Pmutzu

Thank you .Just as I start fooling with meshes too. ;)

Ok I been rooting around on the web. and came across this page, It discusses the various ways of applying spherical textures . [link="http://www.vterrain.org/Textures/spherical.html"]WWW Link[/link] Now of those listed, I cannot seem to find the method that sins uses. At first I thought it was the cube method . Then again omnitect method is probably the method they use.

what I would like to do is to be able to create a sphere. in say (blender) then just apply my texture to it and remove the seams. but unfortunatly blender seems to wrap it and pinch the poles ,instead of the cross method.I am trying to find some outside method (not in sins )to wrap a texture the cross way.or what do you call that way anyhow?

Anyone know why this games uses these cross shaped textures? Reccomend some program that could view A mesh.? or anyone know what its size is? (mesh:triangles.polygons)so i could maybe build my own to work with in blender I can make seamless ,tileable textures. but I want more detail .

Yea I am to the point where I am going to make A planet template in a grid with numbers big enough to see actually rendered,. then just see exactly where it all lines up ;} once i do that i can just connect the lines on a new image and use it as a kinda transparent layer to guid me while i work these areas. hopefully this will finally rid me of this problem

Ok There was A previous post about planet textures. where we discussed how to use polar coords filter in photoshop to remove the seams from our textures. I tried this and i believe I missed something [url=http://imageshack.us][img=http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5082/planetvolcanic02clforumcg7.jpg][/url] so I shave the strips off the top and bottom of the main planet bottom. Exactly how big of strips ? since I am trying to make textures. where I can Actually

Whoops my bad. heres better sized. actually I felt that you really cant classify planets the way they currently were so am making a mod with better sorted planet types. http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/2806/screenshot7thumbfw2.jpg http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/714/screenshot8thumbxa7.jpg So what does this all have to do with sins? well i am designing planets that have properties that affect gameplay based on these assumptions so he goes some e

oh btw the night side lights in 6 have been properly aligned .

here is my island planet for my upcoming mod. finally got rid of those nasty seams. http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2244/screenshot7thumbae0.jpg http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/9278/screenshot8thumbsm2.jpg http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6109/screenshot6thumbcn5.jpg i'll post some more other planets in the future

Here are A few general rules that govern how A planet forms Planetary Atmosphere Three factors play into a gas's ability to escape the pull of a planet's gravity: temperature, molecular mass, and escape velocity (the speed a molecule needs to achieve to escape into space). Hotter, lighter, and faster particles more easily slip out of a planet's gravitational grip into space than cooler, heavier, and slower particles.(so special equipment would be needed to retain any atmosphere

Ok I know this info is somewhere, if so please point me to it. I am ready to add my new planets to the game. I went ahead and made A complete copy of uzils mod. and want to make the entity files for 4 more planet types. (no research needed) i'll try all that later. Is their A main file in the Gameinfo folder that I need to add to before I add Entity files for my 4 planets.or will they just show ?I really just want them to be choices to populate random maps or that i could just chan

make sure the planets team ownership is set and they have home planet

Ok I know this info is somewhere, if so please point me to it. I am ready to add my new planets to the game. I went ahead and made A complete copy of uzils mod. and want to make the entity files for 4 more planet types. (no research needed) i'll try all that later. Is their A main file in the Gameinfo folder that I need to add to before I add Entity files for my 4 planets.or will they just show ?I really just want them to be choices to populate random maps or that i could just change vi

Yea sorry about not posting my other comment yet but I wanted to make sense.Later on when the kids go to bed i'll sit and finish it.

This is exactly the information I needed. I found Uzils Entity files and am currently just looking at each one and getting a feel for what each entry does .with this info in mind. I am going to go ahead and make A few more Choices. and alter some of uzil's I have A few issues with the current choices . which I will discuss in the post titled "Realistic Planet types,(and their effects on colonization)" Uzil if you see this I would like to kno

K thx. yea i am going to actually add my planets to uzil's sins plus mod as i made some forest and ocean planets and 1 more toxic one

OK spent last night creating about 35 new planet textures. now I want to be able to make new random planet textures for all the planets. I do not want to replace any of the originals. what I want to do is to add new textures for sins to choose when selecting a planet. for example there are currently 2 desert ,2 volcanic,2 terran,2ice, what i want to do is add more. so that there are more than 2 of each kind to choose from. so if i were to add texture files to the textures folder. but

ok took my first foray into making new planet textures. using photoshop/lunarsphere made some textures and converted them into dds files. I went into sins textures to look at the planet textures there. and noticed all were 5.33 mb in size. so I was wondering exactly what size and configuration i need my textures to be in to be able to replace the sins ones without any problems so I would need to know preferred dimensions of the textures. If you got any sample textures I coul

Tried to look through all 200 or so comments for some info on how i would go about using these new planets in forge. If possible could you explain how to do that, I already know about editing galaxy files in notepad,would I have to add these planets to a map after I use forge?

maybe thats my problem. i keep looking for the wormhole connections in forge.

ok moved from application data into the main sins galaxy folder and all is good. thanks for the help

ok made this map. thought everything was fine. try to load it to play , and it immediatly says i am defeated. along with everyone else. I press keep playing and look to see that there is nothing there to see. no planets or stars or anything but the backround stars.

ok I have read all the posts concerning the manual text editing required to connect my wormholes that reside in seperate star systems . yet I cant seem to get it to work. from what I understand .to find out what planet is the particular one to list in the file . i count down the list of planets in each star. , for example the wormhole in star 0 is the 5th down that stars list but it is named planet 32(confusing me yes) and the wormhole in star 1 is 24th in its list and it is nam

bump

oh i mustve inadvertantly hit that button lol anyhoo that feature rocks .