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Title: About asteroid-fields
Post by: Starman01 on March 06, 2005, 11:54:48 am

Hello,

I'm planning in redoing the asteroids, escpecially I want to get new ones in the asteroid-field. I want to completly remove all asteroids in it, but I'm not sure which ones must be changed.

There seem to to be about 18 different asteroids-models in the data-package. Must they all be replaced ? And in addition, could anyone tell me what the different model are used for ?

(http://www.starman.ag5.de/pics/ast-list.jpg)

Thanks in Advance :)

Starman©

Title: About asteroid-fields
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 06, 2005, 02:42:57 pm

Each 'set' represents a group of asteroids with the same texturing. Out of those, four of the asteroids are similar.

Just take a look at the files, it should become pretty obvious.

But there were some people who were working on hi-poly asteroids, and  TopAce(?) was looking into converting Sandwich's 'roids.

Title: About asteroid-fields
Post by: Starman01 on May 09, 2005, 12:56:12 pm

Sorry for bumping this old thread up, but now I finally have time working on this issue, so I thought I make another attempt into information-gathering :)

Like WMCoolman already said, there seem to be differnent type of asteroid-sets (maybe for the grey, brown or blue asteroids-fields in FRED, or whatever the colours where :) )

With some intensive testing, I could figure that out, but what really worries me is the following :

When you destroy an asteroid in an asteroid-field, two smaller ones appear. And what I want to know, is which asteroids is "born" from which, or is it random ? Maybe that's even a code-issue to answer, but I really don't want to work on  18 (!) models just to figure out that I messed up their size.

So any information would be welcome ;)

Title: About asteroid-fields
Post by: Trivial Psychic on May 09, 2005, 02:07:06 pm

Have you taken a look through the asteroids.tbl file?

Title: About asteroid-fields
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 09, 2005, 11:46:11 pm

Maybe ast01.pof breaks down into ast02.pof (or vice versa)?

Title: About asteroid-fields
Post by: Starman01 on May 10, 2005, 12:43:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Trivial Psychic
Have you taken a look through the asteroids.tbl file?

:doh:  I forgot there is a table for it :D

Now I finally see the light, at least I have to rebuild only 9 asteroids instead of 18 (don't know what the other 9 are for)

Large Asteroids break into 2 identical medium asteroids and each medium breaks into 2 identical small ones.

Well, thanks guys, that was the insight I was looking/hope for :)

Title: About asteroid-fields
Post by: Gregster2k on May 11, 2005, 09:04:51 pm

go man go! last asteroid pack they were doing made certain asteroid fields invisible...besides, i like variety --- w00t