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Is it possible to set speed/time-to-travel for the program in general? I know this is a parameter that can be set in scripts (visibile in various demos, etc.) to "smooth" the movement when travelling from one location to another. Is it possible to set a global delay/travel-time setting for the program when running in an interactive mode?

VictorZ

VictorZ wrote:Is it possible to set speed/time-to-travel for the program in general? I know this is a parameter that can be set in scripts (visibile in various demos, etc.) to "smooth" the movement when travelling from one location to another. Is it possible to set a global delay/travel-time setting for the program when running in an interactive mode?

VictorZ

No, you can't. You'd have to recompile Celestia to adjust it.

Christophe,

Darn, that's what I figured.

Maybe a "feature" request?? An adjustable "speed" parameter (in the main config file?) and perhaps a "jump" button that just plops you into the new location for those "just can't wait" moments.

I thought about quickly adding a setting for the travel speed to the .cfg file, but I think the right way to do this is to create a preferences dialog and/or allowing keys to be bound to scriptlets. So, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit until the next version of Celestia unless you want to recompile.

--Chris

Chris,

Sounds great ... I'm in no hurry and will gladly wait until the next release/beta as I'm not set up to do a compile on my own, though perhaps this is an excuse to look into it.

Huge kudos on this excellent piece of software !!

VictorZ

hello,

my question is can i configure the travel time?. when i press "g" it always takes 4 seconds independent from the distance of the travel. i would like to watch the movement in f.e. 20 seconds.

thanks
roman

chris wrote:I thought about quickly adding a setting for the travel speed to the .cfg file, but I think the right way to do this is to create a preferences dialog and/or allowing keys to be bound to scriptlets.

I would LIKE (!!!!!!!) things to be 'quickly' added to the *.cfg file.
In fact a lot of them are missing there. A *.cfg file is easy to edit, can be easily replaced for unlimited different settings and can be dynamically created from outside (controlling) programs. None of that can be done with a preference dialog. (Well of course you can use it to setup things from inside the program - and then write them to a *.cfg file).

gfoe, maxim