Trying to build our solar system

and running into some brick walls

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Hi all,

I've been busy building a map in galaxy forge that is based on earth's solar system. I'm not doing any advanced modding, nor am i intending to, beyond what's needed to adress my current problems.
So far, I have all planets and major moons in, and the game plays like a childhood dream.
However, I have a couple of problems:

1st, I can not pin the planet graphic for the gas giants down to a certain type. The game chooses at random from a couple of different types. This will not do. There is a very nice jupiter-lookalike in the game, and it can render gorgeous rings like the ones on saturn, but often its uranus that gets the jupiter model, and mars that gets the rings. meh.

2nd, I would love to see a fourth type of planet, atmosphereless rock ball, such as earth's moon. Currently i'm substituting asteroids for the moons that have no atmospheres, but i'd rather see grey rocky balls for them.

These are my problems, but other than those, the sense of scale the game provides.. it is awesome.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
not sure if you meant to type mars in the gas giants, as mars is more of a desert.

There is a very nice jupiter-lookalike in the game, and it can render gorgeous rings like the ones on saturn, but often its uranus that gets the jupiter model, and mars that gets the rings.




1 So i think you would go into PlanetGasGiant.entity and remove all but 1 of the listed meshes, and find if that's one of the gas giant you want to use. Then make a new planet, I'd just call it PlanetJupiter(or saturn).entity, and copy everything from gas giant but find the right mesh.

2 For making the moon like planet, again make a new planet PlanetMoon.entity maybe and you would probably need to make a new mesh
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You will have to create a mod with new .entity files that Kildyu has mentioned. If you also mod the GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef file with these new .entity types GalaxyForge will read it and you should be able to place your new .entity types directly.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
*cries and gives up

thanks for the replies guys
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
That's would be harder to play game in that system, because Sol System has only one useful planet (Earth) but even so this game is awary and awary in the future, long future so that mean earth is petty dead by now if you are in world of sin of solar empire, even so Sol System Sun old and tired and give up give light and heat (though Not black hole) and everyone forget them!
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Well u have plenty of volcanic and ice planets in our solar system :O Tons of moons to colonize too :) One could even say that Mars is a desert planet :O
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
lol, humility, that time is coming sooner than red giant stage. that's for sure now. thanks to us! :)
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Not to mention the Mid-Range and Outer Asteroid fields.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
lol, humility, that time is coming sooner than red giant stage. that's for sure now. thanks to us!
Yesh, yes, Red Giant Stage for our sun, you are right Earth will be dead soon, much sooner than one think, thank to us. Yes, yes, we are very mean to earth.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
I noticed that a star represents a single galaxy (When viewed from all the way out) I was wondering if its possible to place multiple stars in a single galaxy?