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How to Make City Lights (kinda)
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| kham132 | Date: Thursday, 21.04.2016, 01:38 | Message # 16 |
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| PlutonianEmpire, It isnt your graphics card. Set "lavaCoverTidal" to 0.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 21.04.2016, 04:22 | Message # 17 |
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| Here is a bit of what I have figured out
If you set this number lower you will have more city lights and higher will reduce it
If you increase these you will increase lights. However temperature can only go so high before it's effects become negligible.
Code volcanoFlows 1.275
volcanoTemp 999999
GlowBright 2.42
Different combinations of all of these can be used to achieve the same results.
If you edit these you will end up with solid glow across the surface.
Code lavaCoverTidal 0
lavaCoverSun 0
lavaCoverYoung 0
Here is another one that can control the amount of the surface being covered. I recommend going up and down by decimal places as that is the best way to control it.
Examples
volcanoActivity 0.5
volcanoActivity 1
volcanoActivity 1.5
Here is an example from playing around with the above variables. For this one I turned up VolcanoFreq and increased volcanoActivity. What this does is it decreases how dense cities are but increases the overall coverage. This allows you to get a more noisy pattern like this
Code volcanoMagn 0.257
// Procedural "City"
volcanoFreq 10000
volcanoDensity 1
volcanoOctaves 2
volcanoActivity 1.5
volcanoFlows 1.275
volcanoRadius 7.5
volcanoTemp 999999
GlowMode "Night"
GlowColor (0.45 0.97 0.05)
GlowBright 0.742
lavaCoverTidal 0
lavaCoverSun 0
lavaCoverYoung 0
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| PlutonianEmpire | Date: Thursday, 21.04.2016, 05:28 | Message # 18 |
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| DoctorOfSpace, that is very cool, thank you for the descriptions!
kham132, it worked! Thank you! Also, that actually gave me an idea. Would it be possible to tweak the lavaCover___ parameters to give an impression of population clustering near coastal regions?
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 21.04.2016, 05:39 | Message # 19 |
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| Quote PlutonianEmpire (  ) Would it be possible to tweak the lavaCover___ parameters to give an impression of population clustering near coastal regions?
It is possible to increase clusters that look like large cities but I haven't found a way to guarantee their generation on coasts. As far as I can tell it seems to be purely luck, but there could be a parameter somewhere that affects that.
Planets with deep oceans benefit more as the oceans hide much of the lights. The biggest issues are planets with no ocean and large amounts of cities causing the striping pattern.
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| JackDole | Date: Thursday, 21.04.2016, 12:23 | Message # 20 |
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| Destructor1701,
Quote Destructor1701 ( ) An'Cheadhain
Is that from the Irish language? It looks very like it.
A little. It is derived from 'An chéad Domhain', the 'First World' or 'The first Earth'.
I make the names of my planets usually always so. Sometimes I change the name a little, but not always. I prefer Irish sounding names because I like the Irish mythology, but I also use names or terms from other languages.
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Edited by JackDole - Thursday, 21.04.2016, 12:31 |
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| Salvo | Date: Thursday, 21.04.2016, 12:37 | Message # 21 |
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| I don't really like how it looks like DoctorOfSpace, it's too much "stripy"... It kind of look like a glitch more than a wanted thing 
I wonder if that's another way to achieve the same effect!
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Edited by Salvo - Thursday, 21.04.2016, 12:43 |
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 21.04.2016, 12:46 | Message # 22 |
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| Quote Salvo ( ) it's too much "stripy"... It kind of look like a glitch more than a wanted thing
Thats one of the issues I mentioned in my post regarding striping.
Quote Salvo ( ) I wonder if that's another way to achieve the same effect
Highly unlikely but you can reduce the effect by tweaking the variables and get somewhat decent results
But it seems no matter what you do you get some degree of striping
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| kham132 | Date: Wednesday, 15.06.2016, 01:17 | Message # 23 |
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| ZOMBIE FORUM.
Okay so, I've done some experimenting with the parameters that can mimic city lights like on Earth.
Using this code, I think I got a good grasp of what I'm trying to accomplish.
Code GlowMode "Night" //DO NOT CHANGE
GlowColor (0.60, 0.40, 1.00, 1.00) //changes color of lights
GlowBright 3 //changes brightness of lights
volcanoMagn 0.25
volcanoFreq 50
volcanoDensity 1
volcanoOctaves 10
volcanoActivity 0.75
volcanoFlows 0.15
volcanoRadius 2.5
volcanoTemp 400e+10
I wil be working on this a lot more, now.
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| Ostarisk | Date: Wednesday, 15.06.2016, 01:38 | Message # 24 |
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| Glitches.... 
(In ver 0.9.7.2)
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| kham132 | Date: Wednesday, 15.06.2016, 02:38 | Message # 25 |
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| Did you set the 'lavacover' tags to 0?
Code lavaCoverTidal 0
lavaCoverSun 0
lavaCoverYoung 0
If you did, make sure you didn't edit these parameters;
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Edited by kham132 - Wednesday, 15.06.2016, 02:40 |
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| Ostarisk | Date: Wednesday, 15.06.2016, 02:53 | Message # 26 |
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| kham132, that fixed it, I think...
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| kham132 | Date: Tuesday, 21.06.2016, 02:34 | Message # 27 |
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| Tried this in RC3, safe to say it looks strange.
It works fine, but it looks best in RC2.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Tuesday, 21.06.2016, 02:55 | Message # 28 |
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| It is most definitely broke in RC3, I had to roll back all my systems.
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| kham132 | Date: Tuesday, 21.06.2016, 06:16 | Message # 29 |
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| I had to, too. i'll try to make these new volcanoes work unless its being "fixed". Probably won't be because this started off as a hack/weird bug in the first place 
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Edited by kham132 - Tuesday, 21.06.2016, 06:16 |
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| butterarmyxjrblx | Date: Friday, 24.06.2016, 12:15 | Message # 30 |
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| Does this work with the In game Editor?
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