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Hi, I use Celestia in a Planetarium. We show some scripts that need to get interrupted from time to time for the speaker to explain. I've also create bigger fonts for the people to easily read the messages. Anyway, when I press the space bar to pause a script, I find this big message in the center o...

do you use windows? me not :) anyway, in windows I would do: os.execute("start c:\\path\\file.mp3") this will start your mp3 player and immediately release the control back to celestia so it can go on displaying 3D animations. Open a DOS console and type "start /?" for more information. If you're a ...

ok sorry I didn't RTFM enough. I added a:

celestia:requestsystemaccess()


and now everything is fine.

Thank you
Alessio Sangalli

Hi, I would like to call an external program in the middle of my celestia script: ret = os.execute("/usr/bin/mplayer -fs /path/intro.mpg") (I tested also other commands of course) I always get this error: Celestia encountered an error while processing your script Details [string "/home/alesan/lavori...

I solved by myself: 1) download in a directory: - http://resumbrae.com/ub/dms424_s03/26/programs/TexFont.h - http://resumbrae.com/ub/dms424_s03/26/programs/gentexfont.c 2) compile: $ gcc -lglut -lGLU -lGL -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lm gentexfont.c -o gentexfont 3) list available fonts: $ xlsfonts [...]...

Hi, where can I find new fonts to display script output? I would like a much bigger font for the text to be readable by a person a couple of meters away from the screen.

Thank you
Alessio Sangalli

Thank you I'll check out those commands. And, I really want Celestia to stop while I show a video or a brief Impress presentation.
I'll post the results as soon as I implement them...

Thank you
Alessio Sangalli

Two quick question I couldn't find an answer. Is it possible to include an external file from a celx script? It would be very useful.

Is it also possible to execute an external command (like a video player) from a script?

Thank you
Alessio Sangalli