Help with creating Mods and Addons

02 Jan 2018 03:18

I'm aware that you can export a description of an object, but is there a way to make that description part of an addon?

Of course.
If you export a planet or a moon, you just have to give it a unique name. The numbers that SpaceEngine uses for planets do not work in scripts. For example, if you have several planets with the same number, SE does not know which planets their moons belong to, if they have any.
You also need to adjust 'ParentBody', and possibly the 'SemiMajorAxis', so that the planet has an acceptable temperature.

If you are exporting a whole system, you have to create a 'StarBarycenter'.
Like this:

StarBarycenter "MySystem"
{
     RA 12 30 44.24
     Dec -71 45 22.19
     Dist 150
}

This script belongs in 'addons\catalogs\stars'
In the exported script you set 'MySystem' as 'ParentBody' for the star.
But now comes the problematic - you have to change all names and 'ParentBody' in the script!

I have here an example system that I have exported from SE 0.95 to SE 0.974 RC2. It should also work with SE 0.980.

Ddargan BC.sc: (326 Bytes) Downloaded 351 times

(Put in 'addons\catalogs\stars')

Ddargan.sc: (131.06 KiB) Downloaded 381 times

(Put in 'addons\catalogs\planets')

Gnargenox · 02 Jan 2018 04:44

Thank you sir. Now I understand scripts a little better now. That was all I needed!

02 Jan 2018 09:16

Of course

I meant the description you give to an object on the wiki.

This thing.
What you said is exactly what I've done for my custom systems all the time. Having this info area with a bit of information is what I want to include as part of the addon, but I don't know how to use the exported file

02 Jan 2018 12:57

I meant the description you give to an object on the wiki.

You could supply a text file containing the descriptions. This file must then be added by hand to the 'user-eng-db.cfg'. (Or in the corresponding file in the respective language.)

Currently I know no other solution.

02 Jan 2018 19:14

Currently I know no other solution

yeah I'll do that. I'll attach the custom description file separately and users will have to copy and paste it to their respective user-eng-db.cfg file

Spinecone · 04 Jan 2018 07:03

Speaking of elevation, is there a way to make the 3D modeling possible when you don't have cubemap textures because of the low quality? Or like, would there be a way to convert cylindrical maps into cubic ones?

aFinapple · 04 Jan 2018 19:41

I'm trying to make a star, but when I put the code into a .sc file, i cannot find my star. Am I missing something?

04 Jan 2018 19:53

Are you placing your script file under addons/catalogs/stars folder? I'm afraid can't really read the code.

aFinapple · 04 Jan 2018 20:04

Yes, and here is the code sorry

Star “Monais”
{
RA 16 10 45
Dec -25 12 11
Dist 100.0
Class “G2V”
Lum 0.84
RadSol 0.95
MassSol 0.91
Teff 5200
}

and also in regard to my other post that you helped with, I tried creating blue oceans but got light pink...
The color RGB is 0, 105, 148, and the RGBA is 0, 0.411, 0.580, 1.000, unless i did something wrong

05 Jan 2018 04:45

Yes, and here is the code sorry

You have the wrong quotes, for the name of the star and for the class.
You have “, you need " !

aFinapple · 05 Jan 2018 13:15

Is there anyway to enable procedural moon generation for say a gas giant? If so what are the parameters?

05 Jan 2018 15:10

Is there anyway to enable procedural moon generation for say a gas giant? If so what are the parameters?

No.
But if you give me the name of the planet and the mass and the radius and how many moons you want, I can possibly create a script for such moons.
(And the planet's distance from the sun in AU would also be very useful.)
The distribution of the moons will not be as good as if they had been created with SE, but maybe quite useful.

aFinapple · 05 Jan 2018 18:20

I have a slight problem... Whenever I go to my man-made planet, the water is just there. It does not have a texture, and disappears whenever I get close enough. I have my planet(s) .sc files if you want them [youtube]dHOfc29dUv4[/youtube]

YouTube · 06 Jan 2018 03:26

It does not have a texture

its normal, currently water is rendered simply as a blue-hued transparent layer with basic ripple animation

disappears whenever I get close enough

it doesn't, you're simply diving into it

aFinapple · 07 Jan 2018 10:23

Can someone check over my .sc parameters for my system for orbital errors? The orbital periods of the inner planets are longer than the farther out planets.

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