Re: [Celestia-developers] Ecliptic patch

[Chris L. <cl...@gm...>]

I've committed this patch to SVN. At the moment, the ecliptic may only
be toggled via celx script.

--Chris

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Chris Laurel <cl...@gm...> wrote:
> As long as I was writing the new grid code, I thought it might be nice
> to also be able to view the ecliptic. Since Celestia's coordinate
> system is based on the ecliptic and mean equinox of J2000, the code to
> draw the ecliptic line is trivial. Here's the patch with code for
> drawing the ecliptic and turning it on and off via script:
>
> http://www.shatters.net/~claurel/celestia/files/patches/ecliptic/ecliptic.patch
>
> Here's a two-linescript to toggle the ecliptic visibility:
>
> enabled = celestia:getrenderflags().ecliptic
> celestia:setrenderflags{ecliptic = not enabled}
>
> --Chris
>