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Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 10.10.2009, 00:13
by Pipcard
Orbiting object
Distance:
Radius:
Apparent Diameter:
Phase angle:
Rotation Period:
Orbital Period:
Temperature:
Distance from parent object:
Oblateness:


Additions are in italics.

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 10.10.2009, 13:05
by Fenerit
Pipcard, here you can find some Celestia's tools that add more information as you needs:
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13162&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

and here there is an enhancement of its relevant infoText for all SS objects.
http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=14215

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 10.10.2009, 16:48
by Pipcard
How do you install that?

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 10.10.2009, 17:03
by Fenerit
Pipcard wrote:How do you install that?

You must extract the zip archive in your Celestia folder, then you will see a new entry under ../celestia/extras/ called lua_edu_tools which has its subfolders. There are the instructions on how to add these tools to Celestia. You should add a line (with an editor) in celestia.cfg file.

For what concern the enhanced infoText.lua, simply backup the exant one and drop the new in its folder. This latter is a sub-folder of ../celestia/extra/lua_edu_tools called ../infos.

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 10.10.2009, 21:05
by Pipcard
I don't trust the links. Two of them are 404 pages (one in French).

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 10.10.2009, 21:09
by Fenerit
Pipcard wrote:I don't trust the links. Two of them are 404 pages (one in French).

These are servers issues; try later.

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 10.10.2009, 23:40
by Vincent
Pipcard wrote:I don't trust the links. Two of them are 404 pages (one in French).

I just fixed the link. It should work now.

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 11.10.2009, 21:52
by Pipcard
I have a question. Where do you add the LuaHook "luahookinit.lua" to the celestia.cfg file? And where do you place luahookinit.lua?

EDIT: Never mind

EDIT: Fenerit, how do you install "infoText.lua"?

Re: Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

Posted: 12.10.2009, 00:52
by Fenerit
In the ../infos subfolder of ..extras/lua_edu_tools/ folder. Backup the extant as infoText.lua.bak and then paste the new file infoText.lua in that folder.