Help with creating Mods and Addons

TOAA · 14 Apr 2017 07:47

'll ask again because no one heard me the first time. Could someone tell me how kludd went about making the grandcanyon mod i wish to do the same. As in Bascially stich together pieces of high def part ontop of the ultra officila addon. pls help

longname · 18 Apr 2017 14:33

Attempting a Quasar and a Supermassive black hole replacement, Can't get it to work.

Quarior · 05 May 2017 09:06

longname,it is difficult to make a replacement because you need to create in catalogs/stars a file sc with the coordinate of the system's barycenter and isn't precise for place the system pile on the same place.
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Otherwise, somebody can help me for update the Disc World (made by JackDole and me) ? It is for add the turtle, elephants and complete the map with texture if possible.
Here my zip for the work :

Discworld.zip: Copy the folder Discworld in the zip to addons folder; (2.77 MiB) Downloaded 242 times

A screenshot :

: Yes isn't not terrible

And a picture if it can help :

Discworld in wiki.lspace.org
Discworld in Wikipedia

I thank in advance !

TheRedstoneHive · 11 May 2017 15:19

How do I make a nebula?

YouTube · 11 May 2017 15:39

How do I make a nebula?

http://spaceengine.org/manual/making-ad ... ing-a-dso/

Betelgeuze · 13 May 2017 06:52

I need help with distance for my custom system. My Ella system would on between Rigel and Orion nebula

StarBarycenter    "Ella"
{
    Class   "B4.2 IV"
    RA       5.5755287
    Dec      22.0144709
    Dist     1356
}

Like this example. Ella system would be seen from Earth

13 May 2017 08:22

My Ella system would on between Rigel and Orion nebula

Something like this here?

StarBarycenter    "Ella"
{
    Class   "B4.2 IV"
    RA       5 24 33.27
    Dec      -6 58 00.22 
    Dist     135.6      //1356
}

If the star is supposed to be more visible, you have to reduce the distance further.

Betelgeuze · 13 May 2017 08:43

My Ella system would on between Rigel and Orion nebula
Something like this here?
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StarBarycenter    "Ella"
{
    Class   "B4.2 IV"
    RA       5 24 33.27
    Dec      -6 58 00.22 
    Dist     135.6      //1356
}
scr00009.png
If the star is supposed to be more visible, you have to reduce the distance further.

Yes Thank you!. It look fine to me!

Sorry mess with procedural stars because I used my custom private Milky Way model on the screenshot

NathanKerbonaut · 20 May 2017 08:51

Quick question, does SE support translucent ship textures?

20 May 2017 15:41

If you mean semitransparent, not yet. Colours for textures can have an assigned transparency (alpha) value in a range from 0 to 1, but the rendering will be completely opaque for alpha >= 0.5, completely transparent for alpha < 0.5

PlutonianEmpire · 21 May 2017 02:05

While playing around with Rodrigo's new release, I did notice that his new montes were combined with the olden "jordanTurbulence" hills, and I applied them to the Klud montes, and noticed the following difference (it helps to view in seperate tabs or windows):

Some regions of the montes were higher, but not others. I thought this was pretty cool, so I sought to add it to the "eroded" hills in my TPE terrain mod to help reduce homogeneity for huge regions of these hills, however the following code in my mod resulted in a loading error:

    else if (biome < hills2Fraction)
    {
        // "Eroded" hills
        noiseOctaves = 10.0;
        noiseH       = 1.0;
        noiseOffset  = 1.0;
        height =  (0.5 + 0.6 * iqTurbulence(point * 0.5 * montesFreq + Randomize, 0.55)) *(biomeScale * hillsMagn * (0.05 - (0.4 * RidgedMultifractal(point * hillsFreq + Randomize, 2.0)) + 0.3 * RidgedMultifractalErodedDetail(point * montesFreq + Randomize, 2.0, 1.1 * erosion, biomeScale)))+ 0.4 * biomeScale * hillsMagn * JordanTurbulence(point * hillsFreq/4 + Randomize, 0.8, 0.5, 0.6, 0.35, 1.0, 0.8, 1.0);;
    }

How can I make my idea work for the "eroded" hills?

21 May 2017 02:36

How can I make my idea work for the "eroded" hills?

Can you include the 'else if' or 'else' code section before and after your changed code?

PlutonianEmpire · 21 May 2017 03:07

The ones before, and after, respectively:

Before:

else if (biome < hillsFraction)
    {
        // Mountains
        noiseOctaves = 10.0;
        noiseH       = 1.0;
        noiseLacunarity = 2.0;
        noiseOffset  = montesSpiky * 1.2;
        height = hillsMagn * 7.5 * ((1.25 + iqTurbulence(point * 0.5 * (hillsFreq / 2) * inv2montesSpiky * 1.25 + Randomize, 0.55)) * (0.05 * RidgedMultifractalDetail(point * 1.0 * (hillsFreq / 2) * inv2montesSpiky * 1.5 + Randomize, 1.0, montBiomeScale)));

        // noiseOffset  = montesSpiky;
        // height = hillsMagn * montRage * RidgedMultifractalErodedDetail(point * hillsFreq * inv2montesSpiky + Randomize, 2.0, erosion, montBiomeScale);
       
        if (terrace > terraceProb)
        {
            float h = height * terraceLayers;
            height = (floor(h) + smoothstep(0.0, 1.0, fract(h))) / terraceLayers;
            height *= 0.75; // terracing made slopes too steep; reduce overall mountains height to reduce this effect
        }
    }

After:

else if (biome < canyonsFraction)
    {
        // Canyons


noiseOctaves = 5.0;
        noiseH       = 0.9;
        noiseLacunarity  = 4;
        noiseOffset  = montesSpiky;

        height = -0.6*canyonsMagn * montRage * RidgedMultifractalErodedDetail(point * 1.2 * canyonsFreq * inv2montesSpiky + Randomize, 2.0, erosion, montBiomeScale);
  
            float h = height * terraceLayers;
            height = (floor(h) + smoothstep(0.5, 0.6, fract(h))) / terraceLayers;


    }

Is it dependent on these two somehow?

21 May 2017 03:23

Is it dependent on these two somehow?

I do not know.
Which SE version do you use?
Can you post the whole file?

PlutonianEmpire · 21 May 2017 03:44

I'm using 0.980.

While I now can't seem to replicate this problem, the shader will load, but a new problem is no changes are seen in game. Right now, I'm jumping between experimenting with the canyons (no problems there), and troubleshooting this issue.

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