Editing Suns
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The txm file is a texture file isn’t it?
Would we be able to say, inject a sun texture from say on the web, into it?
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Yes, but it looks ugly
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Ok, are there any mods with really awesome looking suns I can look at for clues?
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Plasmafire?
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i dont really like the sun textures in plasma fire…. there awesome to look at if you not moving, but when you move around it looks really odd. i think thats why they are the way they are already… if you know what i mean… lol
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Would it not be possible to create a sun as you can create planet models and attach hardpoints to them etc?
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It is possible, but try it, you’ll see; it’s darn ugly
Oh, also, only actual stars shine through nebulae. Anything else gets obscured completely.
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Any improvements to the suns that you would recommend then friendly fire?
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I guess it depends what you’re looking for. Some people just want suns without any kind of streak or special shape, just large glowing balls (from a realistic perspective); others want nearly funk stuff that feels like it’s out of a rave.
What are you looking for?
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Something cooler looking, lemme just show you some form of example.
Well, I would like to show a suns dark spots as well as just light, the only possible way I could think is texturing, but as you said that looks ugly.
This is the closest possible image I can find that shows dark spots on a sun, although I would guess it’s not possible to get this EXACT look, just to give you an impression of what I seek.
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What you’re asking for would be very hard to do no matter what method you’d use. I guess a flat texture would give you the closest result, but it wouldn’t be animated and it looks VERY bad whenever you start moving.
ALEs would give the second best result, but they are very difficult to pull off, especially for a complex effect like this.
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As I said, I know I couldn’t get anything exactly like that …
Just the basic of the darker spots and stuff in it, but never mind I guess, the engine is obviously limiting me in this particular endeavour.
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FL does support animated textures…
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Yes, but in TXMs? Remember stars aren’t using MATs with material entries, they’re just TXMs with Texture nodes.
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Now that would surely be a cool sun to see and dive into
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Oh? Do enlighten us Mr Solurus
PS: Hilarious signature SolCommand
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