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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: Trivial Psychic on December 05, 2016, 01:01:55 am

Title: Astroids Field Rock Sizes
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 05, 2016, 01:01:55 am

Is there any way to force FRED to use only certain sized asteroids in its box fields?  I'm trying to create what is supposed to be planetary rings, but full-sized asteroids seem too big for something like that.  I'd like to specify only smaller rocks.  Is there a relatively simple way to do this, or should I open a feature request?

Title: Re: Astroids Field Rock Sizes
Post by: 0rph3u5 on December 05, 2016, 03:55:21 am

Short of creating a new asteroids.tbl that would also affect your other missions?

Using "ship-create", "ship-vanish" and "ship-rot-maneuver" you can theoretically franken-emmulate what the asteroids editor does...

Title: Re: Astroids Field Rock Sizes
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 05, 2016, 04:50:24 pm

Sounds like I'm on to a feature request then.

Title: Re: Astroids Field Rock Sizes
Post by: Goober5000 on December 05, 2016, 07:00:33 pm

Why not simply resize the POFs used for the asteroids?

This, of course, assumes that you are okay with applying the size change for every mission in the mod.

Title: Re: Astroids Field Rock Sizes
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 05, 2016, 09:11:37 pm

A global change of asteroid sizes for all missions in the campaign would not be the intention, no.  I've opened a feature request thread in the SCP forums.  It also brings up a few more upgrade suggestions.

Title: Re: Astroids Field Rock Sizes
Post by: Kestrellius on December 06, 2016, 04:17:15 am

I wish we could make bigger asteroid fields. I want to have a few missions set entirely in an enormous debris field from a planet and its moons, and that'll be difficult since you seem to only be able to have one asteroid field per mission...I'll probably have to make a skybox that has asteroids on it to add to the effect.

Title: Re: Astroids Field Rock Sizes
Post by: 0rph3u5 on December 06, 2016, 05:52:44 am

Quote from: Kestrellius on December 06, 2016, 04:17:15 am

I wish we could make bigger asteroid fields. I want to have a few missions set entirely in an enormous debris field from a planet and its moons, and that'll be difficult since you seem to only be able to have one asteroid field per mission...I'll probably have to make a skybox that has asteroids on it to add to the effect.

Multiple Fields and Field geometry are a different feature request (and one that has been around since I joined HLP).

However might I redirect your attention to this (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=88712.msg1769363#msg1769363) release from Shivan Hunter? It might serve your purpose