Updating planet meshes

[jstubbles]

That's awesome, Dreamor! I'll have to give this a shot as well

Thanks.

[jstubbles]

Hey Dreamor, there seems to be a limit to the animation keys in Layout. It's maxing out at 32767
Do you know of a way around this?

**edit**
Looks like I  found a workaround, sliding the keys in the scene graph editor.

[jstubbles]

It's nice not having those jaggy planets anymore

[GeoModder]

You... erm... created your own sphere and managed to let the game read it? 

[jstubbles]

You... erm... created your own sphere and managed to let the game read it? 

Yuppers. Just exported like a normal mesh, then the mesh name is manually entered into the solar system file to replace whichever planet you want. Works perfectly - even the planet spinning animation works.

[Mularac]

so, theoritically, we can have any model as a planet? or it has to be an sphere?

[jstubbles]

Since it's treated like any other model, I'm pretty sure it can be anything you like.

[jstubbles]

In case you haven't tried it yet - yeah, you can definitely use any mesh to replace a planet. I just tried it with Ragnar Anchorage and it worked just fine. You just plug the mesh path/name into the system file instead of the planet mesh and you're good to go.

[GeoModder]

Could be fun. You could let Ragnar Anchorage literally be a moon of Ragnar, and in the ingame astronomy/tactical system screen you'd see the station swirl around the planet when you're close enough. 

[DreamorCZ]

I have finally find a way to add the night texture part, well sort of. It is quite easy solution actually. Instead of trying to make x_night properly work on the new mesh, this texture can be added as alpha channel (with inverted color) for planet's main texture. Here is working demonstration...