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MOD - Creating a Planet 0.95
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 01.03.2013, 04:14 | Message # 106 |
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| Conquesti, a tutorial for creating new catalog worlds already exists in this sticky thread. Please at least check the sticky threads and use the search function before creating a new thread...
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| Darkcloak | Date: Monday, 06.05.2013, 03:06 | Message # 107 |
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| I think I've totally missed something, because I miss a LOT, but is the process for editing a planet after adding it done primarily through the editor, now, and not so much in a script?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 06.05.2013, 03:12 | Message # 108 |
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| You can do it either way, the editor just makes it easier to make changes and see what looks good, but to use it properly you should still understand how the script works.
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| Darkcloak | Date: Monday, 06.05.2013, 03:52 | Message # 109 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) You can do it either way, the editor just makes it easier to make changes and see what looks good, but to use it properly you should still understand how the script works.
Gotcha. Cool, because I have to be doing something wrong. I've created a planet around a star that I added, and no matter what I do to it, it continues to be a scorched terra with life. I mean, that's hilarious, but I wasn't really looking to create fire-breathing dragons for my life. When I look in the map, the orbit ring for the planet is red rather than green.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 06.05.2013, 04:00 | Message # 110 |
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| Quote (Darkcloak) When I look in the map, the orbit ring for the planet is red rather than green.
Red means the object is selected.
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| Darkcloak | Date: Monday, 06.05.2013, 04:04 | Message # 111 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn)
Red means the object is selected.
Oh, wow... oh dear.... I actually knew that... oh my. Yep, it must be bed time, because I just had an SE version of a "Where's the 'ANY' key?" moment. Thank you, and goodnight. I'll fix this later. 
[EDIT] Fixed: it was user error. 
Edited by Darkcloak - Monday, 06.05.2013, 19:37 |
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| Exospace | Date: Monday, 06.05.2013, 23:44 | Message # 112 |
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| I have a problem with procedural planets.
When I edit a planet, with some specific parameters, and I export it, I realize that when you export some values are changed (especially the frequencies and magnitudes of the landforms). Even knowing that the values have changed, I type in the file, and indeed the planet is not the same. I modify the values in the code of the planet, but the planet still not be the same, if you enter the editor can check that the display values are not the same as the code. if I want to restore the look of my planet, I have to enter the values in the editor and there is no way that they remain there.
I'm using version 0.97, I do not know if the problem is because it's a beta, but the fact is that there is no way to export the planets as I want.
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| Enki | Date: Friday, 12.07.2013, 19:02 | Message # 113 |
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| I was trying to make a moon for my gas giant, but no matter what I do, the surface of the planet is mostly flat with some dunes here and there. I can't get it to make mountains or canyons or anything fancy. But it's not my computer because I've gone to other planets in the galaxy that work beautifully. I figured it must be my script, but I exported a script for a moon that was full of mountains and tweaked the values of my moon just short of copying the other moon right over mine. What is my script lacking in? (I realize someone above me posted a question. Please answer him before you get to me. Thanks.)
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Moon "Minerva I" // Type of object ant it's name
{
ParentBody "Minerva" // The body, around wich this planet orbits
Class "Selena" // Class of a planet
Radius 3052.2 // Radius in km
Mass 0.02 // Mass in Earth's masses
Oblateness 0.10 // Oblataness
Albedo 0.12 // Albedo
Color (0.768, 0.898, 1.000 ) // Color of a particle
RotationPeriod 35.31 // Rotation period in hours
RotationEpoch 2451545.0 // Epoch of rotatoin elements, Julian date
Obliquity 12.3 // Obliquity of rotation axis in degrees
Surface
{
Style 0.2600855
Randomize (0.758, 0.124, 0.852)
colorDistMagn 0.08512531
colorDistFreq 641.2302
detailScale 2814.924
colorConversion true
drivenDarkening 0.5
seaLevel 0.15234
snowLevel 0.24531
tropicLatitude 0.2086042
icecapLatitude 0.5
icecapHeight 0.2027558
climatePole 1
climateTropic 0.45
climateEquator 0.625
tropicWidth 0.07
mainFreq 1.782364
venusFreq 0.8325415
venusMagn 0.3021545
mareFreq 1.7402154
mareDensity 0.1635124
terraceProb 0.4152364
erosion 0.3256421
montesMagn 0.3514242
montesFreq 554.6301
montesFraction 0.4812141
dunesMagn 0.06845245
dunesFreq 250.632
dunesFraction 0.2652265
hillsMagn 0.21321325
hillsFreq 621.3651
hillsFraction 0.42513354
hills2Fraction 0.37515345
canyonMagn 0.013522211
canyonFreq 312.5151
canyonFraction -0.75512135
cracksMagn 0.7632156
cracksFreq 4.5351351
cracksOctaves 0
craterMagn 0.72624
craterFreq 150.3256
craterDensity 0.214121
craterOctaves 9
craterRayedFactor 0.1
colorSea (1.000, 1.000, 1.000, 0.500)
colorShelf (0.950, 0.950, 0.950, 0.500)
colorBeach (0.500, 0.500, 0.500, 0.750)
colorDesert (0.850, 0.850, 0.850, 1.000)
colorLowland (0.870, 0.870, 0.870, 1.000)
colorUpland (0.930, 0.930, 0.930, 1.000)
colorRock (1.000, 1.000, 1.000, 1.000)
colorSnow (1.000, 1.000, 1.000, 1.000)
colorLowPlants (0.870, 0.870, 0.870, 1.000)
colorUpPlants (0.930, 0.930, 0.930, 1.000)
BumpHeight 12.3
BumpOffset 0.3
DiffMapAlpha "Ice"
SpecularBright 0.3
SpecularPower 150.0
DayAmbient 0.2
Lommel 0.8
Exposure 2
Life false
}
NoClouds true
NoOcean true
Atmosphere
{
Model "Jupiter"
Height 30
// Density 2.088588e+008
Pressure .0001 // in bars
Greenhouse 600 //Change temp in Kelvins
Bright 0.1 //Apply sparingly or you'll get a white globe.
