Re: [Celestia-developers] Noordwijk, new time scale adjustments

[Chris <elc...@ya...>]

Chris, don't you know that Vincent's tools give the user a much more =20
fine adjust of the time rate? It's was evident since a long time that =20=

this was a lack in Celestia implementation. The day we work on an =20
unified UI, many of Vincent's stuff should be revisited!


Le 31 oct. 07 =E0 00:49, Chris Laurel a =E9crit :

> At the workshop in Noordwijk yesterday, I discovered that many =20
> astrodynamics students are using Celestia for visualizing their =20
> graduate thesis projects. I saw a very nice video created with =20
> Celestia that depicted a sample return mission to Deimos. It was =20
> great to see and hear how frequently Celestia is used for such =20
> things. One very simple request from one of the students was that =20
> the time rate be more finely adjustable. It's easy to do this via a =20=

> script of course, but it occurred to me that we could also just =20
> overload the k and l keys:
>
> L: 10x faster
> l: 2x faster
> K: 10x slower
> k: 2x slower
>
> It's a very simple change to celestiacore.cpp. Can anyone think of =20
> a reason why this wouldn't be a good idea?
>
> Speaking of time rate adjustments . . . Yesterday I was amused when =20=

> a professor I was riding with remarked during a slow part of the =20
> drive, 'Press 'L' right now'.
>
> --Chris