Comment 2 for bug 880525

Thanks for the quick reply. I looked at the annual motion script. Forgive me for this, but that is the most awkward and clumsy way to do it I can imagine. In Digistar you simply suppress daily motion. Here's what it looks like in a D3 script. This is from my Christmas show.

21:47 scene date -5-04-17 08:00:00 dur 30 # Set Apr 17, 6 BC # Set up the sky.

22:22 eye daily off # Suppress daily motion
                scene date -4-01-31 sunset duration 50 # advance to Jan 1, 5 BC over 50 seconds
               Jupiter trail on # Jupiter leaves trail

That's all there is to it. The first date motion takes 30 seconds with daily motion, then the Jupiter sequence occurs over 50 seconds without daily motion. The first date setting occurs 21:47 into the show and the second at 22:22.

Hppe I'm not too much of a bother.

Jphn Cotton