@ MrKorx question on the HOMEPLANETQUALITY of 50 Asgard base Quality is 10 when I start the game Planet Quality is 11 is this right ???

Good question, shouldn't it be 16?
I'll look into that and do some testing. Probably , the whole ability isn't really implemented as supposed.

Yes, i believe so.

The pool of StarTypes is being randomized during setup. If, say, the file itself has the standards from 0..7 PLUS some modded 8,9,10,11, etc. It would apply a parser function based on available resources to distribute. Knowing habitables should always be either White or Yellow, it is also possible that the code verifies that the homeworlds do endup around such stars. Purples being special, too. Odds being that rogue assets are factored by proportional elimination, bigger maps raise the probability of more new types being present.

The only way to enforce X numbers of #8,9,10... stars in any games would be to use a custom map - presuming the code itself counts them as favorable habitability conditions or not (might be the case, since #7 is valid for the Terran Sol system).

Customplanets.xml files work differently though as they pick only the given texture (ex: a "_DarkStar.png", such as above) and most probably slaps it on conventional type 0 or 1 framework referenced with what's beneath. You'd see the re-coloring but basicly still a hidden Yellow_White master code-driven tag for any.

@Nasty

The HomePQ ability seems to be inactive somehow, the game does not apply the bonus, no matter what value I set

Maybe, it only gets applied when researched a connected tech? I'll check that... I suspect sth, since HomePQ also belongs to the newly added abilities, which get never assigned in raceconfig

... No success, HomePQ is definately inactive.

Indeed the newly added HomePlanetQuality tag seem to be related to some specific buildings only! Beats me why it could be called an *ability* and even auto-saved into a custom race file though.
Shoots, another obstacle to our mod_controlling needs.

Yeah it would be nice to be able to use it,..



strange actually !!!

Nasty

Nope, even a PI with HomePQ assigned does not work.

I'm having some days off at the lovely baltic sea, so no mod dev till next Monday evening.
The forecast predicts nice beach weather

PS:
I was experimenting with 4 unique terraincolorschemes & planetdescriptions
v1.9 is targeted about next but one weekend.
I was hoping, that I could include some planet textures in v1.9, though I have no real clou how much time it takes to make some.
Thanks Sir Nasty anyway, I know you'll make them nicely

here another planet eyelands Two





I been working on them,.. I`ll start posting some screen shots too

let me know if the way i posted this shot ok or not.


Guess I need to get my but in gear LOL

Mrkorx are we all set on rings now ???

Planet: X, Y and Z on it`s way

Yes the rings are fine now, maybe a little colortuning, eventually, not sure yet.
I want to create a sort of foggy/gloomy or liquid space effects like species 8472
It's really a pity, that special worlds don't really work in homesystems.

Do we want to use a svn repo for the mod? At the moment the mod is locally under svn anyway, but I have an unused repo @ i-mod. Thus, you guys would be always up-to-date

Planet Lights







this one seem to have a statue of a YOR!!


SnownHeart

It's funny how fractals and what a few mirroring tricks can do to planets, isn't it, Nasty?

Eyelands Two looks particularly Natural, and the Lighted one almost seemed to be like a Borg sphere, at first look!

Here another Planet


The Planets are allot !!!Harder to do.



I want to do a few more EyeLands Planets

I think the Planet Lights would go good with your Black out Sun !!

Well I`m going to try an Green Planet now for the jungle.

Nasty

If i read this well and it actually is what i think it should be... i may have some use for the basic 'process' itself if you don't mind sharing the technicalities with us.

Since by going from DA to TA surfaces, the new function took huge leaps in somehow different scheme definitions. And yet, the whole RAW overlay and its particular greys as they apply to the actual images are still a mystery to me.
The RGB ranges must mean desert or artic regions, jungle or oceans and what else. But we simply do not have any direct reference for the exact tile(s) affectation as they are declared in the code & linked to the UI.

So, MrKorx... please do explain what you may discover. X-Worlds planets will necessarily have to be converted to TA standards (in fact, that work has already started - but i'm running blind on all cylinders!) and without the bottom line on the known facts, the whole task (there is 39 Homeworlds and a series of random to convert) would possibly be 500% more complex than it should. (Mind you, i DID ask for some help directly from SD coders in a number of threads and ways... without any luck or solid results).
Your work on this aspect of planet representations could do it for me instead.

@Nasty,
Ya know, man... any of these planets (btw, are those made with Flaming Pear's LunarCell plugin? With, some special Nasty touch added?) really belong in a special SirNastyofTang Mod file of their own!
Gather up all of that nice work, pick your favorites, fine-tune, introduce diversity and multiple coloring themes and zip it all to upload in the library for anyone to get right here - keeping, of course, the Asa stuff away for MrKorx exclusively.

yes I have added a Nasty touch to them!!!Flaming Pear's LunarCell plugin? is correct !!!

I hope MrKorx Likes the green planet atleast I though it came out pretty Good

Nasty

Hi @ all,
I'm back from the baltic see :NOTSURE:
Nice planets sir nasty, I really like the green one.
More to come later, after work.

Phew, 33°C(92F) in city, 47°C(117F) in office, what a day.

@Nasty

After carefully glancing at the screenshots, I'm really impressed, all of them look fantastic. Great work, I appreaciate it very much, which gonna lead to a special honour for you ingame--just have had an idea :LOL:

@Zyx

I'll keep you informed with terraincolorschemes an planetdescriptions, but I need some more time to play around with. Reason: 5 days of pure lazyness behind
I also plan to update the i-mod wiki accordingly

Next version will include unique starbasemodels and probably asteroidbasemodels as well, I'll just see tomorrow, if it works out as intended. All the Models are done with default parts

Unique starbases are not possible. The game seems to only read SB shipcgf with a S0_ prefix, eg. S12_EconomyStarbase.shipcfg get ignored and a fallback to default S0_ occurs
Meaning you can do different SBs, but they apply to all races.

I believe this to be true for the asteroidbasemodels as well

any ways I`m uploading what planets I have done for you to look @ MrKorx (tomorrow!!)

Nasty

uploaded the file MrKorx @ I-Mods

Nasty

here a purple sun



Nasty

Sorry MrKorx could not get the file to upload

Nasty

Thaks very much

Sir Nasty, would it be possible that you add some polar caps to the planets? I relly like them, I think the quality/resolution is good, may be a slight increase in filesize? Not sure

BTW, now after putting them in, I like the rings in your post #139

To better identify the various textures, here is a screen