Sharing my moon making experience

Nice I like the moon idea Someone should create models to put on the moon like secret reaserch stations or some type of planetary defense.

But i just watched the video. And....... i think they move to fast. slow them down a little.

Very cool stuff, good work. The moons do move a little fast but great stuff none the less.

So what you've done is replaced the asteroid floating junk u tend to see at asteroid sites with a moon model, correct? Well not replaced but added in a new group from what I can understand.

But heres a question apart from the visual side of things do those moons do anything else. Like could you build something on them or would we have to use things like planet bonus's to simulate that part?

At first I've made the moon as resouce asteroids, so that maybe can make a special extractor(maybe a weapon? a plane shield?)
I've tried resouce type as 'Invalid' or blank, but the game load failed.
Very special failed, not minidump but load over 2~3 minutes and continue...

So, I share my method just want others maybe can develope from my idea.  

Oh i do like the idea of having moons even if its just a visual thing and you could do the samething with some station models as well if you wanted to. I was just wondering if you managed to make it into anything more than a visual thing thats all. The info on how is very useful none the less for to look at later on when i put more focus into systems.

Would it be possible to tie that to the moon(s) planetary bous present in Uzii's mod?

Sory, i can't find it out. Maybe others could.

Heres a example of how I made a extractor into a weapon.

TXT
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hitShieldsEffectSounds
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beamEffectSounds
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DamagePerBank:RIGHT 200.000000
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hitHullEffectSounds
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hitShieldsEffectSounds
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beamEffectSounds
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m_weaponIndexForRange 0


I edit the mesh to include weapon hardpoints.
Hope it helps.

can the moons run into things ... and does the colision work so ships fly around them?

Since the ships can fly into things and not get damaged I would expect that the physics is the same, so yes. Ships would normally fly around a mesh since it is a physical boundary, but this does not always hold up, especially in combat. The pathfinding is fairly good, but the physics of their collisions still needs work. I have seen four frigates stop a battleship at full speed.



Thanks for the great tutorial HammerSun!

very very nice
i think to include it into my solar-mod...its must be nice "Jupiter with moons"

Well that is just great.
Is there coming a downloadable version out soon?
It would be cool to use the moons as resource asteroids, that would be way cooler than the simple asteriods. maybe there is a way to combine those e.g. 2 asteroids 1 moon!

Greetz

Dr Zod

Funny, I made moons in mod using the same system you did, and then I came here and saw that you did the same thing!

FOURACESII:
Funny to see you here. This is how I did it.

Hammersun:
You could add Uzii's planet bonuses to those planets that you gave moons too, as I am doing the same. You need to edit the entity file, scroll to the bottom, and pick out which bonuses to use (providing you have SINS PLUS or 7 DEADLY SINS).

This way you can utilze the moons, instead of them being just for looks.

DANMAN

Thanks, after solved my weapon dummy problem, i'll go on make some try on this moon.:)




One planet type maybe use any of the mesh info, so we can't bound this moon to Uzii's Planetbonus except make a planet which same as original but only has one mesh we made.
Any other methods?



hi, just share my idea and test here, After further progress i'll consider make a MOD of mine.

Can you make solar and lunar eclipses too?