Help with creating Mods and Addons

08 Jul 2017 02:17

I need help placing a star within the Andromeda galaxy.

You can use these coordinates.

// Name: Seren.sc
// JackDole 2017.07.08 08:53:15

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Star "Seren"
{
    RA      00 45 50.55
    Dec     41 33 53.66
    Dist    796510.0
    
    Class       "G2"
    RadSol      1
    MassSol     1
}

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This places the star there:

skywalker66 · 08 Jul 2017 14:57

I have created a new additional exoplanet for HD 10180 system that had 6 exoplanets previously. I imported a desert planet from one of closeby solar neighborhood and changed its parameters, then added a comet tail and wrote a script for "HD 10180 b." I had tried tune - fining the orbital parameters such as SemiMajorAxis, Period, Eccentricity, EquAscendNode, RefPlane and ArgOfPericenter in order to align new planet with that of other 6 planets in the HD 10180 system. I changed Inclination either by 90 or 180 degrees, but planet's orbital tilt is still very steep to the HD 10180 ecliptic plane. Also, typewriting "Radial velocity" in DiscMethod does not help since the SE has automatically change it to "Other." Only the original HD 10180 system script itself converts all other six planets as "Radial velocity" which I suspect it has own trick that noboby was able to copy or discern. Also HD 10180 star is 7.3 Ga and has a radius of 1.20 Solar Diameter according to the online article on Wikipedia.

[img]C://SpaceEngine0.980/screenshots/scr00017[/img]

HD 10180 b.sc: (4.3 KiB) Downloaded 215 times

Pretty picture of two exoplanets b and c orbiting close

HD 10180 b.sc: (4.3 KiB) Downloaded 215 times

The trouble is, new exoplanet's orbit is very steep and not correctly oriented to orbits of other six exoplanets.

I have included my "HD 10180 c" script file for your examination and correct me if I am wrong somewhere in programming it.

HD 10180 b.sc: (4.3 KiB) Downloaded 215 times

skywalker66 · 08 Jul 2017 15:05

HD 10180 (or HIP 7599) system script has its own original file from SE 0.980 here:

HIP 7599.sc: (20.28 KiB) Downloaded 254 times

08 Jul 2017 18:00

I have created a new additional exoplanet for HD 10180 system that had 6 exoplanets previously. ...

The parameter for 'DiscMethod' is 'RadVel', not 'Radial velocity'. (Pay attention to the uppercase 'V'.)

And for 'Orbit' try this:

    Orbit
    {
        Epoch           2454001.445
        //RefPlane        "ExtaSolar"
        SemiMajorAxis   0.02233
        Period          0.0032265
        Eccentricity    0.0054351
        //Inclination          180
        Inclination     90
        AscendingNode    3.36501
        ArgOfPericenter 328
        MeanAnomaly     -328
    }

Olegson · 10 Jul 2017 10:29

Hello,
I'm new to modding in Space Engine,
whenever I load my model into SE, the mesh doesn't load. The console keeps saying:

"seMesh::LoadOBJ(): Error opening the file "addons/files.pak/models/spacecraft/Ship1.obj"

I'm using Blender 2.74, the mesh is joined and I've checked "triangulate faces". Any things I could try out in Blender?

Thanks

10 Jul 2017 10:41

Work with your files under a folder until your model is finished, not by putting directly all into a .pak file. SE can't write directly into the compressed file, so it can't create .sm and other related files into it.

Olegson · 10 Jul 2017 10:47

Thank you! I guess I didn't thought logical about that problem...my bad.

Olegson · 10 Jul 2017 14:12

...and there comes the next problem: The console claims that the .sml-file is already existing and lists all existing materials. I tried everything I can think of, what now?

10 Jul 2017 14:51

I'm going to work in a stellar catalogue but I need some feedback from you guys.

1.- If my catalogue has a star that exists now in SE what would happen? Can I prioritize the stars in the default catalogue over mines each time this happens? or do I have to discover each coincidence and erase it from my catalogue?

2.- If I create a catalogue, for example of the stellar neighbourhood of the sun, and that catalogue is quite complete in the sense that SE shouldn't generate many procedurall systems inside the reaches of the volume that I have included, would it do it correctly? I mean; SE generates a stellar population based on the stellar density of different regions of the galaxy right? so if I includo several catalogue stars in a region it shouldn't make many procedurall ones there to avoir overcrowding. Am I correct?

3.- Would a 120 MB stellar catalogue load properly in SE (in cvs format)?

4.- I want to create an addon with the TGAS results (2 million stars due to a combination of GAIA and Tycho catalogues). Has anyone attempted it before? I don't want to lose time, if someone did it before I would be glad to know.

Jackdaw · 10 Jul 2017 23:26

Is it possible to change the original point of creating stars and galaxies?
I mean, say I want to put New Eden of Eve online into SpaceEngine, but New Eden has over 5000 star systems, and I only know their relative positions. For example, if I fix Luminaire, and fix the x, y and z axis, then I can get all other systems in position.
Then is it possible to change the original point to somewhere else, so that I don't have to calculate the coordinates of these systems relative to our Sun?

skywalker66 · 13 Jul 2017 16:44

I have noticed that a giant daytime cyclone for a new exoplanet HD 10180 b I had made for HIP 7599 (or HD 10180) was somewhat off the center of planet's dayside by more than 120 degrees into the nightside. How do I make the cyclone to center on the daytime, if anyone know of right method to do it? Thanks in advantage

13 Jul 2017 17:32

Is it possible to change the original point of creating stars and galaxies?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

Cantra · 14 Jul 2017 21:27

I need help with a barycenter once again. Where Venus is in the place of the Moon.

15 Jul 2017 08:34

I need help with a barycenter once again. Where Venus is in the place of the Moon.

In an Earth-Venus system, the Earth is also tidally locked. In addition, the year is minimally shorter.

Earth-Venus.sc: (2.78 KiB) Downloaded 230 times

Cantra · 15 Jul 2017 10:33

I need help with a barycenter once again. Where Venus is in the place of the Moon.
In an Earth-Venus system, the Earth is also tidally locked. In addition, the year is minimally shorter.
scr00061.png
Earth-Venus.sc

Thank you.

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