Help with creating Mods and Addons

PlutonianEmpire · 21 Mar 2017 19:04

It works! Thank you!

Edit: Now that I have a blank model in SE, how do I add textures? I couldnt search for help on textures because the forum complained "textures" was "too common".

23 Mar 2017 17:03

Did you texture map it in Blender?

Guys, is it possible yet to script a ship in such a way that it spawns with other ships already docked to it?

Like the stock explorer ship with a full ring of Skylones, for example?

PlutonianEmpire · 23 Mar 2017 17:10

I didn't, since I didn't realize it was required, and I don't know how to either.

23 Mar 2017 22:37

You need to do the mapping in the modelling program. If not, Space Engine won't know where to place the textures you assign to it. I suggest looking up some Blender Texture Mapping tutorials.

Once it's mapped with your desired textures, and you export to OBJ with an included MTL file, Space Engine will auto-generate an SML file when it imports the ship. Usually, you'll need to manually tweak that file to achieve your desired look (with specular, emissive, and bump/normal textures for example).

Your modelling looks excellent, btw!

PlutonianEmpire · 23 Mar 2017 22:48

Thank you! I'll definitely look up some tutorials as well.

24 Mar 2017 15:07

I'm sorry I need your help can you tell me how to "remove" some planet because my trappist-1 look like funny with 2 b, 2 c, and 2 d.

25 Mar 2017 05:20

Roswell,
You can put this at the beginning of your planet script:

Remove  "TRAPPIST-1 b" {ParentBody "TRAPPIST-1"}
Remove  "TRAPPIST-1 c" {ParentBody "TRAPPIST-1"}
Remove  "TRAPPIST-1 d" {ParentBody "TRAPPIST-1"}

Insanity · 25 Mar 2017 10:51

For whatever reason, my star won't show up in the search, any tips? (Also, if you want to look at the file, I attached it.)

25 Mar 2017 11:21

I had this problem too. Try making a barycenter first and then adding the star to that barycenter. Here, use this fixed version as a model for your future stars. It should work now:

Silencia.sc: (859 Bytes) Downloaded 279 times

(I also changed the quotation marks to the normal ones)

Insanity · 25 Mar 2017 11:42

Thanks.

25 Mar 2017 21:18

Does anyone know how to script the ship file so that a spacecraft spawns with other ships pre-docked to it?

I'd like to use it for stuff like Enterprise-D Saucer Separation, Falcon 9/any-rocket staging, or even just setting up scenes.

QCzar · 26 Mar 2017 15:38

I have a question regarding placing objects on surfaces without them floating off into infinity. Most of my own experiments with this using the autopilot controls, ship editor and spacecraft.cfg have merely resulted in a growing collection of objects floating near the parent bodies (or out at the edge of the universe, with hilarious side effects). Searches here and on the web have turned up nothing (it's possible I got the terminology wrong).

Examples of things I've already tried:

Playing with the various orbit types in the spaceship controls in-game - (No Beans!)
Messing around with the ship editor - (No Dice!)
Tinkering with the Orientation and Velocities in the spacecraft config - (Nope!)
Taking shots in the dark with the Orbit in the config - (Ooh, look, an orbital rover!)

To the experienced modders here, most of those were probably laughably pointless, but I wanted to experiment on my own before dragging you folks into it.

I'm at a loss and am also a rank amateur. Is it possible to bind a spacecraft to a planetary body (or even a star) in such a way as it does not change its location and/or orientation to the parent object or drift in any way? I would greatly appreciate any answers on this subject (definitive or conjectural), even if the answer is it simply cannot currently be done. I'm also perfectly willing to look like an idiot if the answer is an obvious one.

Thank you.

27 Mar 2017 14:45

I tried to create the new planets called Iceqias but the orbite destroy my creation. I HATE IT. I want to remove all that ridiculous bug

Quarior · 27 Mar 2017 16:26

I tried to create the new planets called Iceqias but the orbite destroy my creation. I HATE IT. I want to remove all that ridiculous bug

I find the problem, Eccentricity is superior or equal than 1 so decrease the value.

If the problem is the Class for the planet, decrease the value of Mass inferior I think of ~15 Earth's mass (I no in my computer for checked) or/and decrease the value of Radius inferior I think of ~20000 km.

27 Mar 2017 17:52

I tried to create the new planets called Iceqias but the orbite destroy my creation. I HATE IT. I want to remove all that ridiculous bug

There is no bug -- the orbits are doing exactly what you are telling them to do. Eccentricity is how elliptical the orbit is. An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, between 0 and 1 is an ellipse, 1 is a parabola (the object is going exactly fast enough to escape from the star), and greater than 1 is a hyperbola, which looks more and more like a straight line as the number gets higher.
Set eccentricity to something between 0 and 0.2 for a more typical planetary orbit.

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