Display planets in magnified size.

[ANDREA]

Andrea, I'm aware of the glare problem with a large Sun. That's why I didn't made it this way in this addon.

Cham, I used a different approach to solve the glare problem, and I solved it, or at least in a way that's satisfactory for me.
I just modified with PhotoShop the flare.jpg image, making it black. Andrea

Cham, if you agree I would like to open a new thread in the "Addon" Forum, named "Solar System Planets Comparison", where I would put the link for the addon I modified from your one, obviously giving you credits.
Is this OK for you?
Please inform me.
Thank you.
Bye

Andrea

[ElChristou]

Cham, if you agree I would like to open a new thread in the "Addon" Forum, named "Solar System Planets Comparison"...

Why not all this stuff is not in "Education"? ok it's an addon but the purpose is clear enough to keep it in it's specific forum, no?

I'm wonder how to integrate this in the Edu tool; next to classical UI elements, we should think in a way to separate visually this kind of options... Perhaps a different color of font for the "extensions"? (compass, distance guide, info, magnified bodies, DSO survey etc...)

[ANDREA]

Cham, if you agree I would like to open a new thread in the "Addon" Forum, named "Solar System Planets Comparison"...

Why not all this stuff is not in "Education"? ok it's an addon but the purpose is clear enough to keep it in it's specific forum, no?

Chris, from my point of view I absolutely agree.
Cham?
Bye

Andrea

[Cham]

Andrea,

no problem. Open the new topic if you want.

[ANDREA]

Andrea, no problem. Open the new topic if you want.

Thank you Cham, appreciated!
Bye

Andrea

[ncc1701d]

Vincent....does the celestia_1.5CVS.exe still exist for download.
I was interested in using the magnified size mode.
I read the other posts but I was still interested in it.
I would only use it for inner planets so odd scaling of saturns moons doesnt matter if I am understanding any issues with it.
Can someone let me know status of this magnifiying option? or if there are some alternatives to accomplish it?
thanks
steve

[Vincent]

Vincent....does the celestia_1.5CVS.exe still exist for download.
I was interested in using the magnified size mode.
I read the other posts but I was still interested in it.
I would only use it for inner planets so odd scaling of saturns moons doesnt matter if I am understanding any issues with it.
Can someone let me know status of this magnifiying option? or if there are some alternatives to accomplish it?
thanks
steve

Steve,

The magnification option need Celestia 1.5 or later. You can download Celestia 1.5.1 from:
http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celest ... 5.1rc3.exe
I've edited my first post with this updated information. I've also added the whole script.

Then, here's a modified version of the script that lets you choose objects the magnification will be applied on.
Just edit the objpath_list to your specific needs.

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-- Map the toggleObjectSize function to the [D] key.
-- (Toggle the size of a list of objects between Real and Magnified Modes)

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-- Modify the following line to add/remove objects to be magnified.
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objpath_list = {"Sol/Mercury", "Sol/Venus", "Sol/Earth", "Sol/Mars"}

mag_coeff = 2e3

function toggleObjectSize()
   magnification = not(magnification)
   for k, objpath in pairs(objpath_list) do
     obj = celestia:find(objpath)
      if magnification then
         obj:setradius(obj:radius() * mag_coeff)
         celestia:print("Magnification enabled", 2, -1, -1, 1, 5)
      else
         obj:setradius(obj:radius() / mag_coeff)
         celestia:print("Magnification disabled", 2, -1, -1, 1, 5)
      end
   end
end

keyhandlers =
{
   d = toggleObjectSize,
}

function handlekey(k)
    handler = keyhandlers[k.char]
    if (handler ~= nil) then
        handler()
        return true
    else
        return false
    end
end

celestia:registereventhandler("key", handlekey)

[ncc1701d]

thanks Vincent
all works ok.
steve