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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 13:14 | Message # 211 |
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| Quote (Darkcloak) I wasn't sure whether to post this in this thread, or in Addon Development
Addon development would have been the best place, and I'll move this there shortly.
As for the textures, I can't help you there, but you should probably wait until 0.97 comes out since it will feature vastly improved texture support for spacecraft models.
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| Darkcloak | Date: Saturday, 20.04.2013, 13:14 | Message # 212 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) Addon development would have been the best place, and I'll move this there shortly.
As for the textures, I can't help you there, but you should probably wait until 0.97 comes out since it will feature vastly improved texture support for spacecraft models.
Okay, thank you! Yeah, I'm waiting on that texture support.
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| Jabberwockxeno6109 | Date: Wednesday, 01.05.2013, 21:02 | Message # 213 |
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| So how does .97 effect the various mods the community has made? which ones are now obselete or incompatible?
I assume the ones that effected clouds is no no longer supported or needed, for example.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Wednesday, 01.05.2013, 21:04 | Message # 214 |
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| Quote (Jabberwockxeno6109) I assume the ones that effected clouds is no no longer supported or needed, for example.
The gas giants yes, the cloud shader is incompatible due to changes made to the shader. Old ship mods are also incompatible because of a new SM format, however the Mass Effect ships had OBJ files so you could always port those over to 97.
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| Jabberwockxeno6109 | Date: Wednesday, 01.05.2013, 21:09 | Message # 215 |
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| Quote (DoctorOfSpace)
The gas giants yes, the cloud shader is incompatible due to changes made to the shader. Old ship mods are also incompatible because of a new SM format, however the Mass Effect ships had OBJ files so you could always port those over to 97.
Didn't Space engine always support OBJ? or is it now that it doesn't convert the OBJs to whatever the format Space engine used?
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Wednesday, 01.05.2013, 21:14 | Message # 216 |
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| It still converts OBJ to SM but grabbing an old SM from 96 will not work you need the obj to convert it in 97. Still the same process as before.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 01:39 | Message # 217 |
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| Quote (kairunotabi) I simply want to make a sprite nebula using the method of making galaxies
You cannot, they use different methods. Look at the nebulae for examples of how to make them, not galaxies. Diffuse nebulae can only be created from textures using the cube map method which is really hard to make work.
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| kairunotabi | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 01:54 | Message # 218 |
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| So, how can I make a sprite nebula instead of the traditional nebula which looks unrealistic?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 01:59 | Message # 219 |
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| Quote (kairunotabi) So, how can I make a sprite nebula instead of the traditional nebula which looks unrealistic?
? All nebulae and galaxies in SE are already made out of sprites.
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| neutronium76 | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 13:38 | Message # 220 |
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| I started playing with cloud parameters section of earth (and venus) in catalog/planets/solarsys.sc in order to add more cloud layers. So I looked at the jupiter section and tried to do something similar for earth (but only 3 cloud layers  ) and for venus about 8-9 layers. So for earth it looks nice but a bit too much cloud covered from space. So does anybody know how to reduce the opacity / increase the transparency of a cloud layer? Is there a parameter ''opacity'' or ''transparency'' that can be used?
I tried modifying the ''exposure'' parameter under the clouds section but it appears it only affects the brightness/darkness of the cloud texture. I am suspecting the ''lomel'' and/or ''day ambient'' parameters may do the trick but I am too scared to modify them cause I started getting CTDs even by modifying the ''exposure'' parameter (at extreme values though)  . Any input is greatly appreciated 
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| kairunotabi | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 22:35 | Message # 221 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) ? All nebulae and galaxies in SE are already made out of sprites.
Yes, many sprites per nebula...will a single sprite nebula work?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 22:37 | Message # 222 |
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| Quote (kairunotabi) Yes, many sprites per nebula...will a single sprite nebula work?
No it would not, and it would look a lot worse than the current nebula system.
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| kairunotabi | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 23:41 | Message # 223 |
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| Why? I'm using a hubble nebula photos(HI-RES) as a sprite, can you explain how really nebula works in SE?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 02.05.2013, 23:50 | Message # 224 |
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| It is impossible to use a single sprite, that's why you can't do it. And a sprite is a 2D object, so even if you did use a single sprite then all you'd have is a flat texture which always faces the camera, which is very unrealistic. The 3D nebulae and galaxies in SE are made of thousands of 2D sprites arranged in 3D space to create volume and structure.
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| kairunotabi | Date: Friday, 03.05.2013, 00:51 | Message # 225 |
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| Yes, i want a 2D nebula that faces the camera, will it work?
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