Planet Animations

Post by **Trelane_of_gothos** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:13 am

this is what i really mean

Post by **MrDob** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:41 am

there is a limiit to 9 planets max

also, I am quite good with making planets :-

http://mrdobilina.deviantart.com/gallery/

have a look

http://th01.deviantart.net/fs37/300W/f/ ... bilina.jpg

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:02 pm

those do look good Dob... check ur PM box soon...

also, no worries about the Gas Giant ani's i think I have found a way to edit the Axes to fit the moon in with the giant

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:34 pm

yes problem 50% is solved, i can animate a moon and gas giant... now i have to try to get a gas giant habitable... and edit more gas giants with moons so that i can do the same with this one..

screenshots coming soon...

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:28 pm

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yessssssssss

Post by **Trelane_of_gothos** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:09 pm

absolut genius!
congratulation to your work, its really really good

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:23 pm

looks like i will need to make some new ani's for the gas giants again

btw, some gas giants will use moon animations without the moon being inhabitable.. and yes u can use more then 1 animation for planet types (small, med, large animations - similar sizes, different textures)

Post by **MrDob** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:23 pm

epic win

can't wait to play with this one...

Post by **Mentat** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:09 pm

Incredible work Tethys, would you offer a planet animation pack for use in other Mods in future?
I for once know that I would be really grateful to add those fantastic new planets to the Mods I play.

Excellent work on Andoria btw.... I can already see Jupiter with an inhabitable Titan(P) moon.

From my view there is one open question, can we add more planet animations to botf, and will those be used by the gameengine? And if they are not used in the Galaxy creation, can those at least be changed accordingly in a safegame?

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:45 pm

I am now working on a multiple mooned jupiter, it is unknown at this time if i will be able to sync 4 moons in rotation to create a 'flawless' animation, tho i will try my best and play with the values a bit...

Post by **Tethys** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:41 pm

After thoroughly hacking Celestia to make moons closer to Jupiter and editing the values to slow rotation to 1:2 (1 rotation for every 2 orbits of moons) I will begin my work on making a 4 mooned Jupiter animation... screenshots to come...

Post by **KrazeeXXL** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:40 pm

Trelane_of_gothos wrote: 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...

An interesting idea. I like it.

Tethys, the little moon which casts the shadow on the nice gas giant looks awesome. Keep up the good work

Post by **sean_west** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:46 pm

Tethys

Try THIS link
Scroll down to the catagories and the graphics are there by system.

Post by **Tethys** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:56 pm

sean, im not seeing any graphics is there a more specific link? or directions? :/

Post by **MrDob** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:20 pm

teth you need to get your butt on msn more often - cant send messages to your mobile!

this is an example of what I have so far for a borg planet example, polluted water green hue, structured surface of either fallen civilisation/borg architecture.

http://img229.localhost-textreplaced/im ... ettex2.png