blech kusari plantnets, reminds me of a bag of sweets. Btw to many plantes and to close the gehter and were are the dust clouds?

im not even close to finished yet, btw, some of the planets are HUGE, and look alot closer than they are (some are like 100k away)

It's a really nice attempt. Absolutely fantastic! The real problem, though, is with the game. Game scale, whatever it may be, just isn't designed for Sol type systems. Let's face it, you can DRIVE 100km in less than an hour. And all of the stock planets have radii of around 15000km, so sayeth the info. Yet if that were true, at 100km away they'd fill the entire view. I can't think of one reason for the scale to be as it is, but it is. The end result is that if you're going to put large planets into such a small box, it's going to look cramped. In all honesty, that's a fact I'm willing to live with. Bring on the crampedness!

As for dust clouds...they don't need to be there. In a model of the solar system, we'd have ice clouds out past Neptune, and that'd be about it. A ring of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, of course, but we don't live in a particularly dusty system. Dust and gas are highly concentrated near proto-stars and in nebulae. Most stars live in a near vacuum.

sorry cant help it, I just like bretonia to much.

DATA/UNIVERSE/universe.ini
[system
NavMapScale = 0.5

You can make the system as large as you want!

I like the idea of having really sparse systems - it would certainly be more realistic. Maybe some dust clouds in L4 and L5, but typically there aren't locallized pockets of dust in space. Everything in space is either orbitting something, hugging a lagrange point, or on its way elsewhere fast.

I'm also thinking about ditching the sun-in-the-centre rule. It's not like the planets actually orbit in the game anyways, they just have to be positioned to seem like they do.

thundercleese,

THANKS! i was wonderin how to make the system bigger! now i can put pluto and charon(i think thats the name of plutos moon) like 300k away! w00t

btw, pluto is one of those tiny dots in the third screenshot

How far out does this sucker go? Are we going to see any TNOs or Kepler objects? Oort clouds?
I think it would be great if you included the Galilean moons, and Titan! If Charon gets a place, Titan should, too! Maybe the Titan could be for sale there...

Hrmm, looking at the screens, the Sun seems awfully blue. The Sun's a G2 dwarf, yellow in colour.

Edited by - Ut on 08-04-2003 02:13:26

i just edited it, it goes out about 570k, the first 3 pics are old now, no more planar alignments, (as far as i know of, i havent been 500k out yet lol) maybe dissapointing, but more realistic, and not as cramped.

mercury: 18k out
venus: 35k out
earth: 55k out
mars: 80k out
jupiter: 160k out
saturn: 245k out
uranus (plz no jokes) : 335k out
neptune: 430k out
pluto: 530k out

the planets are all at random angles now, instead of the easy, non-professional, 90 and 45 degree angles ppl put their stuff at (i have 75, 20, 15, 60, and 45 degree angles, to name a few)
btw, those are refenence angles, so some of u done get confused and think all the planets are in the same quadrant