SE5- Storms and asteroids.

Randallw · #1 October 8th, 2006, 01:55 AM

I was just highly surprised to see that the asteroids and storms actually move. The storms move about (in their sector of course) and the individual asteroids seem to rotate.

Wade · #2 October 8th, 2006, 02:07 AM

Yeah. They do that in the demo too. Nice touches.

Raapys · #3 October 8th, 2006, 08:35 AM

Neat. Any chance there's possibilities to do Stargate'ish 'send asteroid towards that planet' maneuvers with a mod?

Randallw · #4 October 8th, 2006, 08:56 AM

Well as I said they don't actually move from their sector. The storm is just milling about its area of coverage while the asteroids only show that the asteroids are moving in space. They are really small, I had to look really closely to decide if they actually move or if it just had twinkles to suggest it.

Slick · #5 October 8th, 2006, 03:14 PM

I'm thinking some smart person out there will figure out how to make the storms move around by using random events to destroy and create storms. Hopefully you could control the type of storm to make it the same; and the location, to make it move 1 sector at a time.

Kamog · #6 October 9th, 2006, 12:36 PM

Is there a way to make the stars rotate, too?
Also, it would be nice if the planets rotated in the big sector view, too.

Captain Kwok · #7 October 9th, 2006, 03:03 PM

Planets do rotate in the main system view. Zoom in a bit and you can see this. It's also possible to have stars rotate too or any system object for that matter.

Raapys · #8 October 9th, 2006, 03:35 PM

Wouldn't it be semi-neat with planets that actually orbited the sun, while say wormholes didn't? So at times the planets would be closer to the wormhole, etc. Later tech levels could include planet engine'ish facilities and even planets colliding. Obviously they still wouldn't be able to move through wormholes.

AngleWyrm · #9 October 9th, 2006, 06:14 PM

After flipping through a couple dozen different solar systems per turn, I probably wouldn't notice.

Elsemeravin · #10 October 10th, 2006, 03:20 AM

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Raapys said:
Wouldn't it be semi-neat with planets that actually orbited the sun, while say wormholes didn't? So at times the planets would be closer to the wormhole, etc. Later tech levels could include planet engine'ish facilities and even planets colliding. Obviously they still wouldn't be able to move through wormholes.

Actually the planets DO rotate around the star.
Open the system view using the 3D view.
Then bring your mouse cursor to the extreme right of the screen. It will automatically activate the Planet orbiting system