Expanding Atmosphere Types

[Fyron]

Baron Munchausen said:
Might it be possible to do what we discussed eons ago in the beta forum -- make non-breathable atmosphere impose a maintenance penalty instead of a space penalty? That makes far more sense. Especially if you can have it affect population maintenance as well as facility maintenance.

Not without new functions, like "Get_Planet_Atmosphere_Type" or "Get_Planet_Is_Domed".

[Kasdar]

Isn't there an Is_Planet_Domed function? I believe I saw it in the modding documentation.

[Fyron]

It was added circa 1.58, after 9/15.

[Kasdar]

ah my eyes were not working I thought the post was dated yesterday oh well

[Fyron]

For those interested, the original discussion concerning atmosphere types has been resurrected over on se5.com, with certain usurpation of stock-type texture creation into a more broad array of texture types... ahem.

http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/4644

[MasterChiToes]

Does the Picture Index for AtmosphereTypes mean anything? It looks like there's a rough correlation between the "five columns" in Planets.bmp but it also looks like that correlation was basically discarded.

[Fyron]

It determines the game setup icon used from Pictures\UI\Bmp_AtmosphereTypes.bmp.