LUA No access to planet parameters through Lua

[Wishbone]

All right, I'm lazy and I like rapid prototyping. Decided to port functions to calculate sun-synchronous ApA/PeA/inclination to Lua and failed to find oapi.get_planetperiod, oapi.get_planetjcoeff.

I do know the period and J2 for Earth, thanks to handbooks etc. But what if I decide to make a SSO around Mars? It also seems to me that a whole bunch of other Orbiter's API functions is missing from Lua.

 

[Spork42]

Even being a newbie to orbiter, I noticed LUA doesn't have access to a lot of the API. I hate to say it, but it seems like the lua interface was a sort of bandaid or an after thought. Something the the software designer threw in just to test?. I dunno, but I do know a few commercial products use a full blown lua interpreter along with access to almost all of the game *.dll functions. Right. I forgot, Orbiter isn't a game! So what!!!

Mentioning a nifty new scripting capability that doesn't fully work was a bad move IMHO. This could have waited.

 

[orb]

Please do read this thread. It's on the same topic as this one, and there is explanation why not all functions are implemented in the LUA interface.

 

[Wishbone]

Ahh, is it possible to cook up a perl script and auto-export functions to Lua? I've seen similar solutions elsewhere (mostly FORTRAN - C interfaces, TBH)