Re: Expanding Atmosphere Types
How else would you do binary stars? There isn't a whole lot of room to place them far apart.
The planet temperatures do get colder as the planets get farther away from the star, based on type even (in FQM anyways). Its a nice geometric formula, with distance^2 instead of the silly distance used in stock:
Name := Formula Planet Terr Temperature
Formula := MAX(-240, 100 - ([%HexDistanceToCenter%] * [%HexDistanceToCenter%] * 3) + Random(-50, 25)) + (([%NumberOfStars%] - 1) * 50)
Name := Formula Planet Ven Temperature
Formula := MAX(-240, 360 - ([%HexDistanceToCenter%] * [%HexDistanceToCenter%] * 3) + Random(-50, 25)) + (([%NumberOfStars%] - 1) * 50)
Name := Formula Planet Moon Temperature
Formula := MAX(-240, 80 - ([%HexDistanceToCenter%] * [%HexDistanceToCenter%] * 3) + Random(-50, 25)) + (([%NumberOfStars%] - 1) * 50)
Name := Formula Planet Ice Temperature
Formula := MAX(-240, 20 - ([%HexDistanceToCenter%] * [%HexDistanceToCenter%] * 3) + Random(-50, 25)) + (([%NumberOfStars%] - 1) * 20)
Name := Formula Planet Gas Temperature
Formula := MAX(-240, 40 - ([%HexDistanceToCenter%] * [%HexDistanceToCenter%] * 3) + Random(-50, 25)) + (([%NumberOfStars%] - 1) * 25)
Compared to the lamo (excessive) stock formula:
Name := Formula Planet Temperature
Formula := IIF([%HexDistanceToCenter%] <= 3, 500 - ([%HexDistanceToCenter%] * 100) - Random(0, 100), IIF([%HexDistanceToCenter%] >= 7, 0 - ([%HexDistanceToCenter%] * 20) - Random(0, 50), Random(-50, 50))) + (([%NumberOfStars%] - 1) * 100)
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