what do you meen make them look like real planets i can help but what does make them look like reall planets meen

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Edited by - Micro Mod Makers on 7/25/2007 11:56:24 PM

He means he's doing a mod about the solar system so all planets need to look like the ones in our solar system, earth, mars, jupiter etc

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Are you willing to put them all to scale? Because if so, you'll never fit them in a sole system. And even if not to scale, the distances would have to be way off to reproduce our actual Solar System.

First, when I said I would like them real, yes that means that I would like them to look like the real planets at far as the .mat file goes for them.

As for the to scale part, I know it would be hard to place all of it in one system, and I should have made this more clear, but what I was trying to say is that I would like it to be as realistic as possible, not something where Mars looks like a giant moon to Earth, or the astroid belt looks like rings on Jupiter. Does that make sense?

The first part is not a problem, in other words getting the planets to look right. The scaling is an issue if you want to put it all in one system, when you consider the sizes of Jupiter and Saturn and the distance they are from each other. How about split them up, divide the solar system into four parts or something along those lines.

Further thought on scaling, How about making all the other objects in the game 50% smaller? Wasn't there a mod that did that some time ago?

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actually, after great thought, it would be more real to have te planets and everyhting to scale, so if that means that it has to be devided up, so be it. But the question I want to know is, how many divisions is it going to take?

That's a matter of personal choice, i have them split up so each major planet has its own system except the Moon which is in orbit round Earth. By doing it this way, you can add in all the moons of the major planets, rings, radiation fields etc for each individual planet.

Like i said it's down to personal choice, may not work for you but works for me

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Going for a true scale would require individual systems (1 per planet), and you'd often have to make the planet be outside of the playable zone (otherwise it'd take up the whole system). This is especially true for planets such as Jupiter.

FLCE had to make the ships a lot smaller too. I think the biggest ship was 200m long, while the smallest was around a meter long (in-game). This made Earth around 500k of diameter, with the sun being a few billion meters away. (My numbers might be off, it's been a while I didn't look at the code)

We couldn't even fit Jupiter in a system, so we made the system revolve around Europa and you could see Jupiter in the background.

Well, I can understand their size, but what about just down-sizing just the planets. I don't mean to a small point, but still make them so their going to fit? As long as their all still on a scale of Whatever:1.

Edited by - alfa_astrix on 7/19/2007 11:27:30 PM

so any word on this?

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WTS has a splited solar system, where Jupiter + Saturn got their own system.

I personally love the WTS version, and am basicly asking for those kind of mat files, on planets that are the actual size or to a just scale of that of Earth.

Is there any news if someone may be helping with this?