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I wonder why Celestia's catalog files are written with all that space when I can write it without the space and it will work just as fine. Here is what I mean.

The normal script:

"c" "HD 75732"
{
Texture "jupiterlike.jpg"

Mass 70
Radius 56000

EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.1212
SemiMajorAxis 0.241
Eccentricity 0.339
ArgOfPericenter 279
MeanAnomaly 67
}

RotationPeriod 10
}


Or I can write it like this without the long spaces and it can still work:

"c" "HD 75732"
{
Texture "jupiterlike.jpg"
Mass 70
Radius 56000
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.1212
SemiMajorAxis 0.241
Eccentricity 0.339
ArgOfPericenter 279
MeanAnomaly 67
}
RotationPeriod 10
}

No, that's not how I the message is suppose to look, I didn't post it like that. These message boards aren't very flexible. I wish I could edit my message and do it over. Let me say it again...

I wonder why Celestia's catalog files are written with all that space when I can write it without the space and it will work just as fine. Here is what I mean.

The normal script:

"c" "HD 75732"
{
Texture "jupiterlike.jpg"

Mass 70
Radius 56000

EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.1212
SemiMajorAxis 0.241
Eccentricity 0.339
ArgOfPericenter 279
MeanAnomaly 67
}

RotationPeriod 10
}


Or I can write it like this without the long spaces and it can still work:

"c" "HD 75732"
{
Texture "jupiterlike.jpg"
Mass 70
Radius 56000
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 0.1212
SemiMajorAxis 0.241
Eccentricity 0.339
ArgOfPericenter 279
MeanAnomaly 67
}
RotationPeriod 10
}

Noooo! It did it again, the message is not suppose to look like that. How can I explain what I'm saying if the messege won't post as it's suppose to????

Register as a user so you can edit your posts.

Then use the box to print text with lots of spaces etc.

The whitespace is there for human readability.

If you don't need to include any comments, you can even put everything on one line.

(The only comment character that I know about is #, which means "ignore to end of line")

Polchei

You can't use normal html code on this forum. Press quote on my post above to see how I got the code to come out.

And for pity's sake register with the forum, so you can at least delete your failed efforts!

Grant