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Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:47 am**

Awesome planet texture is awesome.

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:16 pm**

Sendraks wrote:
Awesome planet texture is awesome.

Ah, the Department of Redundancy Department is at work.

Posted: **Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:35 pm**

@ Cmd. McLane - Glad you like it.

It was Ahruman's idea and code for the Parameters bit, and I expanded it to do the exclusions.

@ Kaks - Thanks for the code fix, but it was already implemented via _ds_'s suggestion.

@ Sendraks - Thanks!

Posted: **Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:37 pm**

Another planet idea.

I don't know if this is possible to do: a tidally locked planet, so one side is always in night. No visible rotation.
The day side can be normal but the night side would have thousands/millions of lights etc.
It could only be a massive industrial of some sort.

Anyway, just a thought.

Regards

Posted: **Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:33 am**

I like it El V, but I don't currently alter the planet's rotation axis, so it wouldn't work unfortunately. Great idea for a Famous Planet though - Paging Mr. pagroove!

Posted: **Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:03 am**

Cmd. Cheyd wrote:
I like it El V, but I don't currently alter the planet's rotation axis, so it wouldn't work unfortunately.

You wouldn't need to alter the axis, only the speed. Which is perfectly possible with the rotational_velocity-key in planetinfo.plist.

And can of course also be done independent of System Redux.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:35 am**

New Planet... Should be finished... I may make a few tweaks depending on feedback here, but I think it's about done...

Introducing Poor Agricultural #3 - Arakkis / Tatooine inspired.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:43 pm**

Very pretty - in a harsh and unforgiving sort of way!

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:46 pm**

Wow. Pretty!

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:47 pm**

Thumbs up!

Cheers,

Drew.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:14 pm**

Looks very believeable

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:47 pm**

As in screenshots. Excellent

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:21 pm**

El Viejo wrote:
I don't know if this is possible to do: a tidally locked planet, so one side is always in night. No visible rotation.
The day side can be normal but the night side would have thousands/millions of lights etc.
It could only be a massive industrial of some sort.

Alternatively, only a thin ribbon on the edge of night is inhabited because it is the only places where the temperatures are feasible.

It would be a great place to put a energy collector satellite in geostationary orbit

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So many possibilities in the OOniverse

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Posted: **Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:30 pm**

ovvldc wrote:
It would be a great place to put a energy collector satellite in geostationary orbit ;).

How exactly do you plan to achieve geostationary orbit around a tidally locked planet? That would require using either active stationkeeping or a Lagrange point, either of which you can do regardless of the planet’s rotation.

Posted: **Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:44 pm**

Hi Cmdr Cheyd,

Hope this project is still going on? Very much looking forwards to it!

Alas, the system redux java script gives me a deprecation warning though all systems ingame still seem nominal:

[script.javaScript.warning.ooliteDefinedError]: ----- JavaScript warning ("System Redux 1.1 beta" 1.1): The function Planet.setTexture() is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Oolite. Use planet.texture = 'foo' instead.
[script.javaScript.warning.ooliteDefinedError]: ../AddOns/Oolite Extended Main Data V0.8.oxp/Scripts/SystemRedux.js, line 101.

The lines 97 to 108 look like thus:

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this.homePlanet = function()
{
        if (oolite.compareVersion("1.71") != 1) {

                system.mainPlanet.setTexture('home_planet' + (((system_info[galaxyNumber * 256 + system.ID] & 0xF000) >> 12) + 1) + '.png');
        } else {
                var radius = system.mainPlanet.radius / 2560;
                var type = (system_info[galaxyNumber * 256 + system.ID] & 0xF000) >> 12;

                system.addMoon(type + "planet" + (radius.toFixed(0) - 11));
        }
}

This under "1.74" trunk, SVN 2717.

Cheers

L

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