I NEED HELP

[ElPelado]

can someone explain me why this code works:

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"Death Star 2" "rho crb"
{
       Mesh "Dstar2.3ds"
       Radius 130
       EllipticalOrbit {   
      Period            2
      SemiMajorAxis     24200
                       }
       Atmosphere     
           { 
           CloudMap "DStar.dds"
           }
       RotationPeriod 0.2
}

and this one doesn't:

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"Death Star 2" "HD 154116/Endor"
{
       Mesh "Dstar2.3ds"
       Radius 130
       EllipticalOrbit {   
      Period            2
      SemiMajorAxis     8200
                       }
       Atmosphere     
           { 
           CloudMap "DStar.dds"
           }
       RotationPeriod 0.2
}[quote]

the only difference is his position. the first one i see it without problems, the second one, it doesnt exist. it doesnt even appear one the solar sytem browser.[/quote]

[JackHiggins]

Because you need to put in a # before any text that doesn't directly specify orbital data/rotaion obliquity etc.
Write it like this & you'll be ok

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"Death Star 2" "HD 154116/Endor"
{
       Mesh "Dstar2.3ds"
       Radius 130
       EllipticalOrbit
{   
      Period            2
      SemiMajorAxis     8200
                       }
       Atmosphere     
           { 
           CloudMap "DStar.dds"
           }
       RotationPeriod 0.2
}

#the only difference is his position. the first one i see it without problems,
#the second one, it doesnt exist. it doesnt even appear one the solar
#sytem browser.

[Paul]

Jack, that bit of text wasn't supposed to be in his quote!
You can see the "quote" symbol where the text actually ended in his post...

Cheers,
Paul

[granthutchison]

Can you see Endor in orbit around HD 154116? Have you named it correctly? If Celestia doesn't find precisely the object name you've written, it won't place the satellite.

Grant

[ElPelado]

yes, i see endor, and i also see the "death star 2" orbiting around the "rho crb" star. the only problem is that i cannot see it orbiting around endor.
i opend the star wars.ssc and copyed the exact name of endor to my death star 2.ssc. but it doesnt work.

[ElPelado]

i forgot to tell you that i also tryed to put it around naboo and it doesnt work too. and i also tryed to put this orbiting endor, and it ALSO didnt work:

"mio" "HD 154116/endor"
{
Mesh "ufo.3ds"
Radius 130
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 2
SemiMajorAxis 8200
}
RotationPeriod 0.2
}

[ElPelado]

i solved the problem:
i put the death satr and the endor codes in the same .ssc file, and now, i dont know why, it works!
thanks for the help anyway

[Ortolan]

It's because Celestia was loading deathstar2.ssc before loading starwars.ssc and not finding Endor. (ssc files are loaded alphabetically and D is before S)