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Old October 12th, 2004, 05:08 AM
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Default Planets pic determined by Atmosphere.

Does anyone here know if a planets pic is set for the entire game or if it changes when the atmosphere changes?. I know that the original pic depends on planet type and atmosphere, but I just changed the atmosphere to oxygen on about 10 planets in a game and all their pics are now water blue tinged as for all Oxygen planets.
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Default Re: Planets pic determined by Atmosphere.

Actually, the blue color of the sky comes from carbon dioxide. But if I remember it correctly, planet picture changes when athmosphere changes.
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Default Re: Planets pic determined by Atmosphere.

Yes, it changes. You can end up with an awful lot of identical-looking planets that way. Which is silly really, considering all the extra planet pics now available in the image mod. has anyone ever produced a text file to replace the standard one in order to use all those luverly imagemod planets? If such a thing existed, it would be relatively safe to use it on modded as well as unmodded games, right? What I mean is, most mods don't mess with that file, do they? (specifically, proportions)
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Default Re: Planets pic determined by Atmosphere.

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Actually, the blue color of the sky comes from carbon dioxide. But if I remember it correctly, planet picture changes when athmosphere changes.
CO2 is a colorless gaz. Blue color comes from light dispersion on a O3 and O2 moleculas.
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Default Re: Planets pic determined by Atmosphere.

When i finish the Imagemod Planets to balance it out there will be a lot less repetition in Atmosphere changed planets
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When i finish the Imagemod Planets to balance it out there will be a lot less repetition in Atmosphere changed planets
Run the following program on FQM Deluxe to get a rough idea of what needs to be made to balance the planet pics out. FQM is of course biased by semi-random amounts of moons forced to either ice or tiny, as well as some planets forced to be huge gas giants, but it is somewhat close...

http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/...E4mapstats.zip
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Actually, the blue color of the sky comes from carbon dioxide. But if I remember it correctly, planet picture changes when athmosphere changes.
CO2 is a colorless gaz. Blue color comes from light dispersion on a O3 and O2 moleculas.
Sorry, I feeded false information into your eyes. Luckily someone had sharp eyes. I actually had to check this , because I was so sure about it.
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