Help with creating Mods and Addons

17 Jan 2019 04:29

A-L-E-X wrote:
Source of the post will it work the same way for version 0.980 and does it just need to be installed in the addon folder?

Yes.
(The .pak file only works in SE 0.980. SE 0.971 does not understand any .pak files.)

A-L-E-X · 17 Jan 2019 04:35

Ah I hope 0.990 understands them because once it is released I intend to copy my addon folder onto there!

17 Jan 2019 05:19

A-L-E-X wrote:
Source of the post Ah I hope 0.990 understands them because once it is released I intend to copy my addon folder onto there!

With such simple scripts there should be no problems. Although the planet probably looks a little different.

soldies502 · 29 Jan 2019 18:25

How does one make a galaxy addon?

29 Jan 2019 21:34

soldies502 wrote:
Source of the post How does one make a galaxy addon?

Creating a deep space object

JediTrekkie · 31 Jan 2019 17:39

Ok, I’m trying to create an Earth like planet with ten times earth’s GRAVITY. I know size and mass can determine the gravity, but ever time I set the mass to 10 and radius to 1 earth, it keeps appearing in game with just over two earth masses. What am I doing wrong?

31 Jan 2019 22:21

JediTrekkie wrote:
Source of the post Ok, I’m trying to create an Earth like planet with ten times earth’s GRAVITY.

You are not doing anything wrong. It's not working. SpaceEngine has apparently its maximum limits, what it considers possible on a Terra planet. It simply ignores the mass information, or rather adapts it to what it considers possible.

JediTrekkie · 01 Feb 2019 10:36

Aww. That’s a shame. Thanks anyway.

Duke_Countu · 09 Feb 2019 05:48

Can you set seperate deatail textures for the same ship model via color masks?

Like say I had this ship, some surfaces are metal, some are marble. Say I have a texture with several colors, green for metal, red for marble. Can I get SE to use this color map to assign seperate detail textures to the different surfaces absed on the colors?

09 Feb 2019 06:52

No, as far as I know you have to apply to your ship model different materials to different surfaces, then you'll be able to tweak the imported material library and assign different textures and detail textures for each material.

Even with the future introduction of PBR you'll have to separate surfaces to be able to have different detail textures, at least in the current state of development. That could change, though.

Duke_Countu · 09 Feb 2019 07:37

Thanks for replying. I have fortunately found a workaround.

A nother question, are any of the following possible or planned:

Reflective surfaces on ships, ie: marble or glass.

Animated Textures: blinking lights, for example.

Moving parts on ships, like spinning stuff.

09 Feb 2019 18:37

Duke_Countu wrote:
Source of the post Reflective surfaces on ships, ie: marble or glass.

You can sorta fake it a bit with clever texture work and proper config parameters

Duke_Countu wrote:
Source of the post Animated Textures: blinking lights, for example.

Moving parts on ships, like spinning stuff.

Planned for future versions, not by 0.9.9.0

Duke_Countu · 11 Feb 2019 10:23

So I'm having some trouble.

I am trying to create a ship according to this guide: http://spaceengine.org/manual/making-ad ... ng-a-ship/

I have put the OBJ and MTL files in the proper folders and created the .sss. But when I try to build it I can't find it, just something that says "unknown" which dosen't seem to build anything.

Here is my .sss:

Name “Cobra”
Class “Starship”
Pack “40K”
Faction “Imperial Navy”
Length 1500.000
Offset (0 0 0)
Quat (1 0 0 0)
Mass 2000000
Albedo 0.1
Exposure 3
Color (1 1 1)MainEngines 30
RetroEngines 0
HoverEngines 0
CorrEngines 0.5
TurnEngines 0.002
WarpBoostLog 0
Hyperdrive false
Aerodynamics false
Module “Cobra Destroyer” { “addons/40K/models/spacecraft/ImperialNavy/CobraDestroyer/CobraDestroyer.cfg” (-1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 5 15 0 1) }

Here are my file paths:

C:\SpaceEngine\addons\40K\models\spacecraft\ImperialNavy\CobraDestroyer

C:\SpaceEngine\addons\40K\textures\spacecraft\ImperialNavy\CobraDestroyer

Any ideas what I might have done wrong?

Mr. Abner · 11 Feb 2019 19:57

Duke_Countu wrote:
So I'm having some trouble.

I am trying to create a ship according to this guide: http://spaceengine.org/manual/making-ad ... ng-a-ship/

I have put the OBJ and MTL files in the proper folders and created the .sss. But when I try to build it I can't find it, just something that says "unknown" which dosen't seem to build anything.

Here is my .sss:

Name “Cobra”
Class “Starship”
Pack “40K”
Faction “Imperial Navy”
Length 1500.000
Offset (0 0 0)
Quat (1 0 0 0)
Mass 2000000
Albedo 0.1
Exposure 3
Color (1 1 1)MainEngines 30
RetroEngines 0
HoverEngines 0
CorrEngines 0.5
TurnEngines 0.002
WarpBoostLog 0
Hyperdrive false
Aerodynamics false
Module “Cobra Destroyer” { “addons/40K/models/spacecraft/ImperialNavy/CobraDestroyer/CobraDestroyer.cfg” (-1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 5 15 0 1) }

Here are my file paths:

C:\SpaceEngine\addons\40K\models\spacecraft\ImperialNavy\CobraDestroyer

C:\SpaceEngine\addons\40K\textures\spacecraft\ImperialNavy\CobraDestroyer

Any ideas what I might have done wrong?

I'm no expert with making models, but I think every .sss file I've seen has paths for its modules .cfg files starting with the same folder the "pack" is in. So in your case I would try:
Module “Cobra Destroyer” { “CobraDestroyer/CobraDestroyer.cfg” (-1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 5 15 0 1)} (Wait... that doesn't seem right...)

But also I don't see anybody using a "Pack" name/folder immediately after "addons". So if that doesn't work, I think I would try and reorganize the folder structure:

C:\SpaceEngine\addons\models\spacecraft\40k\ImperialNavy\CobraDestroyer

and

C:\SpaceEngine\addons\textures\spacecraft\40k\ImperialNavy\CobraDestroyer

And then use

Module “Cobra Destroyer” { “40k/CobraDestroyer/CobraDestroyer.cfg” (-1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 5 15 0 1)}

12 Feb 2019 01:01

Mr. Abner wrote:
Source of the post But also I don't see anybody using a "Pack" name/folder immediately after "addons".

I constantly use such folders! (However, I do not ship models.)