Planets pic determined by Atmosphere.

[Randallw]

Does anyone here know if a planets pic is set for the entire game or if it changes when the atmosphere changes?. I know that the original pic depends on planet type and atmosphere, but I just changed the atmosphere to oxygen on about 10 planets in a game and all their pics are now water blue tinged as for all Oxygen planets.

[Karibu]

Actually, the blue color of the sky comes from carbon dioxide. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif But if I remember it correctly, planet picture changes when athmosphere changes.

[dogscoff]

Yes, it changes. You can end up with an awful lot of identical-looking planets that way. Which is silly really, considering all the extra planet pics now available in the image mod. has anyone ever produced a text file to replace the standard one in order to use all those luverly imagemod planets? If such a thing existed, it would be relatively safe to use it on modded as well as unmodded games, right? What I mean is, most mods don't mess with that file, do they? (specifically, proportions)

[Fyron]

http://fqm.spaceempires.net/

[Aiken]

Karibu said:
Actually, the blue color of the sky comes from carbon dioxide. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif But if I remember it correctly, planet picture changes when athmosphere changes.



CO2 is a colorless gaz. Blue color comes from light dispersion on a O3 and O2 moleculas.

[Raging Deadstar]

When i finish the Imagemod Planets to balance it out there will be a lot less repetition in Atmosphere changed planets http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Fyron]

Raging Deadstar said:
When i finish the Imagemod Planets to balance it out there will be a lot less repetition in Atmosphere changed planets http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Run the following program on FQM Deluxe to get a rough idea of what needs to be made to balance the planet pics out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif FQM is of course biased by semi-random amounts of moons forced to either ice or tiny, as well as some planets forced to be huge gas giants, but it is somewhat close...

http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Tools/zip/SE4mapstats.zip

[Karibu]

aiken said:

Karibu said:
Actually, the blue color of the sky comes from carbon dioxide. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif But if I remember it correctly, planet picture changes when athmosphere changes.



CO2 is a colorless gaz. Blue color comes from light dispersion on a O3 and O2 moleculas.



Sorry, I feeded false information into your eyes. Luckily someone had sharp eyes. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif I actually had to check this (http://www.why-is-the-sky-blue.org/why-is-the-sky-blue.html) , because I was so sure about it.