Opacity 0.01 //Decrease for translucency.
SkyLight 1
}
NoAurora true
Norings true
NoCometTail true
Orbit
{
RefPlane "Ecliptic" // Orbit reference plane
Epoch 2451545.0 // Orbital parameters epoch, Julian date
Period 0.005195 // Orbital period in years - 1.896175 days
Eccentricity 0.01265 // Eccentricity
Inclination 0.51346 // Inclination in degrees
AscendingNode 39.31601 // Longitude of ascending node in degrees
SemiMajorAxis 0.002312 // Semimajor axis in astronomical units
ArgOfPericen 268.7741 // (or ArgOfPericenter) Argument of pericenter in degreesn
MeanAnomaly 348.84963 // Mean anomaly in degreess
}
}
Here's the moon I found. This one was full of mountains. I think it was at the bookmark, Gas Giant with Eight Moons on SE .97.
Code
Moon "8.1"
{
ParentBody "8"
Class "IceWorld"
Mass 0.0006840397
Radius 527.7729
InertiaMoment 0.3972176
Oblateness 0.001447644
Obliquity 5.008956e-006
EqAscendNode 143.5583
Albedo 0.3
Color (0.494 0.343 0.228)
Surface
{
Style 0.4371977
Randomize (0.393, 0.971, 0.220)
colorDistMagn 0.07797553
colorDistFreq 644.0952
detailScale 2714.924
colorConversion true
drivenDarkening 0.7
seaLevel 0.1594627
snowLevel 0.9860851
tropicLatitude 0.2086042
icecapLatitude 0.5
icecapHeight 0.2027558
climatePole 1
climateTropic 0.45
climateEquator 0.625
tropicWidth 0.07
mainFreq 2.062866
venusFreq 0.9553827
venusMagn 0.1671828
mareFreq 1.920519
mareDensity 0.136847
terraceProb 0.4552169
erosion 0
montesMagn 0.2345029
montesFreq 237.6903
montesFraction 0.3833581
dunesMagn 0.04252917
dunesFreq 7644.423
dunesFraction 0.2801901
hillsMagn 0.1181599
hillsFreq 718.9744
hillsFraction 0.3696156
hills2Fraction 0.3123793
canyonsMagn 0.004003978
canyonsFreq 162.5971
canyonFraction -0.7939088
cracksMagn 0.0658943
cracksFreq 2.982268
cracksOctaves 0
craterMagn 1.062924
craterFreq 17.84686
craterDensity 0.810425
craterOctaves 9
craterRayedFactor 0.2150079
colorSea (1.000, 1.000, 1.000, 0.500)
colorShelf (0.950, 0.950, 0.950, 0.500)
colorBeach (0.500, 0.500, 0.500, 0.750)
colorDesert (0.850, 0.850, 0.850, 1.000)
colorLowland (0.870, 0.870, 0.870, 1.000)
colorUpland (0.930, 0.930, 0.930, 1.000)
colorRock (1.000, 1.000, 1.000, 1.000)
colorSnow (1.000, 1.000, 1.000, 1.000)
colorLowPlants (0.870, 0.870, 0.870, 1.000)
colorUpPlants (0.930, 0.930, 0.930, 1.000)
BumpHeight 10.55546
BumpOffset 4
DiffMapAlpha "Ice"
SpecularBright 0.3
SpecularPower 150
DayAmbient 0.2
Lommel 0.8
Exposure 2
}
NoClouds true
NoOcean true
NoAtmosphere true
NoAurora true
Norings true
NoCometTail true
Orbit
{
SemiMajorAxis 0.0008667925
Period 0.004273557
Eccentricity 0.02114934
Inclination 0.3758218
AscendingNode 143.5583
ArgOfPericenter 260.0627
MeanAnomaly 30.17455
RefPlane "Equator"
}
}
"If you arrive at a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand
"It may be that our purpose on Earth is not to find God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
Edited by Enki - Friday, 12.07.2013, 19:03 |
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Friday, 12.07.2013, 20:52 | Message # 114 |
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| Answer for both Exospace and Enki:
There are some bugs in script export, they are fixed in the next patch. May this is the issue. Fractions of various landscape forms are calculated incorrectly. Their sum must be equal to 1.0, but negative values have no sense:
canyonFraction -0.75512135
Try use parameters of Pandora and other fictional planets, and then change them a bit.
