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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 .

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

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

G.

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


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?

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.

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?

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.

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

That would be very cool. Thanks!

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

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

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?

LOL

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



Frank

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

Paolo