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Drew’s description of Larais in Mutabilis includes regular electric storms (see the OXP).

Is this reproducible in Oolite for either landing there - or contrariwise - generally whizzing around in space?

Bump!

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:09 pm

(see the OXP)

Which OXP is that?

In any event, this would be a job for shaders, something with which I've had enormous experience and can turn one around in a day or so!

-Ahem-

Conceptually, would these electrical storms be on the planet surface, or as some form of space-based phenomenon (gaseous clouds, that sort of thing)?

phkb wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:07 pm

Conceptually, would these electrical storms be on the planet surface, or as some form of space-based phenomenon (gaseous clouds, that sort of thing)?

Don't ever offer him options. You know he's just going to reply, "Both."

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:33 pm

Don't ever offer him options. You know he's just going to reply, "Both."

Yeah...

OK, lets just go with the plant-side ones then.

phkb wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:02 pm

Which OXP is that?

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Ship_ ... -Mutabilis

phkb wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:17 pm

OK, lets just go with the plant-side ones then.

But what about Industrials?

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:33 pm

Don't ever offer him options. You know he's just going to reply, "Both."

I'll rat on you to cousin Digby!

And!

Could we produce a burning planet?




Would it not fit magnificently into WB's Dynooverse? A real event to justify mucking up the F7 planet descriptions!

Ahem! Wilde the Beast's visit to Vetitice has sparked off rioting, mayhem and the wholesale destruction of bus-shelters. Even those adorned with parking meters! Not to mention the reckless sabotaging of electricity pylons. Attempts by the thought police proving unavailing, vast areas of the countryside have caught fire and are burning as we speak. The damage is estimated to run into trillions of credits and the Politburo has been recalled from an ideological meditation weekend to address the problems.
Is this the end of Vetiticean Bolshevism? The truth is, we don't know.

Povray & Stranger's FPO:

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:31 pm

And!

Could we produce a burning planet?

I used to have one like that, of a giant space teapot, crashing into a planet. (I found it on Deviant.art a few years ago.) It reminded me of smivs.

I'm just going to work on *one* thing for now, which is how to get a planet-side electrical storm to (a) just appear at all (and that's a pretty big ask, actually), and (b) make it look like an actual electrical storm (ie with some limited animation).

If you're after burning planets, a_c released an OXP called something like "QutiriIsNarShaddaa", which has a planet surface that looks like it's burning. That might have to do in the meantime.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:35 pm

I used to have one like that, of a giant space teapot, crashing into a planet. (I found it on Deviant.art a few years ago.) It reminded me of smivs.

Humph

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:47 pm

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 11:35 pm

I used to have one like that, of a giant space teapot, crashing into a planet. (I found it on Deviant.art a few years ago.) It reminded me of smivs.

Humph

September last year. Yes, that would have been the last time I stumbled upon the teapot image while perusing the dustier corners of drive D: