::Begin Tired Mumbling:: Yello. It's me, the Green Stars guy from a long time ago. I know it was a crappy add-on, but I wanna repost it. I know Hadrian and the others were looking for who the author of the Green Stars was, so I could get credit in UM. I'm here, now. I haven't done much with SE4 for about a year, but I dug up some other odd star files. I have odd, probably unworkable ideas for what could be done with artifically making asteroids colonizable, as I don't think there's a value for it in the game or anything. What you do is make a new planet entry in SectType, let's say Tiny. You put the graphic for a small asteroid field on it, and set it for Rock, no athmosphere. To distinguish it from normal, uncolonizable asteroids, you put the little colonizable graphic used to show population on a ship right next to the asteroids. It might work, but the problem is that if you colonized that 'asteriod', and changed the athmosphere, it would become a planet of another type. There might be a way around this, but I don't know. Another idea that I had was making small, free-floating dome colonies. I know in the UM there are these old machine planets, but these would be smaller and buildable. They would have the same problem as the asteriod idea, though. If there was a way to make new planet types (other than rock, ice, or gas), you could make a Metal planet, which would work for such things. If it is possible, the only roadblocks would be designing the graphics for ship components. To go off in another tangent again, you could make a class of ship like that, specifically a large baseship that holds population. If it has a construction yard and could build facilities, would it be a movable planet? I don't know all of the features in the UM, as I DLed a few days ago. Sorry for my rambling; I'm just really tired right now, so that is why I'm not making much sense. ::End Tired Mumbling::
1009232376.zip The Green Stars - I made this about 11 months ago, using photoshop. It ain't that good, and the SectType file is quite old. It's in the UM.
1009232921.zip Other stupid looking cyan and purple stars - I made these about the same day, but never did much with them. Just the graphics are here; Untouched (parts of stars not filled in) Versions and Normal (parts filled in) Versions.
-Loknar
[ 24 December 2001: Message edited by: Loknar ]