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Mod Request: Planet earth as a model

fullmetaljackass

Date: Thursday, 20.06.2013, 18:06 | Message # 1

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Hello,

Space Engine is one of the best programs i´ve ever used.

There is just one thing i would really, REALLY like to see in SE:
It would be great if you could teleport an "earth clone" or "sun clone" to any place you like, just like you do with spacecrafts.
So I need an earth model, that i can select in the spacecraft menu.

The reason i want this is, when i showed the program to my little son he was blown away, but i noticed that he didn´t realize the size of some objects (e.g sun). Numbers really don´t work here.

So with this mod i would position myself right next to for example betelgeuse biggrin

and teleport earth. just for size comparison and the "WOW effect".
Unfortunately i am unable to make this mod myself, but i think it can´t be too hard.

What do you guys think. Can anybody help ?

thanx

Edited by fullmetaljackass - Thursday, 20.06.2013, 18:08

DoctorOfSpace

Date: Thursday, 20.06.2013, 18:52 | Message # 2

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I could port you a model of the Earth for space engine, but it won't have an atmosphere, aurora, or anything else.

The issue with models that big, especially if you had a model as big as the sun, is it affects things visually and causes all kinds of glitches.

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fullmetaljackass

Date: Thursday, 20.06.2013, 19:06 | Message # 3

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Quote (DoctorOfSpace)

I could port you a model of the Earth for space engine, but it won't have an atmosphere, aurora, or anything else.

thanks for the quick reply.

Since it´s only purpose is size comparison, a simple sphere with the exact diameter would do the job i think.
Earth texture would be nice, though.

Could you do this for me ? I would really like to try it.
thanks

neutronium76

Date: Thursday, 20.06.2013, 19:29 | Message # 4

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For size comparisons with gravity interactions you could use universe sandbox. you can place as many earths as you like beside betelgeuses, denebs, eta-carinaes and see what happens smile

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DoctorOfSpace

Date: Thursday, 20.06.2013, 19:53 | Message # 5

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Quote (neutronium76)

For size comparisons with gravity interactions you could use universe sandbox. you can place as many earths as you like beside betelgeuses, denebs, eta-carinaes and see what happens

This may be a better option for now

Quote (fullmetaljackass)

Could you do this for me ? I would really like to try it.

I tried scaling up the death star model but it continually crashes my copy of SE after a certain point. Even a simple untextured sphere seems to crash the program for me once it gets about the size of the moon or larger.

I resized the Death Star to 10x that of Earth, brought it to Earth and this happened.

Then the program froze on me. I am not sure if this is due to the engines limitations or if some mod I have is causing the issue.

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fullmetaljackass

Date: Thursday, 20.06.2013, 20:19 | Message # 6

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Quote (neutronium76)

For size comparisons with gravity interactions you could use universe sandbox. you can place as many earths as you like beside betelgeuses, denebs, eta-carinaes and see what happens

I like universe sandbox very much, but i love space engine. And i think this would be an awesome feature.

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I resized the Death Star to 10x that of Earth, brought it to Earth and this happened.

Wow thanks fpr your effort.
Maybe an earth size model really needs to much resources.

What about exporting earth and creating a procedural "clone_earth" somewhere in a different location. With a script you can set the coordinates to your current position.
Would this work ?
I tried to create a new planet, edited the universe.cfg and made a new planet *.sc file.
When i search for the planet it shows up but when i want to go there it says "object not found"