Asteroid Rings

[David E. Gervais]

Hi there,

In SystemTypes.txt you often see more than one planet with the same 'position' (ie Ring 7 might have 2 planets assigned to it.) The game seems to be smart enough not to place these planets in the same hex, so simply add a bunch of Asteroid objects and assign them the same Ring #. In the example below Object 12 is an asteroid field that will be randomly placed in Ring 5. Simply Copy this data a bunch of times to 'mostly' fill the number of hexes in the target ring. And change the Obj ##. So if you wanted ring 5 to be filled with asteroids create Obj 12 to say 32 and add it to a new System type.

Code:

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Obj 12 Physical Type                             := Asteroids

Obj 12 Position                                  := Ring 5

Obj 12 Stellar Abil Type                         := Normal Asteroids

Obj 12 Specific Stellar Obj Name                 := Any

Obj 12 Size                                      := Any

Obj 12 Atmosphere                                := Any

Obj 12 Composition                               := Any

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I hope this helps, At least that is how I see it could be done. Also, I wouldn't 'Fill' the entire ring, if the game does a search for 'empty' hex in a Ring and keeps finding only asteroids the game might hang while doing the system generation.

Cheers!