Lua display ON/OFF command for bodies

[mjoubert]

Hi all,

when I display a spacecraft in Celestia, it's usefull to display its axis. So I made a 3-axis 3ds model which has the same ssc definition.

When using ScriptedOrbit, I use a hack to toggle display of these axis. A command set axis OFF : axis body is located at earth center (not visible). Axis ON makes axis at spacecraft location.

It would be very usefull to have a lua command like object.display( OFF ) to avoid this hack.

Is this possible and scheduled?

Mathieu (spacebel)

[Cham]

I'm also asking for "layers" in Celestia, to display various kind of custom classes of objects : coordinates grids, magnetic field lines, etc, with some keyboard shortcuts. It's in my "wishes list".

[chris]

Yes, this feature is planned for the near future. There will be the ability to turn off individual objects as well as whole classes of objects.

--Chris