Help with creating Mods and Addons

05 Oct 2019 08:55

IS there also a way to get a song to play on a type of planet/star/galaxy?

Look at the file 'context.cfg' in the folder 'data\music'.
For planets like 'Terra' or 'Desert', yes.
For star classes, or galaxy classes, I do not know.
But you can try it.

kham132 · 12 Oct 2019 16:29

Is there a way to make tidally locked clouds rotate the same way as regularly rotating planets with shaders? Or is that hard-coded into the game?

Khorrah · 18 Nov 2019 19:47

In the Tutorial of "Creating a DSO" Says "You can also create a custom 3D model for galaxy or nebula. Otherwise SpaceEngine will use one of the standard models, assigning it to your object based on its type. You can make a custom model and assign it to a specific galaxy/nebula, or tell SE to assign it procedurally to all galaxies/nebulae which have a certain type (for example, “Sa” galaxies). You can also modify the standard models."

But... Which program I have to use to make a different galaxy model? What format does support Space Engine for 3d models?

Khorrah · 18 Nov 2019 20:23

Galaxy “Vamas”
{
Type “Sb” // the Hubble type
RA 18.365 // right ascension
Dec -30.1643 // declination
Dist 1.6e21 // distance from the Sun
Radius 21000 // radius
AbsMagn -21.5 // absolute magnitude
Quat ( -0.9269889 0.2641924 0.03661448 0.2637298 ) // orientation quaternion

}

OK, Radius, but what radius it's he meaning? Light Years? Parsecs? what!? Please I need to know :c

19 Nov 2019 02:47

Which program I have to use to make a different galaxy model? What format does support Space Engine for 3d models?

GIMP, Photoshop, any graphics editor that allows you to save RGB images with Alpha channel. In the manual at the end of that section, under "Creating textures" specifies supported formats: jpg, tif, png, tga, dds.

OK, Radius, but what radius it's he meaning? Light Years? Parsecs? what!? Please I need to know :c

Same "Creating a deep space object" section, under "The galaxy/cluster/nebula script details":
Radius – radius of the object in parsecs.

Khorrah · 19 Nov 2019 03:50

Which program I have to use to make a different galaxy model? What format does support Space Engine for 3d models?
GIMP, Photoshop, any graphics editor that allows you to save RGB images with Alpha channel. In the manual at the end of that section, under "Creating textures" specifies supported formats: jpg, tif, png, tga, dds.

OK, Radius, but what radius it's he meaning? Light Years? Parsecs? what!? Please I need to know :c
Same "Creating a deep space object" section, under "The galaxy/cluster/nebula script details":
Radius – radius of the object in parsecs.

Thanks a lot, the Front Texture, the LOD 0 and the subsystem of my galaxy have to be in 3 different files?

Khorrah · 19 Nov 2019 03:54

I think I did something really bad lol, what I can do with this?

Khorrah · 19 Nov 2019 03:59

Galaxy “Vamas”
{

Type “Sb” // the Hubble type
RA 18.365 // right ascension
Dec -30.1643 // declination
Dist 16272933 // distance from the Sun
Radius 168631 // radius
AbsMagn -14.5 // absolute magnitude
Quat ( -0.9269889 0.2641924 0.03661448 0.2637298 ) // orientation quaternion

}

It's something wrong here?

The textures size it's 4000x4000 pixels, the LOD 0 128x128 as well

Khorrah · 19 Nov 2019 04:01

Or it is because I have the 0.9.8.0 Version? lol

19 Nov 2019 08:58

It's something wrong here?

You have the wrong quotes. You have '“' and '”', but you must have this sign: '"'.
(These characters are incorrect for all script examples in the manual.)

Try this script:

Galaxy "Vamas"
{
    Type    "Sb"     // the Hubble type
    RA       18.365  // right ascension
    Dec     -30.1643 // declination
    Dist     16272933 // distance from the Sun
    Radius   168631   // radius
    AbsMagn -14.5    // absolute magnitude
    Quat    ( -0.9269889 0.2641924 0.03661448 0.2637298 )  // orientation quaternion
}

Khorrah · 19 Nov 2019 16:09

It's something wrong here?
You have the wrong quotes. You have '“' and '”', but you must have this sign: '"'.
(These characters are incorrect for all script examples in the manual.)

Try this script:
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Galaxy "Vamas"
{
    Type    "Sb"     // the Hubble type
    RA       18.365  // right ascension
    Dec     -30.1643 // declination
    Dist     16272933 // distance from the Sun
    Radius   168631   // radius
    AbsMagn -14.5    // absolute magnitude
    Quat    ( -0.9269889 0.2641924 0.03661448 0.2637298 )  // orientation quaternion
}

It looks like it worked

Khorrah · 19 Nov 2019 23:21

It worked!... I want to add a custom star to it but when I add it appears very far away from the Galaxy, I want to put it on the Galaxy that I've created.

