Improvements to info text for orbiting objects

[Pipcard]

Orbiting object
Distance:
Radius:
Apparent Diameter:
Phase angle:
Rotation Period:
Orbital Period:
Temperature:
Distance from parent object:
Oblateness:


Additions are in italics.

[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

[Pipcard]

How do you install that?

[Fenerit]

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.

[Pipcard]

I don't trust the links. Two of them are 404 pages (one in French).

[Fenerit]

I don't trust the links. Two of them are 404 pages (one in French).

These are servers issues; try later.

[Vincent]

I don't trust the links. Two of them are 404 pages (one in French).

I just fixed the link. It should work now.

[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"?

[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.