**Tutorial** - How to Make a Blackhole

Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:48 am by Dracon

heres how to make a black hole:

first add this to solararch.ini:

[Solar
nickname = Blackhole_Sphere
type = PLANET
DA_archetype = solar\blackhole\blackhole_core.3db
material_library = solar\blackhole\blackhole.txm
solar_radius = 3000
mass = 1000000000000

[Solar
nickname = Blackhole_Well
type = PLANET
DA_archetype = solar\misc\blackhole.3db
solar_radius = 100000
mass = 1000000000000

then add this to the system you want:

[Object
nickname = BlackHole1
pos = 60000, 0, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 180
ambient_color = 0, 0, 0
archetype = Blackhole_Sphere
ring = Zone_BH, solar\blackhole\bh.ini
spin = 0, 0, 0

[Object
nickname = BlackHole2
pos = 60000, 0, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 180
ambient_color = 0, 0, 0
archetype = Blackhole_Well
spin = 0, 0, 0

[zone
nickname = Zone_BH
pos = 60000, 0, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 0
shape = ring
size = 3000, 700, 200
sort = 99.500000

you can of course edit some of this stuff, like the position and rotation, and the nicknames if you want

credit goes to Nephilim for helping me with the solararch.ini configurations

***EDIT***

the balckhole well with not work with the following starsphere:

basic_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_stars_noband.cmp
complex_stars = solar\starsphere\starsphere_bw02_stars.cmp
nebulae = solar\starsphere\starsphere_bw02.cmp

this is because it has a conflict with a sprite of some sort in the starsphere, which causes the bg of the sprite not to go trasparent and merge with the rest of the starsphere (ie there is this big black square picture plastered to your starsphere)

Edited by - Chips on 10/31/2004 8:05:14 AM

Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:38 pm by Nephilim

Some minor notes.

The sphere doesn't need a material library (it's pitch black, after all). That particular .txm is in fact called by bh.ini to form the accretion disc and other effects (jets?).

Making the well spin around its vertical axis creates the illusion of a hypnotizing whirlpool, very cool.

ring = Zone_BH, solar\blackhole\bh.ini ==>> this produces a funky-looking CIRCULAR BAND of miniature accretion discs... there has to be another parameter (disc/plane?) to tie bh.ini into the big picture (and to add jets, which are currently MIA).

Thanks for the TYPE pointer by the way, I was wondering why the thing kept disappearing on me.

Sat Apr 12, 2003 6:28 pm by IGx89

Nephilim, could you post the exact changes to make a blackhole in the New York system with all those special effects you listed? Then I'll compile it into a mod script and put it into the FLMM sticky thread. This is some good eye candy

Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:02 pm by Dracon

ok, add this to solararch.ini:

[Solar
nickname = Blackhole_Sphere
type = PLANET
DA_archetype = solar\blackhole\blackhole_core.3db
material_library = solar\blackhole\blackhole.txm
solar_radius = 3000
mass = 1000000000000

and this too:

[Solar
nickname = Blackhole_Well
type = PLANET
DA_archetype = solar\misc\blackhole.3db
solar_radius = 100000
mass = 1000000000000

then add this to the system you want:

[Object
nickname = BlackHole1
pos = 60000, 0, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 0
ambient_color = 0, 0, 0
archetype = Blackhole_Sphere
ring = Zone_BH, solar\blackhole\bh.ini
spin = 0, 0, 0

and this too:

[Object
nickname = BlackHole2
pos = 60000, 0, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 0
ambient_color = 0, 0, 0
archetype = Blackhole_Well
spin = 0, 0, 0

[zone
nickname = Zone_BH
pos = 60000, 0, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 0
shape = ring
size = 3000, 700, 200
sort = 99.500000

just edit the postions and rotations of the object until you see what you like

**edit**
if you want the stuff to spin, then just change the spin= 0, 0, 0 to something like:
spin= 0, -1, 0

Edited by - Dracon on 12-04-2003 20:03:41

Sun Apr 13, 2003 12:54 am by IGx89

I can't quite get it to work; could you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
http://www.usaezhost.com/site/igx89/blackhole.zip.flmod
Thanks

Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:01 am by IGx89

I've updated it; now it works pretty well

Get it here: http://lancersreactor.com/t/forum/topic.asp?Topic_ID=10016&Forum_ID=30

Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:15 am by Wanderer

In terms of visual effects this is very impressive work.

Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:20 am by Khaos

Very nice visual effect, now if only we could add in some gravity. What's a black hole without gravity?

Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:57 am by Chris03

Are there actual blackholes in the game?

Sun May 04, 2003 11:10 am by Masta

I never saw one

Sun May 04, 2003 4:08 pm by Artic

the matter that gets absorbed by the hole will emit radation, so you can add a radation field that kills you before you get whitin 30k.

Fri May 09, 2003 12:12 am by SmokeRingHalo

This could be useful if you actually got it to rotate on the right axis.

Fri May 16, 2003 1:21 am by zimirken

which ones the actual black hole sphere and which ones the swirly disk.

Fri May 16, 2003 1:36 am by zimirken

im trying to make a black hole generator. lol

Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:01 am by vera lynn

black hole generator ?

a weapon ?

name suggestion : ashtray *giggles*

no, this one is better : Violator

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