Celestia Forums

I put a star into a really big orbit around a barycenter, and I noticed that the star's planets disappear at the 1 light year boundary of star systems, even though it is a star with its own STC definition.

Here's the STC:


And the SSC for one of its planets:



Is this a bug, or is it intentional for a star's planets to disappear when the star moves beyond the 1 LY boundary?

It has always been this way.
I don't think it's a bug, more an issue of it not being implemented.

Hungry4info wrote:It has always been this way.
I don't think it's a bug, more an issue of it not being implemented.

I known that for a while. I just assumed that since it was an STC star, the SSC companions would stay visible.

The other thing I noticed, while the STC star has it's own 1 LY radius when the orbit specs are removed and a RA/Dec declaration is put in; when it is in the orbit that I specified, it's SSC companions can be seen from Sol, even though the star is two light years out, yet when I approach it, the SSC objects disappear when I reach Sol's 1 LY boundary.

I just wanted to know whether that was on purpose or not. I forgot to mention this (the stuff I talked about in the previous paragraph) in the OP.

Yes,
This is a long known "feature": viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10392&p=80887&hilit=light+year#p80887

I assume it's a decision made by Chris at some point for efficiency reasons (ie. to avoid having to calculate orbits for planets that are so far away they're not visible).