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Is it possible for the orbit colour for dwarf planets to be a different colour than that for the main planets? The solar system looks pretty messy if they're both the same colour It would be nice to be easily able to distinguish between them.

Perhaps a similar or slightly different shade of colour would be best, as they're similar types of objects.

Please take as a suggestion for the next version of Celestia - also, if this is possible to do in a configuration file in the current version, would someone mind telling me how to do this?

Many thanks

Hello ianmacfarlane,

Probably better a late answer than no answer.
You can change the color of specific orbits, using the celestia:setlinecolor() method within e CELX script

To turn the color for Darf Planets into cyan, make a CELX: orbitcolor.celx which contains the following code:

You can call it for instance each time after you startup Celestia.

The celestia:setlinecolor() method is further documented at:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/Celx_Scripting/CELX_Lua_Methods/Celx_celestia#setlinecolor

Marco