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| Enki | Date: Saturday, 13.07.2013, 00:50 | Message # 115 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) Fractions of various landscape forms are calculated incorrectly. Their sum must be equal to 1.0, but negative values have no sense:
canyonFraction -0.75512135
Try use parameters of Pandora and other fictional planets, and then change them a bit.
You mean:
[montesfraction]+[dunesfraction]+[hillsfraction]+[hills2fraction]+[canyonfraction]=1.0?
And the reason why "canyonfraction"as negative in the SE generated script was to prevent canyons then.
But how come the SE generated one totals to 1.33 unless I don't include "hills2fraction"? What then is the difference between "hills2fraction" and just "hillsfraction"?
Thanks for your help.
"If you arrive at a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand
"It may be that our purpose on Earth is not to find God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Sunday, 14.07.2013, 00:29 | Message # 116 |
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| Quote (Enki) [montesfraction]+[dunesfraction]+[hillsfraction]+[hills2fraction]+[canyonfraction]=1.0?
Exactly.
Quote (Enki) And the reason why "canyonfraction"as negative in the SE generated script was to prevent canyons then.
No, it must be just zero. As I said, there is a bug in the exporting script function. You have to edit fractions manually in the notepad after exporting the script, to give them values equal to shown in the editor GUI.
Quote (Enki) But how come the SE generated one totals to 1.33 unless I don't include "hills2fraction"?
To disable some landscape feature, set its fraction to zero.
Quote (Enki) What then is the difference between "hills2fraction" and just "hillsfraction"?
This is a different types of landscape: hills is like sand dunes, hills2 is this:
http://imageshack.us/a/img9/6480/f45o.jpg
http://spaceengine.ucoz.ru/_fr/4/3525534.jpg
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| Enki | Date: Monday, 15.07.2013, 01:47 | Message # 117 |
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| Thanks. Added (15.07.2013, 04:47)
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I tried setting the values so they totaled 1. It got a little better, but I'd seen detailed mountains in SE before and there were none, so I went back to the moon I specified, which it turns out the bookmark said, "Ice Giant," not "Gas Giant," and for some reason the mountains were all gone! I tweaked the values so that the whole moon would be mountains and hit update. The moon was flat...
Why won't SE render mountains anymore?
"If you arrive at a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand
"It may be that our purpose on Earth is not to find God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Monday, 15.07.2013, 14:44 | Message # 118 |
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| Ice giants and gas giants have no landscape.
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| Enki | Date: Monday, 15.07.2013, 14:54 | Message # 119 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) Ice giants and gas giants have no landscape.
Oh, sorry I was talking about the name of the bookmark I went to, Ice Giant with Eight Moons. I originally said gas giant by mistake, but I was on the first moon of the icegiant at that bookmark.
EDIT: I never got my moons to have mountains, but now I have another problem. I can't get another moon to display itself. Is there a limit to far a moon can be placed for a certain sized planet? This moon is 1.8 million km from an Earth sized planet. I tested the orbital parameters in Universe Sandbox and they seemed stable, even when orbiting alongside a Luna sized moon. I show the moon temporarily and if I move it too far in any direction it disappears, even when I'm looking at the dayside.
EDIT2: Nevermind the moon that won't show up. I changed the parentbody to the barycenter and it suddenly worked.
"If you arrive at a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand
"It may be that our purpose on Earth is not to find God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
Edited by Enki - Tuesday, 16.07.2013, 18:40 |
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| TheExplorer | Date: Friday, 23.08.2013, 19:45 | Message # 120 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) Body A: SemiMajorAxis = R * MassB / (MassA + MassB)
Yaya this is great in all BUT HOW DO I DOWNLOAD IT??!!?!?!
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