Here it is the information of the .sc file:

Star "Avalon"
{
RA 16 10 45 // right ascension
Dec -25 12 11 // declination
Dist 16272933 // distance from the Sun
Class "G5Ib" // spectral class
Lum 54240 // luminosity, or
//AbsMagn 5.31 // absolute magnitude, or
//AppMagn 10.31 // apparent magnitude
RadSol 285 // radius in Solar radii
MassSol 11.21 // mass in Solar masses
Teff 5224 // surface temperature in Kelvin
}

I want to solve 3 problems at this point:

1.- I put the same distances of the galaxy to the star in order to put it on there, but when I'm in the game, it appears that it's +26 Milky Ways of distance of it lol, How I can solve this?? (see the first Image below on the left to see the details).

2.- Taking in count that the star it's x285 Solar Radius and x11.21 in Mass, how could it have a System radius of 11.62 AU? I don't understand this lol, it's because I didn't added planets yet?

For more detailed data of the star, look at the second image below on the right.

3.- There's a problem on the star when I'm more than 0.24 light years away from it, it dissapears (see the 3rd and last image of the upper right side) and the lod finally appears when I'm +10 Ly from it and starts to make a kind off dragging to the selection arrows (See the 4th image below on the lower left side) and when I'm very too far away of the star (+5600 Light years) it fits on the center of the selection arrows (See the 5th image below on the lower right side)

Khorrah · 19 Nov 2019 23:30

Also I investigated a little bit, going to my galaxy's edge, I found a white supergiant and saw a system radius of 343.76 AU and it's luminosity it's lower than my star, 31999 L suns and it have 9 planets orbiting it. (See first image below).

On the second image you will find that it's smaller than Avalon, like 0.44 AU (93.878 Solar Radius) My question is: What I can do, and if anyone had the same issue than I, how did you solve it and how? Or some one that haves long time doing addons, please explain me what I can do.

20 Nov 2019 00:53

1.- I put the same distances of the galaxy to the star in order to put it on there, but when I'm in the game, it appears that it's +26 Milky Ways of distance of it lol, How I can solve this?? (see the first Image below on the left to see the details).

If the star is supposed to be inside your galaxy, 'RA' and 'Dec' must be about the same value as your galaxy.
You can try this script:

// Khorrah
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Star    "Avalon/Khorrah's star"
{
    RA       18 21 30.23
    Dec     -30 18 31.35
    Dist     16280626 // 16272933
    
    Class   "G5Ib"
    Lum      54240
    RadSol   285
    MassSol  11.21
    Teff     5224
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(I gave the star a second name because I already have an addon with another object called 'Avalon', and that creates conflicts.)

3.- There's a problem on the star when I'm more than 0.24 light years away from it, it dissapears (see the 3rd and last image of the upper right side) and the lod finally appears when I'm +10 Ly from it and starts to make a kind off dragging to the selection arrows (See the 4th image below on the lower left side) and when I'm very too far away of the star (+5600 Light years) it fits on the center of the selection arrows (See the 5th image below on the lower right side)

That's probably because of the inaccuracies of the positional parameters over very long distances. Sometimes the star also starts to jump when you move away from it.

2.- Taking in count that the star it's x285 Solar Radius and x11.21 in Mass, how could it have a System radius of 11.62 AU? I don't understand this lol, it's because I didn't added planets yet?

Yes. Sometimes SpaceEngine automatically creates planets, sometimes not. When SpaceEngine creates planets, the system radius is larger. But it only does that if you have not created your own planets. (SpaceEngine creates planets with my script.)

Khorrah · 20 Nov 2019 02:40

1.- I put the same distances of the galaxy to the star in order to put it on there, but when I'm in the game, it appears that it's +26 Milky Ways of distance of it lol, How I can solve this?? (see the first Image below on the left to see the details).
If the star is supposed to be inside your galaxy, 'RA' and 'Dec' must be about the same value as your galaxy.
You can try this script:
Code: Select all
// Khorrah
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Star    "Avalon/Khorrah's star"
{
    RA       18 21 30.23
    Dec     -30 18 31.35
    Dist     16280626 // 16272933
    
    Class   "G5Ib"
    Lum      54240
    RadSol   285
    MassSol  11.21
    Teff     5224
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(I gave the star a second name because I already have an addon with another object called 'Avalon', and that creates conflicts.)
scr00453.jpg

3.- There's a problem on the star when I'm more than 0.24 light years away from it, it dissapears (see the 3rd and last image of the upper right side) and the lod finally appears when I'm +10 Ly from it and starts to make a kind off dragging to the selection arrows (See the 4th image below on the lower left side) and when I'm very too far away of the star (+5600 Light years) it fits on the center of the selection arrows (See the 5th image below on the lower right side)
That's probably because of the inaccuracies of the positional parameters over very long distances. Sometimes the star also starts to jump when you move away from it.

2.- Taking in count that the star it's x285 Solar Radius and x11.21 in Mass, how could it have a System radius of 11.62 AU? I don't understand this lol, it's because I didn't added planets yet?
Yes. Sometimes SpaceEngine automatically creates planets, sometimes not. When SpaceEngine creates planets, the system radius is larger. But it only does that if you have not created your own planets. (SpaceEngine creates planets with my script.)

It just... Worked, omg tanks a lot, all was fixed with your script. ♥

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