Edited

Nasty

any thing smaller then a 4 game crashes

Nasty

These Tilts can create a sort of "Slingshot" trajectory effect to the edited moon;

so i simply edited the test *Moon Rider* planet with those

(SatelliteSize)10.0000(/SatelliteSize)
----(Orbit)200.0000(/Orbit)
----(OrbitSpeed)0.5000(/OrbitSpeed)
----(Tilt1)-10.472(/Tilt1)
----(Tilt2)26.18(/Tilt2)

Orbit seems to cap out at the 50 maximum & so, gameplay didn't use the 200 above.

Normal tilt values were decimals (#1 was -0.010472 in fact when the default sliders were being used as they should)) instead of an integer. So i wanted to test if the actual loooooong elliptic path (AS it was animated in the map editor) could be reproduced exactly as i needed during games.

The cool thing being that this Moon was entering the Star Corona, looping back out towards its planet swinging underneath the blue_selector and on its returning path, hovered above the same blue_selector -- thus, heading at the Sun Corona for one more skimming burnt hell... Knot completed & starts all over again!! BUT, in the editor only.

Multiplying the values by 100% - had no effect and the usual boring circular path was still showing up in game.

What does it really take to force a Moon to simply react as designed?

Sadly, if this is only a show-off by coders to amuse us they might as well scrap the Tilt-S option since the game itself can't pick edited stuff (improper values or bugged process, btw) -- unless, i am missing some important information.

Meaning Planets cannot be sized BELOW 4 (which in fact, would be 4% of the Star itself *or* a fixed propertion made up of an abstract mathematic value comprehensible by the Map Editor only?)!

Arrrrgh, at least we can have Stars with 1, only.

Lotsa of other try-out & errors testing to do to understand & exploit the Editor mysterious settings since we don't actually have true help within the UI.
This utility needs a complete and solid overhaul if you ask me. It works, but it certainly should perform way better than it is.

I just want a simple spreadsheet in it, to reduce micman clicks to a reasonable level... AND, some rundown over the exact values for a number of key items.

Besides, why shouldn't it be possible to read any customplanets.xml files and insert Rings, Sizes, ownerships to a randomized map (for location & distribution reasons only) and be done with it?

Right now, all i really want to do is to create_make_edit three different maps for X-Worlds; UFOD_TFTD_APOC sort of an introduction to the Mod assets by displaying the concept all at once. Heck people could even actually PLAY on those if i'd throw in a few tactical spots and a bunch of different fleets.

As it is now, the editor would enforce me into a typing nightmare for three weeks. Let's see -- 13 races per theme, 4 to 5 planets each, room for 8 Minors maximum, some colonizable empties... yup, SD coulda made my modding life easier.

Arrrrrhgh, again.

yeah the editor does more with the moon then the game does

Nasty

Shoots!
Now, that's what i call a downer.

Please, StarDock -- fix this or else pull this splendid but useless gizmo right out the editor engine unless you can mimic the exact feature & behavior in our games.

Or even, tell us what to do to enjoy this like it should.

As I said it can be done manually it just takes a very long time 



as you can see the planets are more the 3 tiles from the sun.

this is a custom map to test mods it also has the dread lords in it that if you let come to power are very hard to beat!!!

I need to tweak it a little more but it is done for the most part

Nasty

I see the Map Image is gone wonder why I still have this account. I did Finally get the map done for the most part I`ll upload

another PIC of it soon!