Giant Suns?

oZed

I’ve been experimenting with giant sun for the past half hour and have come up with two problems, first which i suspect is a texture thing are the spines ie here and here these which as you can see could look better. Next is when you are right near the sun and this happens ie. here and here i suspect this second problem is from some sort of limit, any help would be apreciated. has anyone even bother to do this before?

Ozed.

Unib5

How far away from the sun are you?

Kremit

from the first two images, it looks like you might want to increase the number of spines? As for the second set of images, it looks like either the size of the sun, or the size of the exclusion/death zone, is not set correctly in the .ini files…

data\solar\solararch.ini

[Solar]
nickname = custom_sun
ids_name = 60201
ids_info = 60202
type = SUN
DA_archetype = solar\suns\sun.sph
mass = 1000000
solar_radius = 10000
shape_name = NNM_SM_SUN

data\solar\stararch.ini

[star]
nickname = cust_blue_sun
star_glow = blue_starglow
star_center = blue_starcenter
lens_flare = hex_rainbow_lens_flare
lens_glow = default_lens_glow
spines = blue12_spines
intensity_fade_in = 0
intensity_fade_out = 0
zone_occlusion_fade_in = 1.000000
zone_occlusion_fade_out = 1.000000
radius = 10000

inside your system .ini file:

[Object]
nickname = Ew07_Sun (name of sun)
pos = 0, 0, 0 (position on x,y,z)
ambient_color = 255, 255, 255 (r,g,b color values)
archetype = custom_sun  (nickname in solararch.ini)
star = cust_blue_sun (nickname in stararch.ini)
atmosphere_range = 20000
ids_info = 66155

[Zone]
nickname = Ew07_sun_death
pos = 0, 0, 0
shape = SPHERE
size = 20000
damage = 10000000
visit = 128
sort = 99.500000
density = 0
relief_time = 0

Note the atmosphere_range and size of death zone is bigger than the radius. It should at least be the diameter of the sun, not the radius, in order to have the best visual effect from around the sun.

The spine values are defined in the stararch.ini… if you need more than 12, you’ll prob have to make a custom entry with however many spine = …. lines as you need spines. Unfortunately, I can’t really make sense of those spine = lines so I have never used custom spine values.

NeXoSE

In my memory, i only got this problem when i increase the sun to a super large size(big than x10 or x20). Maybe paste your sun code there will gives some helpful idea.

Goulash

While i agree there’s something not quite right close up to a sun, it begs the question, would you be alive if you were that close? Why not just do some graded radiation which peaks at 1 mil damage about 10k from the sun? Far more realistic and you don’t have to fix a problem that isn’t really there

Quarks

Have you also used a larger .sph model for that sun? Or have you only increased the texture parts in StarArch.ini?