[Solved] how to do Simulation and realtime visualization

[Stuffer]

Hi,

I have a question concerning the actual time-functions of celestia.

When simulating a s/c I'm usually not simulating at current time so I have to tell Celestia the time of the simulation.
Now I know that there's the function settime(number:time) which sets the (displayed) time in celestia.
And when I use this function in a celx-script the timesetting works fine.

But when I do the call to this function in a hook script Celestia crashes regularly. So is there a special point of celestia's running time when I can at first do this call?
Or can I / do I have to access the start.cel-file from within a hook script and change the starting time in there when running celestia?

Since the starting time of the simulation is likely to change several times it's not really sufficient to manually change the starting script before running Celestia. Though it would do if there's no other opportunity.

Thanks
Stuffer

[Vincent]

Now I know that there's the function settime(number:time) which sets the (displayed) time in celestia.
And when I use this function in a celx-script the timesetting works fine.

But when I do the call to this function in a hook script Celestia crashes regularly. So is there a special point of celestia's running time when I can at first do this call?

Stuffer,

I've been using the settime function in the Lua Tools which are based on the Lua Hooks process.
It works great, and I've never had the kind of issue you've reported. Could you post the piece of
code that is causing the crash ?

[Stuffer]

Vincent,

thanks a lot for mentioning that it should work.
Now I figured out that my mistake was somewhere else.
I assume that it was never an actual crash but something like a timeout because the hookscript was stuck and that's why Celestia didn't do any further things.

Thanks
Stuffer

[Vincent]

thanks a lot for mentioning that it should work.

Stuffer, you're welcome. Glad you've figured this out.

[Stuffer]

I'm glad so.

Me too.

My application is working properly .

Thanks to all helping hands in here!

--Stuffer