FQM Beta 6 + Website

Atrocities · #1 March 5th, 2007, 05:19 PM

Can stars have rings? (not ring worlds)

Fyron · #2 March 5th, 2007, 09:47 PM

In reality, no. In SE5, nothing prevents you from making a ringed star model.

Spoo · #3 March 6th, 2007, 02:52 AM

Some stars have disks.
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_star

Fyron · #4 March 6th, 2007, 03:23 AM

Hmm... interesting.

Fyron · #5 March 6th, 2007, 04:34 AM

I've decided to rescale stars so they have more realistic sizes. Since green isn't realistic, I've just made them the same as yellow. What do you think?

Full size link.

mrscrogg · #6 March 6th, 2007, 09:25 AM

Fyron , I just hope all of your fantastic visual effects are being fowarded to the Captain for the Balance Mod { as long as he approves }. As of right now that's the only version I will play of SEV - Thanks

mrscrogg · #7 March 6th, 2007, 09:32 AM

Can the suns be made to give off small solar flares from their surface ? - making them more realistic ? How about actually showing a solar flare wipe out a planet or solar system or a star go nova a nd take out solar system ?

henk brouwer · #8 March 6th, 2007, 01:45 PM

Fyron:
Looks good.
Any chance of adding a few huge red giant stars?

Also, I guess the red star you have in the screenshot is a red dwarf? if so, it could be a bit smaller, some of those stars are actually not much larger than the planet jupiter, (not all would be that small though):

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publ...ar.html?332005

Another nice site that compares planet and star sizes (to put things into perspective):

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Fyron · #9 March 6th, 2007, 03:04 PM

Well, to be scaled properly, the blue stars should really take up the entire system. Gotta make some compromises.

I can make the red stars a little smaller, but I don't want to make them too small. New scale chart is up.

I was working on red giants last night. As you can see, they are big enough to swallow a few of the inner planets. hehe

For reference, I have put up a blue star solar system.

Baron Munchausen · #10 March 6th, 2007, 07:49 PM

Yeah, since stars' descriptions say they are 'large' or 'small' or whatnot, they really ought to be different sizes. A red giant or two that takes up half of its system might be cool. I like the neutron star idea, too. That would be the size of a planet, taking only one hex, and close to black, but surrounded by a faint, weird purple 'ultraviolet' glow. Any planets in a neutron star system would be 'blasted' clean by the supernova that caused the neutron star, of course. No atmosphere. The closer ones might be only asteroids.

Even better, can you improve the 'wisps' of gas/dust that are swirling around black holes? They look like sponges swirling around in a bathtub in stock. They need to be elongated in the direction of the swirling. If the SE5 graphical engine can do trailing smoke from damaged ships, it can do these wisps of gas/dust properly, too.