Planet Animations

Post by **MrDob** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:31 pm

oooo shiny borgified planets?

Post by **Trelane_of_gothos** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:38 pm

of corse this would be interesting
because borg planets have a deadly atmosphere...

what about water-, demon- and destroyed planets (like rura penthe^^)

is it possible to create moons?

Post by **MrDob** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:40 pm

moons would probably have to come under the guise of another planet
so as long as there are <9 planets it could happen, just make it look like a small planet.

Post by **Trelane_of_gothos** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:54 pm

maybe it would make the game more real?

f.e.:
you can only have dilithium-mine and a prison with a moon
or you are able to have special science buildings...or so

Post by **Tethys** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:59 pm

to address your questions:

there is no option to add moons to my knowledge, i want to add moons to gas giants to make them somewhat habitable as well... only time will tell if the codemasters can find some code buried that would allow moons...

water, demon, and destroyed planets will be there, trust me... i plan on releasing at least 3 subclasses of each class of planet, since we all know that no planets are identical (within reason, this is BotF here and there is limited space)

you will have to wait til i release a beta of Galaxies Mod to see the Dominion and Borg systems just so i can keep u waiting

Post by **eber3** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:55 pm

Tethys wrote:to address your questions:

there is no option to add moons to my knowledge, i want to add moons to gas giants to make them somewhat habitable as well... only time will tell if the codemasters can find some code buried that would allow moons...

I'm not a modder, but couldn't you simply use a planet image that has a moon with it? Then make that image of the gas giant with moon correspond to a small planet of what ever type you want the moon to be?

Post by **DOT** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:30 am

If you can add moons to gas giants graphic files then you can alter pop of some gas giants (e.g. big gas giants with high pop bonus) from 0 to some pleasant value and link the graphic file to those gas giants.

Post by **sean_west** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:22 am

Tethys

how about a star similar to this one.

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:35 am

sean_west
if you can link me to more images i would love to use some of those in the game... that would be considered a red giant or an orange sun? my eyes arent all that great... looks a bit light to be a red giant, but too dark to be yellow... so my guess is orange..

and i suppose i could use gas giants with moon animations, the only problem with that is getting far enough away from the giant to also include the moon in the animation, while still attaining a higher quality, which is pretty hard to do since the moons orbit rather far away from the giants (that ive seen in Celestia anyways). also, you will not see the moon if it is too far away (such as when it passes behind the giant)

nonetheless, i will see what i can come up for u guys

Post by **MrDob** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:59 am

eber3 wrote:
Tethys wrote:to address your questions:

there is no option to add moons to my knowledge, i want to add moons to gas giants to make them somewhat habitable as well... only time will tell if the codemasters can find some code buried that would allow moons...
I'm not a modder, but couldn't you simply use a planet image that has a moon with it? Then make that image of the gas giant with moon correspond to a small planet of what ever type you want the moon to be?

that sounds like a good idea, effectively smoke and mirrors (like most of the game industry is) you work around the problem by representing something that is wanted by overlaying something else.

Tethys this is a very plausible idea, change the gas giant pic to one with a moon, call it a small planet and have (moons) written underneath or something. Then have the gas giant classed as a dwarf planet of some kind... that should work

Post by **Trelane_of_gothos** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:03 am

like this?

: Jupiter+Io2-OhneBahnen.jpg (110.69 KiB) Viewed 5638 times

Post by **MrDob** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:40 am

yeah or have a few small ones - or even have them circling the gas giant, depending on how many there are around the gas giant defines how "big" the planet is effectivly

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:45 am

i will see what I can do guys

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:54 am

I just realized that without being locked on the Gas Giant this is impossible... i will try to zoom out enough to capture a close moon...

Post by **Trelane_of_gothos** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:04 am

or you have a big gas gigant at the bottom of the view and the moon above it..

: 39214_gruener-planet-mit-mond.jpg (48.84 KiB) Viewed 5637 times

this is another picture i've found with google

think this could also work...
but better is to have the gas giant below the moon

p.s.: an other interesting idea, tht i was playing with, was to have a planet like remus...only one side is on the sun-side...

btw: is there a limit for planets or is it possible to have (f.e.) 2 different *.ani's for the m-klass planet?