets there a bit too quickly to appreciate the view on the way .

[Gordon nolog]

Yes. Detailled how to in Fred Gregorio's user guide :

http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/documentation.html

G.

[selden]

I didn't find anything obvious after doing a quick search of the manual.

The method of travelling slowly that I know about requires a script contaiing a single command. Unfortunately Frank left scripting for Part 3, which isn't available yet.

Create a file named GoSlowly.cel which contains just the one line

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{ goto { time 20 } }

Leave a window open showing the directory where you've put this script.
After selecting the destination object by whatever means is approprite, just double-click on the icon for this script.

The time parameter specifies the number of seconds to take. You can set to whatever value you deem appropriate.

Does this help?

[Gordon nolog]

oops sorry, too fast reading, too fast answering. The one I was thinking of was rotation accelaration which can be tuned in the celestia.cfg file.


G.

[Evil Dr Ganymede]

Selden - thanks, that vaguely helps, but I'd rather there was a way to just change the default value of the time taken than having to keep clicking on the script all the time. Is there no way to do that?

[selden]

Dr Ganymede,

I don't know. I'd have to dig through the source code on SourceForge. You'd probably do just as well as I could, if not better, at finding the relevant code, since I'm not fluent in C++. Hopefully one of the developers will chime in here.

[chris]

There's no way to do it in the UI right now, although it's a fairly simple code modification to the code. I'll see about exposing it somehow, either through the UI or a script command.

--Chris

[Evil Dr Ganymede]

That would be very cool. Thanks!

[Darkmiss]

It would be much better through the UI.

Would there be a way to have a blank box setting in the options
where you just type any number in, and it would use that number for the amount of seconds to fly to an object ?

Or at least a drop down selection like you use for the screen size
ranging from 5 to ??? seconds

[Guest]

perhaps a logarithmic scale would work better ..... ie something like earth to moon takes 3 seconds ..... earth to mars takes 6 seconds ... earth to pluto takes 20 seconds ..... just a thought

[jamarsa]

perhaps a logarithmic scale would work better ..... ie something like earth to moon takes 3 seconds ..... earth to mars takes 6 seconds ... earth to pluto takes 20 seconds ..... just a thought

Going out the galaxy... 20 years?

[Darkmiss]

LOL

[fsgregs]

I too would support a global option to slow down the "goto" time, perhaps via a line in the cfg file.



Frank

[Paolo]

I agree with Darkmiss.
A small UI implementation should be better.
I'll insert in my feature requests list.

Paolo