pt. 2

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SYSTEM EDITING<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Random Wormholes
Jump-Holes
Destructible stations in MP!
Orbiting Planets
Appearance of fields on nav maps (property flags)
Creating dynamic asteroid fields
Creating Wrecks AND Setting their loots
How to Make a Blackhole
Nomad encounters. A serverside mod.
System Building from scratch.
Creating a new system (good reference for non FLE)
Creating your own Nebula

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SPECIAL FX<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
ALE Cloning
ALE color tweaking
EVERYTHING about Audio in Freelancer
Advanced explosions
Fuses
Advanced fuses

>>>>>>>>>>>>>SINGLEPLAYER<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Making Story Missions (very nice documentation of SP scripting, well worth a look if you're interested in making a new mission)

*added some tutes from an even older tutorial comp*


Edited by - Cold_Void on 7/19/2007 5:10:21 PM

*bump* - no updates atm

I found a way to FIX a black hole with the well in a system. Based roughly on the blackhole mod, I made a few changes and was able to install a beauty below the neutron star in the Omega 41 system without the use of scripting which left me with piles and piles of duplicate entries in the solararch.ini that eventually caused me to end up with a Crash to Desktop.
I removed any previous reference to the black hole in the solararch.ini and then did the following.

THIS IS THE SOLUTION!

IN SOLARARCH.INI ADD THIS as it is typed. Be sure to enclose "Solar" , "Object" and "zone" within brackets.

Solar
nickname = Blackhole_Sphere
ids_name = 60203
ids_info = 60204
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


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IN EW03 SYSTEM.INI ADD THIS (or your favorite system)
What I did here was orient the well straight down below the neutron star with the black hole itself at -50000. In the center of this black hole, I placed a jump hole to a new system.


Object
nickname = BlackHole_1
ids_name = 60203
pos = 0, -50000, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 0
ambient_color = 0, 0, 0
archetype = Blackhole_Sphere
ring = Zone_BH, solar\blackhole\bh.ini
spin = 0.5, 0, 0

Object
nickname = BlackHole_Well_1
pos = 0, -17000, 0
rotate = 90, 0, 90
ambient_color = 0, 0, 0
archetype = Blackhole_Well
spin = 0.5, 0, 0

zone
nickname = Zone_BH
pos = 0, -50000, 0
rotate = 0, 0, 0
shape = ring
size = 3000, 700, 200
sort = 99.500000


At present I am working on a 2 sided "Flute" for the well so it will show up in all it's glory at any angle.

Edited by - Rankor on 5/3/2007 2:18:17 PM

I know this post is a bit old but I wanted to provide an elegant solution to the double sided cone problem. It is as simple as adding the word 'Two' to your texture's 'Type' entry.

DcDt would be DcDtTwo
DcDtOc would be DcDtOcTwo

I did that in my MOD well over a year ago, it works & looks great!

The texture "Type" entry in the MISC\blackhole.3db is "Nebula" and not DcDt...

Changing it to anything else seems to remove transparency, the edge of the blackhole disc becomes a solid dull grey outline where it should be transparent at edge of the "gas clouds" at the rim.

I haven't tried adding "Two" to it?

Any info on "Nebula" anyone?

may i point out that adding the "Two" to the entry LS also means its going to be rendering double what its normally rendering, using this on custom planets (using cmp files... pleh use sph ) itll cause a crash(high poly count on screen) (at least in my experiences )

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I say!! Jolly Good Show!!

Adding "Two" to "Nebula" so it becomes "NebulaTwo" works on the blackhole well!

And it keeps its transparency too!

Rather Sooper, what?

Umm... yes, I would advise to NOT use it on big stuff.

Roleplay: - the art of self-deceipt!

You are correct, there is a 'NebulaTwo' in the alchemy.dll. There are alot of different settings just like that.

The black hole should look really good now.

im so bored right now im actually going to take time in opening up utf and doing this...... -_- lmao

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