Devast8or's Starsphere Building Utility

? Offline · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 06:46

Hi all,

Just a quick post about this utility. Originally made by Devast8or, this utility will help you to make new starspheres. One criticism of the original program was the fact that once you created the special ini file for your new starsphere, you had to run the compiler via the command prompt which was just plain silly and annoying.

In this version of the utility, a new exe file has been added where you simply type in the name of your custom ini file, hit the button and it compiles and creates a new cmp for use in FL. New improved version made by myself and Crassicauda (she’s the brains behind all this lol)

Enjoy

Available in the editor downloads section
http://the-starport.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=23&Itemid=43

DwnUndr · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 08:46

Great stuff, thanks!

Dragnite_MU · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 13:28

Ooooo a new toy to play with

Roo Avery · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 14:24

Nice tool Gibbon. Thanks for sharing matey. Thanks to Crassicauda also

Wolfie · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 15:14

yay something new to do, i was about to be bored now, and i didnt get ritalin today

? Offline · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 16:21

Just to get you guys in the mood, here’s one i did a while back when Dev posted this on one of the early incarnations of the “new” TLR, and then promptly disappeared lol

This uses a Hubble telescope image of the Cat’s Eye nebula and resized to fit using Dev’s utility

Stormblast · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 16:29

Looks brutal.

P.S. That picture looks like a Wormhole ( A large jump hole) which I pu into my mod.

Sushi · wrote on 29 Dec 2008, 19:03

Oh, that’s really pretty. Nice job, Gibbon.

rsabatino · wrote on 30 Dec 2008, 02:47

wicked

? Offline · wrote on 7 Jan 2009, 12:13

On a side note, has anyone tried adding lightmaps to starspheres?

Wolfie · wrote on 7 Jan 2009, 14:18

i guess firekiss tried it

OPR8R · wrote on 7 Jan 2009, 16:52

why should somebody use lightmaps on something that has no dark areas (shadows)?
starspheres are illuminated in a natural way and working somewhat different than other objects in FL

IrateRedKite · wrote on 8 Apr 2009, 11:47

Made of Win.
Sure beats playing with UTF Editor for Hours.
Chucking my own Nebula In seems to be causing issues. I can’t seem to resize them. Any suggestions?

? Offline · wrote on 8 Apr 2009, 12:02

Try this. This is the way i did it for adding custom nebula backgrounds

nebula01
1
-3 0 1000

band -10 -3 1
nebula1.tga 500 500 1

Bobthemanofsteel · wrote on 20 Oct 2011, 15:21

I realise this is an old thread, but I don’t think I need to create a new one just to ask help:

I presume the ini is supposed to be in the same folder as the exes, and you just input the ini name ‘star.ini’, then hit the button?

I do that, get a command prompt window flashing for a second, then nothing. Nothing obvious happens.

Anyone got an idea of what I’m doing wrong?

? Offline · wrote on 20 Oct 2011, 15:33

GUI proggy does not work, use command-line from the folder```
build_starsphere stars.ini

Bobthemanofsteel · wrote on 20 Oct 2011, 15:53

Oh, I guess that would explain it.
Thanks!

Goulash · wrote on 20 Oct 2011, 20:11

Er yes it does. Gibbon updated it ages ago and it works fine. Make sure you’re using the 1.1 version

Bobthemanofsteel · wrote on 21 Oct 2011, 03:47

It’s in a folder calling it 1.1, but the program is telling me it’s 1.0.
Regardless, with the ability to simply right click and run CMD there, it’s so much of a big problem, for me at least.

Goulash · wrote on 21 Oct 2011, 07:01

It all runs as it should if it’s in the same folder. You simply click on the BuildStarsphererunner.exe, enter the name of the starsphere ini that you made and click on the big button at the bottom, it really is that simple. Don’t bother trying to use just the build_starsphere.exe on its own as nothing will happen. They are dependant on each other and the first exe i listed actually does what you ask. Have a look in the README as it’s all in there.