FQM Quadrant Shapes

[Fyron]

Hmm... if I stick to 2 engineered arms, I can make them actually have some thickness.

Large:


Medium:


Due to the bulge in the center, the small often doesn't get much in the way of an arm. C'est la vie.

[Raapys]

I think they're good, especially the large one. Would it be possible to thin out the center without messing up the WP lines? Would be neat if the arms went even further 'around' the center.

Even if that doesn't work, they're still cool as they are. Looks like a broken web.

[GuyOfDoom]

I like almost all of them. The shapes give a lot more versitility to the galaxies you can create. Awesome job all around Fyron.

[Fyron]

Spiral galaxies exhibit a dense cluster of stars in the middle, which is what I was seeking to implement.

I thinned out the cluster a lot from the original setup I was testing, so that the smaller quadrants would have less in there and more in the arms, while the larger quadrants would still have a dense cluster. There are only 13 fixed system positions in the center; the rest are generated by the spirals themselves. Here is an example of the Small quadrant:

[Kamog]

Is it possible to make a 255-system spiral quadrant?

[Fyron]

Probably not. 255 systems is a massive jumble of systems on SE5's tiny map.

[mrscrogg]

I think you already have that in the grid galaxy with 255 systems it looks like the board from the game show "Consentration" before they turn squares over { did I just date myself ? }

[cshank2]

Mmm, FQM. Favorite SEIV mod, now with the goodness of SEV.


Thanks, Fyron.