[mjn.mixael]

I finished a few more, including a gas giant. The gas giant is what really shows off the weird tilt-spin/lighting. I'll deal with it if it's not adjustable, but it would be handy to be able to tweak the look of it.

[Luis Dias]

You could handwavexplain it with how planets in your universe are all tidal locked to their stars...

[Axem]

Changing the lighting would be a no-no.  I render the models with the render tech room model function, which has no lighting controls, just rotation controls.

[Luis Dias]

can't you hack the camera placement coordinates?

[mjn.mixael]

can't you hack the camera placement coordinates?

Might be able to do that using $closeup pos: in ships.tbl... I'll have to test that when I get home.

[Luis Dias]

It won't solve the tidal lock appearance though... but if you can modify the rotation axis and do that it would be the solution.

[Axem]

Oh, you know what. I might be able to fix the tilt actually. I make all the rendered objects tilt a little bit down because with ships having an edge-on only view is kind of boring, but I can see with planets that its not a good thing to have. I can definitely add more config options for that.

Light position though... maybe not still. 

[mjn.mixael]

If I can move the "camera" with $Closeup pos: and I can alter the rotation angle (tilt), then I could conceivably cheat the light. Essentially, I'd move the camera to match the light source location (which seems to be straight up), and then alter the rotation tilt based and model orientation based on that.

Of course that all assumes that $closeup pos: moves the camera as intended and doesn't mess with the light source at all... which is a fact I'm not counting on.

[mjn.mixael]

Yeah... $closeup pos: doesn't do what I had hoped. But, I just had another idea.. I could set the rotation to 0 in the script and create rotation in the POF and then tilt the planets... BOOM.

I'll do that next, but for now.. planets with slower rotation, variable size.. and RINGS!

[niffiwan]

wow, looking awesome guys 

[mjn.mixael]

Suck it FSO. Tilted rotation. 

[CommanderDJ]

This is unbelievably cool.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Damn wizards. They're everywhere these days! (Not that I'm complaining )

[Rodo]

Oh god! first time I see this awesome piece of work. So cool!!!

[fightermedic]

how could i miss this?
this is as awesome as it gets!

[mjn.mixael]

My team and I have continued to build our system. This tool has greatly helped us flesh out BtA's setting. I don't know if I could have made Antares feel more alive without this one. Anyhow.. here's a few examples of neat things we've got going.